<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Creation of Bengal Province and Assam Province </Td> <Td> 21 March 1912 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Today part of </Td> <Td> Bangladesh India (Northeast India, some part of West Bengal) </Td> </Tr> <P> Eastern Bengal and Assam was an administrative subdivision (province) of the British Raj between 1905 and 1912 . Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West Bengal . </P> <P> As early as 1868, British administrators saw the need for an independent administration in the eastern portion of the Bengal Presidency . They felt that Fort William in Calcutta, the capital of British India, was already overburdened . By 1903, it dawned on the colonial government on the necesscity of partitioning Bengal and creating prospects for Assam's commercial expansion . The British promised increased investment in education and jobs in the new province called Eastern Bengal and Assam . </P>

When was the province of eastern bengal and assam created