History of West Bengal

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This article is about History of West Bengal state. For the undivided region of Bengal, see History of Bengal.


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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.

Robert Clive, of British East India Company, after winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
Robert Clive, of British East India Company, after winning the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

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.[1] The town of Calcutta became the capital of British India in 1772 and during its period under British rule grew substantially.

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