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PRESIDENCY

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRESIDENCY  , an administrative unit of the

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Indian
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empire . The word is derived from the
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title of
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president or
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chief of the
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council of a
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principal factory under the
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early
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East
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India
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Company —a title which lasted until
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governors were appointed under
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act of
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parliament in 1784 . It thence came to be applied to the three
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original provinces of
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Bengal,
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Madras, and Bombay . It is now restricted to Madras and Bombay, in distinction to the
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lieutenant-governorships .

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