Province example sentences

The most devastating famine that occurred in India was the FAMINE OF BENGAL in 194 This famine killed thirty lakh people in the province of Bengal.A nation is therefore a large-scale solidarity … Its existence is a daily plebiscite … A province is its inhabitants; if anyone has the right to be consulted, it is the inhabitant.Bengal gradually broke away from Mughal control under Murshid Quli Khan who was appointed as the naib, deputy to the governor of the province.This was a province of Yugoslavia before its split.It also included the Italian-speaking provinces of Lombardy and enetia.Henry Fielding, a novelist of the early eighteenth century, claimed he was 'the founder of a new province of writing' where he could make his own laws.A member from Madras insisted that “the initial responsibility for the well-being of the people of the provinces should rest with the Provincial Governments”.Broadly speaking the states of the eighteenth century can be divided into three overlapping groups: (1) States that were old Mughal provinces like Awadh, Bengal and Hyderabad.As conservative regimes tried to consolidate their power, liberalism and nationalism came to be increasingly associated with revolution in many regions of Europe such as the Italian and German states, the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Ireland and Poland.A States Reorganisation Commission was set up, which submitted its report in 1956, recommending the redrawing of district and provincial boundaries to form compact provinces of Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu speakers respectively.Provinces were ruled directly by British officials who were appointed by the iceroy.These influential Rajput families claimed the subadari of the rich provinces of Gujarat and Malwa.In this province the population was overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian.All three states were founded by members of the high Mughal nobility who had been governors of large provinces – Sa'adat Khan (Awadh), Murshid Quli Khan (Bengal) and Asaf Jah (Hyderabad).With the decline in the authority of the Mughal emperors, the governors of large provinces, subadars, and the great zamindars consolidated their authority in different parts of the subcontinent.