Innamburan Pages 12 AUGUST 1765

Innamburan Pages 12 AUGUST 1765

The Britishers established a firm hold on India by grabbing 
the right to collect taxes on behalf of the crumbling Moghul  Kingdom this day, the 12 August 1765. It is called Divani 

Rights. This was accomplished by the Treaty of Allahabad between the Mughul ruler Shah Alam II and Robert Clive.This was under duress, as the Mughuls were a pale shadow of their former mighty empire and as a direct sequel to the Battle of Buxar on 22 October 1764. It was more of an imposition by the powerful East India Company and was bestowed the grandiose Title of a "Treaty'. The British stranglehold, thus established for collecting taxes 

directly from the people of the Bengal-Bihar-Orissa bloc. The Nawab of Awadh was also compelled to pay Fifty lakhs of rupees as war indemnity to the East India Company in addition to a large sum as 'protection racket'. Shah Alam II was awarded a pittance of maintenance allowance.It can be reasonably held  that the squatting of the Britishers as merchants, tax masters and rulers began as an unfortunate  direct outcome of this infamous Treaty of Allahabad.

Reference: 

Encyclopaedia of Indian Events & Dates

By S. B. Bhattacherje

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