James Rennell, now known as the Father of Indian Geography, laboured in Bengal and elsewhere for a period of 13 years, during which he surveyed an area of about, stretching from the eastern boundaries of Lower Bengal to Agra, and from the Himalayas to the borders of Bundelkhand and Chota Nagpur.

The family is generally divided into two branches: North Munda, spoken in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bengal, and Orissa, and South Munda, spoken in central Orissa and along the border between Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.

On 17 December 1803, Raghoji II Bhonsle of Nagpur signed the Treaty of Deogaon in Orissa with the British after the Battle of Laswari and gave up the province of Cuttack ( which included Mughalbandi / the coastal part of Orissa, Garjat / the princely states of Orissa, Balasore Port, parts of Midnapore district of West Bengal ).

Districts of Bengal ; on the south by two of the Chota Nagpur States in the Central Provinces, Rewah and some small States in the Central India Agency, and Saugor District in the Central Provinces ; on the west by the States of Gwalior, Dholpur, and Bharatpur, the Districts of Gurgaon, Delhi, Karnal, and Ambala in the Punjab, and the Punjab States of Sirmur and Jubbal.

In October 1905 most of Sambalpur and the princely states of Bamra, Rairakhol, Sonpur, Patna and Kalahandi were transferred from the Central Provinces and Berar to Bengal, while the Hindi-speaking Chota Nagpur States of Chang Bhakar, Koriya, Surguja, Udaipur and Jashpur were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces and Berar.

The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Orissa, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.

In the lowest step of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, the Manbhum area covers the present Purulia district in West Bengal, and Dhanbad district and parts of Bokaro district in Jharkhand, and the Singhbhum area broadly covers Kolhan division of Jharkhand.

Adjacent Bankura district of West Bengal has been described as the “ connecting link between the plains of Bengal on the east and Chota Nagpur plateau on the west .” The same could be said of the Asansol and Durgapur subdivisions of Bardhaman district.

The agency was bordered by the Central Provinces and Berar to the south ; the Chota Nagpur princely states to the east, which were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces and Berar in 1905 ; the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to the north ; Rajputana to the northwest ; and Bombay Presidency to the west and southwest.

Due to a change in the policy of the British Government, the Bengal Nagpur Railway, popularly known as the B. N. R, took over the northern section of East Coast Railway from Vizianagaram to Cuttack, including the Branch Line of Puri, by 23-01-1902.

The district has been described as the “ connecting link between the plains of Bengal on the east and Chota Nagpur plateau on the west .” The areas to the east and north-east are low lying alluvial plains.

Bankura district has been described as the “ connecting link between the plains of Bengal on the east and Chota Nagpur plateau on the west .” The areas to the east and north-east are low lying alluvial plains, similar to predominating rice lands of Bengal.

IUCAA arranged visitor programs for universities in Nagpur ( Maharashtra ), Thiruvalla ( Kerala ), Siliguri ( West Bengal ) and others, along with a tie-up with the Ferguson college, Pune.

* The Bengal Nagpur Railway used a saturated steam B class, a superheated BS class, and a BC class comprising B class locomotives that had been converted from saturated to superheated.

* April 14 – Indian Railways divisional organisation completed by formation of the Eastern Railway, created by amalgamating three lower divisions of the East Indian Railway ( Howrah, Asansol and Danapur ), the entire Bengal Nagpur Railway and the Sealdah division of the erstwhile Bengal Assam Railway ; the Northern Railway, created from remaining divisions of the EIR, the Eastern Punjab Railway and others ; and the North Eastern Railway created by merger of the Oudh and Tirhut Railway and the Assam Railway.

* October 1: Government of India takes over the Bengal Nagpur Railway.

* 1921-He joined the Bengal Nagpur Railway ( BNR ) as Assistant Traffic Superintendent.

The Chittagong, Dhaka and Rajshahi divisions, the Malda District and the States of Hill Tripura, Sylhet and Comilla were transferred from Bengal to a new province, Eastern Bengal and Assam ; the five Hindi-speaking states of Chota Nagpur, namely Chang Bhakar, Korea, Sirguja, Udaipur and Jashpur, were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces ; and Sambalpur and the five Oriya states of Bamra, Rairakhol, Sonepur, Patna and Kalahandi were transferred from the Central Provinces to Bengal.

Bangladesh Railway was mostly inherited from the British-established Assam Bengal railway system after the partition of India in 1947.

Earlier the East coast Railway was under the South Eastern Railway, Headquartered at the city of Kolkata, West Bengal and now it is been divided to form a new railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Darshana station came up with the Eastern Bengal Railway opening the line from Calcutta to Goalundo Ghat, in 1871.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, nicknamed the " Toy Train ", is a narrow gauge railway from New Jalpaiguri to Darjeeling in West Bengal, run by the Indian Railways.

Franklin Prestage, an agent of Eastern Bengal Railway Company approached the government with a proposal of laying a steam tramway from Siliguri to Darjeeling.

Before he was 19, he quit school and found employment with the Bengal and North Western Railway, initially working as a fuel inspector at Manakpur in the Punjab, and subsequently as a contractor for the trans-shipment of goods across the Ganges at Mokameh Ghat in Bihar.

Category: Railway stations in West Bengal

The Railway Board manages the functioning and operation of the 17 zonal railways, which includes the newly created zone of Kolkata Metro by Mamata Banerjee who was the former Minister of Railways and current Chief Minister of West Bengal.

Category: Railway stations in West Bengal

The naming scheme for " Bollywood " was inspired by " Tollywood ", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal.

However, most of the foreign trade of the Funan Empire was carried on much closer to home with India, especially the Bengal area of India.

The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Bengal Tiger.

The province of Bengal in British India was partitioned into West Bengal and East Pakistan in 1947.

During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, some British officials suggested restoring Peshawar to Dost Mohammad, in return for his support against the rebellious sepoys of the Bengal Army, but this view was rejected by British political officers on the North West frontier, who believed that Dost Mohammad would see this as a sign of weakness and turn against the British.

Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

East Pakistan (; Purbo Pakistan, ; Mashriqī Pākistān ) was a provincial state of Pakistan that existed in Bengal region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent from 1955 until 1971, following the One Unit programme which laid the existence of East Pakistan.

In 1947, the region of Bengal under the British Empire was partitioned into East and West Bengal which separated the Muslim majority eastern areas from the Hindu majority western areas.

From 1947 until 1954, the East Bengal was an independent administrative unit which was governed by the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin.

The Bengal was divided into two provinces on July 3, 1946 in preparation for the Partition of India, the Hindu majority of West Bengal and the Muslim majority of the East Bengal.

In 1955, most of the western wing was combined to form a new West Pakistan province ( which contained four provinces and four territories ) while East Bengal became the new province of East Pakistan ( a single provisional state ).

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

Lord Casey was Governor of Bengal in between his periods of service to the Australian Parliament.

In 1414, a giraffe was shipped from Malindi to Bengal.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

The Kanauj Triangle was the focal point of empire s-the Rashtrakuta s of Deccan, the Gurjara Pratihara s of Malwa, and the Pala Empire | Palas of Bengal.

However, their rule was interrupted by Marathas who carried six expeditions in Bengal from 1741 to 1748 as a result of which Bengal became a vassal state of Marathas.