History of Chittagong
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The city of Chattogram is traditionally centred around its seaport which has existed since the 4th century BCE. One of the world's oldest ports with a functional natural harbor for centuries, Chittago
The ancient shipbuilding industry at the Port of Chittagong provided for the entire fleet of Ottoman warships of the sultans in the 17th century.
Mughal-Arakanese battle on the Karnaphuli River in 1666
Ships moored off Chittagong in the late 1820s.
US Navy sailors in Chittagong, 1944
Eastern Bengal and Assam
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Eastern Bengal and Assam was a province of British India between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West
Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1907, bordered by Bengal, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and Tibet
The British East India Company annexed Bengal in 1765, and Assam in 1838
Lord Curzon initiated the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam
Founding conference of the All India Muslim League in Dacca, 1906