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Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur ( c. 1691 – 5 February 1765) was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company.
Mar 24, 2020 · Mir Jafar was a man whose political ambition and fateful betrayal of India allowed the country to become one of the world’s largest and most oppressive empires. This is the story of a man whose name is synonymous with “traitor” in India even today.
Mīr Jaʿfar (born 1691?—died Feb. 5, 1765, Bengal, India) was the first Bengal ruler (1757–60; 1763–65) under British influence, which he helped bring about by working for the defeat of Mughal rule there. An Arab by birth, Mīr Jaʿfar assisted his brother-in-law, Gen. ʿAlī Vardī Khan, in seizing the government of Bengal in 1740.
May 9, 2024 · It was in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 that Mir Jafar, one of the most trusted generals of Bengal nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, defected to the British side, leading to the victory of the East India ...
May 2, 2024 · For more than a century, Mir Jafar has been a common political trope invoked to symbolise betrayal. Was he the only traitor at Plassey? Or is he more of a 'political myth'?
Mir Jafar was an influential figure in the history of Bengal during the 18th century. He was born in the early 1690s and hailed from a noble family. Mir Jafar initially served as a commander in the army of Nawab Alivardi Khan, the ruler of Bengal.
After the Battle of Plassey Clive proclaimed Mir Jafar as the Nawab of Bengal and placed him on the throne of Murshidabad. Mir Jafar in order to satisfy the British as per the agreement gave the Zamindari of 24 Parganas (group of villages) of Bengal to the company.
Mir Jafar was the first Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha under the British rule in India. He succeeded Siraj - ud - Daulah. Mir Jafar or Sayyid Mir Muhammed Jafar Ali Khan bears the formal title of Shuja ul-Mulk, Hashim ud-Daula, Nawab Jaafar Ali Khan Bahadur, Mahabat Jang.
Dec 10, 2020 · The source of Clive’s confidence was a small group of nobles led by Mir Jafar, commander to the Nawab of Bengal, who had made a secret pact with the British, which would ensure their victory in the upcoming battle, in exchange for Mir Jafar being appointed the next Nawab.
Apr 24, 2023 · The elderly Mir Jafar was escorted out of his court in Murshidabad and rowed downstream to Kolkata, where he was given a pension to maintain his lifestyle. Jafar owned several properties in Kolkata, and sometime in the 1760s, he gifted these Alipore grounds to Warren Hastings.
