EAST INDIA COMPANY RULE IN BENGAL

NAWABS OF BENGAL

  • MURSHID QULI KHAN 1713-1727 AD-
  • SHUJAUDDIN 1727-1739 AD-
  • SARFARAZ KHAN 1739-1740 AD-
  • ALIVARDI KHAN 1740-1756 AD-
  • SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH 1756-1757 AD-
  • MIR JAFAR 1757-1760 AD-
  • MIR QASIM 1760-1763 AD-
  • MIR JAFAR 1763-1765 AD-
  • NAJM-UD-DAULAH 1765-1766 AD-
  • SAIF-UD-DAULAH 1766-1770 AD-
  • MUBARAK-UD-DAULAH 1770-1775 AD-
  • THE COMPANY ESTABLISHED ITS FIRST FACTORY IN HUGLI WITH THE PERMISSION OF SHAH SHUJA IN 1651 AD.
  • MURSHID QULI KHAN BECAME THE DIWAN OF BENGAL IN 1700 AD.
  • BENGAL PROVINCE WAS MADE BY COMBINING BENGAL, BIHAR, AND ODISHA IN 1733 AD.
  • BLACK HOLE TRAGEDY- ON 20th JUNE 1756 AD NAWAB SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH’S SOLDIERS LOCKED UP 146 BRITISH PEOPLE IN A SMALL ROOM AND ONLY 23 WERE SURVIVED.
  • COMPANY NOT STOPED THE FORTIFICATION SO NAWAB SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH CAPTURED FORT SAINT WILLIAM ON 15th JUNE 1756 AD.
  • THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY FOUGHT BETWEEN NAWAB OF BENGAL SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH AND ROBERT CLIVE IN 23rd JUNE 1757 AD.
  • IN THE BATTLE OF PLASSEY NAWAB SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH WAS DEFEATED BECAUSE HIS MILITARY GENERAL MIR JAFAR CHEATED HIM.
  • SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH WAS ASSASSINATED BY MIRAAN (SON OF MIR JAFAR).
  • MIR MADAN AND MOHAN LAL WERE THE LOYAL GENERALS OF SIRAJ-UD-DAULAH.
  • MIR JAFAR BECAME THE NEXT NAWAB AS THE COMPANY PROMISED HIM.
  • IN 1760 AD COMPANY DISPLACED MIR JAFAR WITH MIR QASIM(SON-IN-LAW OF MIR JAFAR).
  • MIR QASIM TRANSFERRED HIS CAPITAL FROM MURSHIDABAD TO MUNGER (MUGDALPUR).
  • THE BATTLE OF BUXAR 1764 AD WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN MIR QASIM, SHUJAUDAULAF (NAWAB OF AWADH), SHAH ALAM-II (MUGHAL EMPEROR), AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
  • THE BATTLE OF BUXAR WAS WON BY A COMPANY LED BY HECTOR MUNROE (MILITARY GENERAL).
  • AFTER THE BATTLE OF BUXAR MIR JAFAR WAS ONCE AGAIN APPOINTED AS NAWAB OF BENGAL BY THE COMPANY. HE DIED IN 1765 AD.
  • ON 12th AUGUST 1765 AD MUGHAL EMPEROR ISSUED A ROYAL ORDER AND GAVE THE DIWANI RIGHT(REVENUE COLLECTION) OF BENGAL, BIHAR, AND ODISHA TO EAST INDIA COMPANY PERMANENTLY.
  • THE COMPANY ACCEPTED TO GIVE 26 LAKHS ANNUALLY TO MUGHAL EMPEROR.
  • IN 1765 AD ROBERT CLIVE ESTABLISHED DUAL RULE IN BENGAL. IT CONTINUED TILL 1772 AD.
  • JAGAT SETH WAS THE CHIEF BANKER OF BENGAL.