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LURE - THRU THE AGES
Eternal India
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The Nawabs of Oudh
1722-75 A.D.
Nawabs of Bengal
1740-60 A.D
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
Alivardi
Khan
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
Mir
Jafar
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.
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.
Golconda, Hyderabad