The planters insisted that the peasants cultivate indigo on the most fertile parts of their land, but the peasants preferred growing rice on the best soils.

Keoladeo National Park, located in the State of Rajasthan, is an important wintering ground of Palaearctic migratory waterfowl and is renowned for its large congregation of non-migratory resident breeding birds.

The Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has launched the state's own document scanning application named 'Self Scan'. The application has been developed by the state's information technology department. This has been launched amidst the ban imposed by the Centre over 59 Chinese mobile apps.

By the second half of the nineteenth century, the movement in favour of widow remarriage spread to other parts of the country. In the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency, Veerasalingam Pantulu formed an association for widow remarriage.

The correct answer is Bangladesh. Bangladesh shares the longest boundary with India with a total boundary length of 4096 km.

Their final humiliation came in 1765 when the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam granted the diwani of Bengal - the right to collect the land revenue - to the East India Company.

At present, Bangladesh resides more than 300 – although around 100 mills are not in production at the moment – steel mills and a majority of which are manual mills however in recent years number of automatic and semi-automatic mills have increased proportionately.

Rashsundari Devi was born in Bengal and her autobiography which was written in Bengali, was the first full fledged autobiography written in Bengali language.

It flows some 1,800 miles (2,900 km) from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges (Ganga) River, after which the mingled waters of the two rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal.

Complete answer: - Land reform measures have helped West Bengal in reducing poverty.

The squatters in Seemapuri arrived as refugees from Bangladesh in 1971.

But a long forgotten fact is that Kabaddi has already been introduced at the Olympics although it was way back in 1936 at the Berlin Games. The entire credit for this can be attributed to an educational institute from Maharashtra's Amravati called Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal (HVPM).

The river ultimately empties into the Bay of Bengal through an extensive network of tributaries. Measuring up to 312,812 km² (120,777 sq mi), it forms one of the largest river basins in the Indian subcontinent, with only the Ganga and Indus rivers having a larger drainage basin.

Brahmadatta – Last king of Anga.

IISCO Steel Plant(ISP), earlier known as Indian Iron & Steel Company(IISCO) is one of the first integrated steel plants of India. The Plant started its operation as Bengal Iron Works at Kulti in West Bengal in 1870.

Heavy pressure of population is the main cause of low productivity of Indian agriculture. In 1901, 16.30 crore people were dependent on agriculture. The number has gone up to 58.80 crore. So per capita cultivable land had reduced from 0.43 hectare to 0.23 hectare.

Sundarban is a unique habitat for its rich biodiversity; above the water, mangrove canopy is home to birds, mammals, reptiles while below the water, bivalves, sponges, algae overgrow its roots. In fact, Sundarbans the world's only mangrove with tiger.