History of West Bengal

History of West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ) is a state in eastern India. Prior to the partition of India in 1947 it along with what is now Bangladesh formed the Bengal province of British India.

The modern history of West Bengal during the declining years of the Mughal empire as European traders arrived initially to just to trade. But they began to have growing power over the region itself which culminated in the British East India Company gaining taxation rights in the Bengal "subah", or province, following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, when Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent Nawab, was defeated by the British.cite web
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publisher = Asiatic Society of Bangladesh] The town of Calcutta became the capital of British India in 1772 and during its period under British rule grew substantially.

ee also

*India
*Kolkata
*Bengal

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