History

For thomas more in Bengal's history before 1947, look at Bengal.

Bengal was ruled per Hindu Pala dynasty from 750 to 1161. A Dhak were eclipsed per Sena dynasty, who ruled Bengal from either 1095 to 1260. Bengal come under Islamic rule starting in the 13th century, & developed into a loaded centre of trade and industry under the Mughal Empire during the 16th century. European monger experienced arrived in the late 15th century and eventually a British East India Company controlled the vicinity per late 18th century, from which a British extended their rule over all of India.

Once Indian independence was achieved within 1947, Bengal was partitioned into preponderantly preponderantly Hindu West Bengal & predominantly Muslim East Bengal. East Bengal late became called East Pakistan, and became a independent united states of Bangladesh in 1971. In 2 October 1955, Chandannagar, a previous enclave of French India which had passed into Indian control fallowing 1950, was integrated into West Bengal state.

West Bengal State
List of political parties in the state

A capital city of West Bengal is Kolkata. A primary language of West Bengal is Bengali. Since 1977, the state has been ruled by Left Front, who repeatedly won popular elections.

Subdivisions
West Bengal is composed of Xix districts ^{[http://districts.nic.in/disdetails.asp?sc=wb]} :

Typically Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur districts are together termed when North Bengal.

Bankura Bardhaman Birbhum Cooch Behar Darjeeling Hooghly Howrah Jalpaiguri Kolkata Malda Midnapore East Midnapore West Murshidabad Nadia Purulia North 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas North Dinajpur South Dinajpur

The map of the territory may be seen [http://www.wbgov.com/e-gov/English/DepartmentFrame.asp?showPage=MapOfState/DefaultScript.asp at the official State of West Bengal website].

Climate
A climate of West Bengal is tropical. A land is mostly plains, except for the northern area, which occurs as a portion of Himalayan Mountain Range. Darjeeling, in the north is easily known for its high quality teas. At a south of West Bengal a Sundarbans delta on Ganga is a part of the globe's big river delta (other portions lie around Bangladesh). This area is illustrious for the Bengal Tiger.

Economy

West Bengal has a third big economy (2003-2004) within India fallowing Maharashtra & Uttar Pradesh. Inside terms of by the capita income it ranks 12th (2003-2004).

Culture
Bengal is one of a first ethnic hubs of India. There was the locution, "What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow". Today it's a joke because West Bengal is one of the virtually all backwards states inside India in todays world. These are a birthplace of India's merely Nobel laureate in literature, Rabindranath Tagore. The world notable director Satyajit Ray was also natural on this button. He along by using Bhanu Athaiya is one of sole deuce Oscar winners from either India, & won an Oscar for Life Period Achievement. Apart from either this, Bengal gave birth to unnumbered swell known poets & writers world health organization enriched the world literature incessantly. A bit of large members include Kazi Nazrul Islam, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Too from either West Bengal is the illustrious Indian singer around films, Kishore Kumar ( a Bengali by lineage however natural within Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India), too when the world-famous sitarist Ravi Shankar.

Famous people
In the period of independence movement, Bengal took the leading & especially militant role. Subhash Chandra Bose, who was belovedly known as "Netaji", is however considered an good example of bravery for Indian youth. S. N. Bose, FRS 1958, from whom the boson particle and Bose-Einstein theory get their names, was also a Bengali. Rabindranath Tagore also won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Gitanjali" in 1913. Amartya Sen, who won Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 is a Bengali. A more man of science of reputation from either Bengal develop been Jagdish Chandra Bose (FRS 1920), M. N. Saha (FRS 1927), P.C. Mahalanobis (FRS, 1945), S. K. Mitra (FRS, 1958) & Ashesh Prosad Mitra (FRS 1988), all Fellows of the Royal Society. Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy was a nationalistic teacher (Prof of Chemistry & a Founder of Bengal Chemical ladden polymers). A noted educationalist Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was known as a Tiger of Bengal. Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a great reformist of Bengal. Incidentally, Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered to be a Number one Modern Human of India. Around Politics , Shri Ashoke Kumar Sen was among a forevirtually all cabinet ministers of India , most remembered for existence a minister of law & justice. From either independance to 1996 , he was the parliamentarian , holding the seat for a record total of years which is eventually to become broken.

In the religious realm, Bengal gave birth to awesome Hindu sages & saints prefer Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, (a 15th century major Vaishnava leader), Ramprasad Sen (a noted Kali Bhakta & poet) and Ramakrishna Paramhansa; others include Swami Vivekananda (the virtually all famed of Shri Ramakrishna's adherent), Śrī Aurobindo Ghosh, and A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).

In the unpaid domain P.C. Sorcar was a famous magician.

Notable jock from either this state include a cricketer & previous Indian Cricket Captain, Sourav Ganguly, tennis star Leander Paes, athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar. Previous Cricketer Pankaj Roy had also been a skipper of the Indian cricket team.