Undivided Sylhet district
| Sylhet (1765–1947) | |||||||||||
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| Part of Bengal Presidency (1765–1874) Part of North-East Frontier (1874–1905) Part of Eastern Bengal and Assam (1905–1912) Part of Assam Province (1912–1947) | |||||||||||
| 1765–1947 | |||||||||||
| Capital | Sylhet | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Part of Bengal Presidency | 1765 | ||||||||||
• Transfer to North-East Frontier | 1874 | ||||||||||
• Transfer to Eastern Bengal and Assam | 1905 | ||||||||||
• Bifurcation of Eastern Bengal and Assam | 1912 | ||||||||||
| 15 August 1947 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Bangladesh India | ||||||||||
The Undivided Sylhet district is a former administrative district of Assam Province (now Assam) of British India. It was formerly governed as part of Bengal Presidency until 1874, before its transfer to Assam. During the Partition of India in 1947, the ertswhile district was partitioned into Sylhet Division of then East Bengal (then in Pakistan), now part of Bangladesh and Karimganj district which remained as a part of Barak Valley region in Assam.