Complete · 0 essays · 10 entries · 0 claims · 0 cited sources
Everything on Nawabs of Bengal
The whole of what the archive holds on Nawabs of Bengal, gathered across 1 domain — its politics and its cooking, its buildings and its language, its saints and its diamonds. The collection page shows one hop and sends you deeper by links; this page elides nothing.
Draft notice. Every essay below was researched with AI assistance under the archive's citation standard — each source fetched and read at the URL given, each quote verbatim, anything unopened flagged on its face. None has had a human editorial pass. The 0 open questions gathered across these pages are the archive's own account of what it does not know.
Regional Divisions
10 items
- Nawabs of Bengal (Nawwab-Nazims) — Dynasty · 1704 – 1765 · Nawabs of BengalDated by the archive's own convention (content/DATE-CONVENTIONS.md) from Murshid Quli Khan's appointment as diwan/governor of Bengal under Aurangzeb in 1116 AH/1704 to the 1765 grant of the Diwani that transferred real fiscal and administrative power to the East India Company — the settlement that extinguished the polity as a sovereign actor, even though titular Nawabs continued at Murshidabad.
- Murshid Qulī Khān, Ja'far Khān 'Alā' al-Dawla — Person · r. 1704 – 1725 · Nawabs of BengalBecame dīwān (governor) for Bengal under Awrangzīb and founded Murshidābād, naming it after himself, as his capital.
- Shujā' Khān, Shujā' al-Dawla — Person · r. 1725 – 1739 · Nawabs of BengalSon-in-law of Murshid Qulī Khān; succeeded him as governor of Bengal in 1725.
- Sarfarāz Khān, 'Alā' al-Dawla — Person · r. 1739 – 1740 · Nawabs of BengalSon of Shujā' Khān; succeeded his father as governor of Bengal in 1739.
- 'Alīwirdī Khān, Mīrzā Muḥammad 'Alī Mahābat Jang Hāshim al-Dawla — Person · r. 1740 – 1756 · Nawabs of BengalRuled Bengal from 1740, part of the line that repelled several Marāt́hā raids and incursions but lost Orissa to them.
- Zayn al-Dīn Aḥmad — Person · named only as father of Sirāj al-Dawla · Nawabs of BengalNamed in the table only as father of Sirāj al-Dawla; did not himself reign.
- Mīrzā Maḥmūd, Sirāj al-Dawla — Person · r. 1756 – 1757 · Nawabs of BengalSucceeded 'Alīwirdī Khān in 1756; defeated by Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, who then placed Mīr Ja'far on the throne in his stead.
- Sayyid Aḥmad Najafī — Person · named only as father of Mīr Ja'far Muḥammad Khān · Nawabs of BengalNamed in the table only as father of Mīr Ja'far; did not himself reign.
- Mīr Ja'far Muḥammad Khān, Hāshim al-Dawla — Person · r. 1757 – 1760 (first reign); restored 1763 – 1765 (second reign) · Nawabs of BengalPlaced on the throne by Clive after the Battle of Plassey in 1757; returned to a second reign in 1763, which ended with the incorporation of the territory into British India in 1765.
- Mīr Qāsim 'Alī — Person · r. 1760 – 1763 · Nawabs of BengalSon-in-law of Mīr Ja'far; ruled Bengal from 1760 to 1763 and died in 1191/1777.