Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam was an administrative subdivision (province) of the British Raj between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West Bengal. As early as 1868, British administrators saw the need for an independent administration in the eastern portion of the Bengal Presidency. They felt that Fort William in Calcutta, the capital of British India, was already overburdened. By 1903, it dawned on the colonial government on the necesscity of partitioning Bengal and creating prospects for Assam's commercial expansion. The British
The Black Hole of Auschwitz Burned Up in Space? The Plague has No Frontiers The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams Guest of Captain Nemo The Black Hole of Auschwitz The Black Hole of Auschwitz is a collection of essays by the Italian author Primo Levi. Originally published under the Italian title "Asymmetry and Life" it has two distinct halves. The first half, "The Black Hole of Auschwitz" is a collection of essays, often prefaces to other books, which make a plea against holocaust denial. The second half "Other People's Trades" are a mixture of essays on a