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Nawabs of Bengal 1740-60 A.D

The Nawabs of Oudh 1722-75 A.D.

Mir 1758-60 He was the commander-in-chief of the Siraj-ud-daula's army. During the battle of Plassey he sided with the British. The British made him the Nawab of Bengal in 1757, after the death of Siraj-ud-daula. When he came to the throne he had no money even to pay the soldiers of his army. He was deposed in 1760. Mir Kasim 1760-64 Son-in-law of Mir Jafar. He was the most efficient of the Nawabs of Bengal from 1756 onwards. He suppressed the rebellious Zamindars of Bengal and Bihar who had challenged the authority of the Nawab on previous occa- sions. He transferred his capital from Murshi- dabad to Monghyr. In 1764 he was defeated by the English at the battle of Buxar. Jafar

Alivardi 1740-56 He owed his accession to the throne in 1740 to a successful revolution against his master, Nawab Sarfraz Khan. He was a strong and capable ruler, his whole regime was spent in an unceasing warfare with the Maratha plunderers, whose repeated incursions caused untold miseries to the people of Bengal. At last he had to buy peace by the cessation of the revenues of a part of Orissa and an annual payment of twelve lakh rupees to them. He had no male heir. Siraj-ud-daula-1756-1757 He was the son-in-law of Alivardi Khan. He came in dispute with English East India Company. The main cause of the dispute was the additional fortification of Calcutta, which the English had undertaken. In the famous battle of Plassey in 1757 he was defeated by the East India Company troops under Robert Clive Khan

The Subah of Oudh comprised modern Oudh, Benares to the east of it, a part of the territory to its west and some districts near Allahabad and Kanpur. Saadat Khan 1722-39 : The founder of the kingdom of Oudh, an immigrant from Khurasan, was appointed governor of Oudh in 1724, he rapidly rose to power and fame. Safdar Jung 1748-54 : Son-in-law and nephew of Saadat Khan. He was appointed wazir of the Delhi empire in 1748, Safdar Jung played an important part in the contem- porary history of India. Shuja-ud-daulah 1754-75 : Son of Safdar Jung, he became the wazir of the empire and was one of the principal figures in the history of Northern India till 1775. Chronology * Saadat Khan (1722-39) * Safdar Jung

Chronology * Alivardi Khan (1740-56) * Siraj-ud-daula (1756-57) * Mir Jafar (1758-60) * Mir Kasim (1760-64)

The Nizam of Hyderabad 18th cen. A.D.

Nizam ul-mulk Asaf Jah, the representative of the Mughal emperor in Deccan, became independent during the rule of Muhammad Shah, but the authority of his son Nizam Ali was cut by the growing power of Marathas and Mysore; he obtained an annual tribute of 9 lakh rupees from the British after granting them his northern sarkars (1768): the Sarkar of Guntur was given to his brother Basalat Jang; Nizam later joined an anti-English confederacy with Hyder and Marathas; how- ever, he was defeated by Warren Hastings. After the death of Basalat Jangin 1782,Nizam surrendered Gunturto the English in 1788;Nizam joined the triple alliance of 1790 and fought for the English in the III Anglo - Mysore war; he was severely defeated by the Marathas at Kharada in 1795, Sir John Shore, the British viceroy followed a policy of neutrality in the war as per the provisions of Pitt's India Act.

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