HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Alinagar
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Faizabad
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Allahabad
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Benaras
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Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Buxar ended with the signing of Treaty of Allahabad in 1765 by Shah Alam II and Robert Clive of East India Company. It gave diwani rights or the right to collect taxes of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mughal Emperor granted the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the East India Company in 1765.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Allahabad was signed on 16 August 1765. It was signed between the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and Lord Clive of the British East India Company.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British forces defeated the Indian forces in the Battle of Buxar in 1764. Thus, the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam conceded ‘Diwani rights’ to the British.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the victory in the Battle of Buxar in 1764, Robert Clive signed two separate treaties, one with Shuja-Ud-Daulah (Nawab of Oudh), and one with Shah Aam-II (Mughal Emperor) in Allahabad in 1765. On 12 August 1765, the British forced the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II to sign the Treaty of Allahabad.