Presidencies and provinces of British India joined Pakistan, and 3 (Punjab, Bengal and Assam) were partitioned between India and Pakistan. In 1950, after the new Indian Constitution was adopted, the provinces in India were replaced by redrawn states and union territories. Pakistan, however, retained its five provinces, one of which, East Bengal, was renamed East Pakistan in 1956 and became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. Presidencies and provinces of British India The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent. Collectively, they were called British India. In one form or
Provinces of Portugal referred to as "províncias" (). Each comarca was headed by an administrative and judicial magistrate, which represented Royal power in each jurisdiction of the country. These magistrates were, initially, called "tenents" (), later "meirinhos-mores" and finally, "corregedores". These six comarcas, with some changes, would be maintained as the principal administrative division of country until the 19th century. Around the 17th Century, the provinces were subdivided into individual "comarcas" or "correições" (), with their own "corregedor" (), and the provinces, as an administrative and civic role, began to be used as a statistical unit. Meanwhile, at the same time that its