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The Treaty of Allahabad 1765: How the East India Company Became a Tax Collector
The Battle of Buxar (1764) gave the East India Company a decisive military victory, but it was the Treaty of Allahabad (1765) that turned that victory into a system of exploitation. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the treaty's key terms — the diwani rights over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, the puppet Nawab of Bengal, and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II's fateful decision to grant the Company revenue collection. They explore how Robert Clive negotiated this agreement, why the Mughal emperor accepted it, and how the diwani effectively made the Company a sovereign power in India…
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