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Grant of the Diwani of Bengal, 1765

The Delhi emperor's grant, in 1765, to the East India Company of the administration of the revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

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  • Robert Clive 1765 assumed the Company's direct administration of Bengal's revenue Scholarship & press 1

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  • East India Company took over the revenue administration of the three provinces Scholarship & press 1

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  1. 1765 Grant of the Diwani of Bengal, 1765
  2. 1765 Robert Clive intervened in Grant of the Diwani of Bengal, 1765
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  1. History of India, vol. 8, ch. 8: The Situation in Bengal (A. C. Lyall), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1907. Scholarship & press
    Lord Clive, who had returned to India, assumed, under a grant from the Delhi emperor, direct administration of the revenue of the three provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, an office that was entitled the Diwani.
    so that the investiture of the Company with this office added the power of the purse to the power of the sword
    direct administration of the revenue of the three provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa
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