Babar started the mughal empire. After that came Humayun and Akbar and after this Jahangir. He became the 4th Mughal Emperor in 1605.
At the same time, the British East India Company had come to India for trading. Britain's ambassador Sir Thomas Roe lived in the Royal Court of Jahangir for a long time. Sir Thomas kept bribing Jahangir for permission to factories in different ways.
Finally, in 1618, the British East India Company got permission to set up a factory in Surat. After this, by 1647, the British East India Company had put 23 of its factories in India.
After Jahangir, Shah Jahan became the 5th Mughal Emperor in 1627. After this, in 1658, Aurangzed became the 6th Mughal emperor.
During the time of Aurangzeb, In 1664, the French East India Company of France had also come to the fore and they also got permission to set up factories.
In 1700, Aurangzeb made Murshid Quili Khan the Diwan of Bengal. Bengal at that time was a very big state. Bihar, Bangladesh, West Bengal and Orissa were part of Begal at that time.
At that time the capital of Bengal was in Dhaka. In 1704, Murshid Quili Khan transferred the capital of Bengal from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
Aurangzeb ruled the Mughal Empire till 1707. In 1713, Farrukhshiyar became the 9th Mughal emperor and he waived all the taxes of the East India Company.
Farrukhshiyar made Murshid Quili Khan the Nawab of Bengal. Murshid Quili Khan used to share the revenue from Bengal with the Mughal Empire.
But after Farrukhshiar in 1719, the Mughal Empire's hold on Bengal ended completely. Bengal was becoming an independent state.
In 1727, Murshid Quili Khan made his son-in-law Shuja ud Din Muhammad Khan the Nawab of Bengal. Shuja Ud has a loyal soldier Alivardi Khan.
Seeing the ability of Alivardi Khan, he was soon made a general of the army. Alvardi Khan was also made the Deputy Subedar of Bihar after some time.
In 1739, after Shuja Ud Din, Sarfaraz Khan became the Nawab of Bengal. Alvardi Khan no longer wanted to be a deputy subedar, so he killed Sarfaraz Khan in the Battle of Giria in 1740 and himself became the Nawab of Bengal.
Alivardi Khan was the Nawab of Bengal till 1756. After his death in 1756, his grandson Siraj-ud-din Doulah was made the Nawab of Bengal at the age of 23.
Siraj-ud-din saw the Britishers building their forts and also laying siege to them. At that time Fort William, which was the fort of the British East India Company, was being fortified.
In 1756, the 7 Years War started in Europe, and Britain and France were fighting against each other. At that time the British East India Company felt that the French East India Company could attack their fort. Therefore the British were fortifying the fort to keep their forts safe.
Siraj-ud-din felt that the British East India Company could not build a fort on the land of Bengal. The British and French East India Company were earning a lot of money but Bengal was not getting any tax for it.
He said that the tax exemption given by Farrukhsiyar in 1717 will have to be abolished because Bengal is no longer under the Mughals.
Siraj-ud-din immediately took action on this and called the representatives of the British and French East India Company. Siraj-ud-din asked them to close their forts and also asked them to pay taxes.
The French East India Company immediately agreed but the British East India Company refused to accept it.
Therefore Siraj-ud-din attacked Fort William with a large army. After attacking most of the Britishers fled from it and about 146 people were caught. Children and women were also among these 146 people.
These 146 people were kept locked in a small guard room in Fort William. When the door was opened the next morning, only 23 people out of 146 were alive. The rest died due to suffocation. This incident is known as the Black Hole Incident.
Siraj-ud-din captured Fort William. The other Britishers who ran away from the fort will send this information to Robert Clive. Robert Clive was in Madras at that time.
Robert Clive reached Bengal with 3000 infantrymen. Simultaneously, Admiral Watson attacked the port of Bengal with his 3 ships.
Siraj-ud-din could not face Robert Clive and had to sign the peace treaty. The name of this treaty is Alipur Peace Treaty.
This treaty was named Alipur Peace Treaty because, after the Black Hole Incident, Shiraz Ud Din renamed Calcutta as Alipur. This treaty was signed in Calcutta.
According to this treaty, Fort William was returned to the Britishers. The Britishers did not even have to pay any tax to Siraj-ud-din and he could have built more forts and also kept an army in Bengal. With this, he could also be made his coins.
But even after the Alipur Peace Treaty, the peace could not remain. Robert Clive had decided that he would not allow Shiraj Ud Din to remain the Nawab of Bengal.
Robert Clive lured Mir Jafar, the Commander-in-Chief of Siraj-ud-din, to his side by luring him to be the Nawab of Bengal.
After that Robert Clive attacked the Chandranagar factory of the French East India Company. Siraj ud Din felt that the Britishers were crossing their limits and decided to attack the Britishers.
A fight took place between the two on the banks of the Bhagirathi river. The Battle of Plassey was fought in Plassey. In Battle of Plassey, Robert Clive kills Shiraz Ud Din with the help of Mir Zafar And made Mir Jafar the Nawab of Bengal.
Battle of Plassey was won by the British forces under the leadership of Robert Clive.
Mir Zafar continued to act as a puppet of Robert Clive. After the Battle of Plassey, the British East India Company, which had come to trade in India, had made its political power.
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