Economic History of West Bengal

Abstract

When British dominated, the East India Company cemented its hold on the region following the Battle of Plassey in 1757, and the city of Calcutta (Present-day Kolkata) served for many years as the capital of British India (one of the many reasons for the cultural fusion we see today in infrastructure example - Queen Victoria Memorial in Kolkata). Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, West Bengal was at the forefront of the Indian independence movement. In the present scenario (2019-2020) at 'Bengal Global Business Summit 2019' started in 2015, organized by the Government of West Bengal at the Biswa Bangla Convention Centre (New Town, Kolkata) where thousands of delegates from around the world descend.