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Shah Alam Il gave the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha to the East India Company on Correct Answer 12th August, 1765

The correct answer is 12th August 1765.

Important Points

  • The sixteenth Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II granted the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa to the East India Company on 12th August 1765.
  • Shah Alam II authored his own Diwan of poems and was known by the pen-name Aftab.
  • Diwani of Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha to the East India Company was the result of the Battle of Buxar (1764).
  • Battle of Buxar ended with the signing of the 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.

First Treaty of Allahabad (12th August 1765):

  • This treaty was signed between Clive, Mughal emperor Shah Alam II and Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Bengal on the following terms:
  • The company received the Diwani rights of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha. 
  • The company took the districts of Kara and Allahabad from the Nawab of Awadh and gave it to the Mughal emperor for the upkeep of his Allahabad Court.
  • The Mughal emperor was promised an annual pension of twenty six lakhs in lieu of the granted Diwani rights. 
  • A provision of `53 lakh to the company in return for Nizamat functions (military defence, police, and judiciary functions).

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