Person

Mir Jafar

Commander under the Nawab of Bengal whom the Company installed as Nawab after Plassey in 1757.

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Battle of Plassey joined the English in a compact to replace the Nawab Scholarship & press 2
House of Commons inquiry into Clive, 1772-73 paid the sums the Commons found Clive had obtained Scholarship & press 1

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Lord Clive (essay, Edinburgh Review, January 1840), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1840. Scholarship & press
saluted him as Nabob of the three great provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa
resolved that Clive had, by means of the power which he possessed as commander of the British forces in India, obtained large sums from Meer Jaffier
History of India, vol. 8, ch. 7: The Conquest of Bengal (A. C. Lyall), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1907. Scholarship & press
entered into a compact to dethrone Siraj-ad-daulah, and to set up in his stead Mir Jafir, one of the principal conspirators

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