International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Self Interest or Myopia? Indian regime and East India Company in conquest of Bengal

  • Author:
  • Rohit Singh
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 53 to 63

B. Tech (Electrical and Electronics), School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University Vellore, Tamil Nadu-India

Online published on 27 April, 2018.

Abstract

The conquest of the British East India Company is very much supported by the careless decision making of the Indian regime. Historians have believed that during eighteen century the ruler failed to understand the long term threat by the East India Company. Efforts have been made through this paper to examine the decisions and situations that led to the Battle of Buxar and find how the tax collection rights went into the hands of the Company. The after math of the battle increased the British credibility and allied Indian regimes that were acting in self Interest with the British East India Company. This is basically a new explanation for an old puzzle of history.

Keywords

East India Company, Nawab of Bengal, French, Nawab of Arcot, Mughal, Nawab of Hyderabad