1 天前 · Bangladesh - British Rule, Partition, Independence: During the rule of the emperor Aurangzeb (reigned 1658–1707), the English East India Company was permitted to establish its base at Calcutta (Kolkata). The British gained strength in …

Robert Clive's victory in Bengal marked the beginning of British colonial dominance in South Asia. The British goal was to increase the productivity of the Bengali economy. They experimented on Bengal's administration and economy. The results of some of …

Under the holy mask of civilizing the world, colonizers have done the unholy task of forming and deforming societies to serve their vested interests. The land mass known as Bangladesh constituted...

By the middle of the 18th century, the British emerged supreme in what they created as the Bengal Presidency, establishing themselves in Calcutta and expanding with alacrity into all of what is now Bangladesh, as well as the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam and Orissa.

British rule of Bengal contributed to the emergence of an elite class from locally-converted Muslims in the second half of the 19th century. This was facilitated by a significant expansion of jute cultivation in the Bangladesh region.

This lesson looks at how Bangladesh became an independent country after the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. It shows one of the many outcomes of the 1947 Partition of British India, and...

2015年2月5日 · The British were unlike the Mughals – they wanted more than just to extract Bengal's riches. It was their ambition to transform Bengal's economy to make it yield them much more income. To this end they combined experiences from Britain and Ireland with South Asian practices, subjecting the population of Bengal to an endless series of ...

History of Bangladesh in a nutshell. Bengal, one of the most affluent provinces of Mughal India, later became virtually independent and was ruled by Nawabs. In 1757, the British East India Company annexed Bengal after defeating Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah in the Battle of Plassey.

In 1905 the British divided what they called Bengal into two - with Dhaka as capital of the east and Calcutta of the west. But they met with such fierce resistance - led by, amongst others, the great Bangla poet Rabindranath Tagore - that they had to reunite the province in 1912.

In the courts of Bangladesh, the British have influence over the dress of judges, rules and regulations, lawyers, attorneys, etc. Bengal entered the Middle Ages during the British rule.