Bengal: The British Bridgehead
Subtitle: Eastern India 17401828 (The New Cambridge History of India)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521253307
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; India; India - History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - India; Europe - Great Britain - General; World - Colonial Studies; Bengal (India)--History; History / India; History : Europe - Great Britain - General; History : World - Colonial Studies; Asia - General; History
First sentence: Early in the eighteenth century the very diverse areas which now make up three states of contemporary India, West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, together with present-day Bangladesh, were loosely welded together under a single Governor to form the eastern wing of the Mughal empire.