30/11/2025
🔁 Recap Part 5: Plassey opened the door for political control.
🔥 Part 6: Buxar handed over the wealth of India.
Series Historical Background of Indian Polity
The Battle of Buxar in 1764 was not just a military defeat —
it was the moment when India’s power shifted permanently to the British East India Company.
Three powerful rulers fought together:
• Mir Qasim — Bengal
• Shah Alam II — Mughal Emperor
• Shuja-ud-Daulah — Awadh
Yet all three lost to the Company.
This defeat did not only break the armies —
it broke the financial backbone of India.
After Buxar, the Company received Diwani Rights (tax collection) of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa —
the economic heart of the subcontinent.
From this point, India was not only controlled politically…
but economically captured.
Next Episodes Coming:
Regulating Act 1773 | Pitt’s India Act 1784 | Charter Acts |