Regional lens · Company Rule
A commercial corporation turns revenue, armies and alliances into expanding colonial power.
Rabindranath Tagore developed Santiniketan as an educational and cultural centre that joined teaching, the arts and engagement with its landscape. Its institutions became influential in modern Indian intellectual life while retaining a design distinct from conventional colonial campuses.
On 20 June 1947, members of the Bengal Legislative Assembly met in separate groupings to decide whether Bengal would remain united and which constituent assembly its parts would join. Those proceedings are a primary record of the political process that preceded the province's division and the creation of West Bengal at independence.
Source: West Bengal Legislative Assembly — Proceedings on Partition of Bengal, 20 June 1947