West Bengal

The East India Company got Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa on 12th August,1765.

The Dual Administration System was introduced by Governor Robert Clive. Under this system, the administration was divided between the Company and the Nawab, but the whole power was actually concentrated in the hands of the Company.

The Alipore Bomb case is known as Muraripukur Conspiracy or Manicktala Bomb Conspiracy.

The ‘Nikhil Banga and Assam Jami’ at-e-Hadith was formed at Calcutta by Maulana Abdullahil Kafi in the year 1946 during the Ahl-e-Hadith Movement.

Tattwabodhini Sabha was founded by Debendranath Tagore in 1839.

Young Bengal Movement’ was introduced by Henry Louis Vivian Deozio. This movement adopted rationalism and atheism as the common denominators of civil conduct among upper caste educated Hindus. Brahmo Samaj was founded in Calcutta by Raja Rammohan Roy in the year 1828. Ramakrishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda at Belur Math in Howrah, West Bengal on 1st May,1897.

Under the Permanent Settlement agreement, the landlords were given the rights of the land as long as they paid a fixed revenue to the British Government. This agreement was made between the British East India Company and the landlords of Bengal to settle the land revenue.

Jugantar Anusilan Samiti was led by leaders like Aurobindo Ghosh, Barindra Ghosh, Bagha Jatin (Jatindranath Mukherjee), etc.

The Indigo Revolt was regularly highlighted in ‘The Hindu Patriot’ newspaper. It was edited by Harish Chandra Mukherjee and described the sufferings of the farmers.

Indigo Revolt in Bengal took place against the Indigo planters in 1859 as the farmers got no profit growing Indigo.