Person · r. 1757 – 1760 (first reign); restored 1763 – 1765 (second reign)
Mīr Ja'far Muḥammad Khān, Hāshim al-Dawla
Placed 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.
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- bosworth-bengal-nawabs-mir-jafar-table · read as web
1170/1757 – Mīr Ja'far Muḥammad Khān b. Sayyid Aḥmad Najafī, Hāshim al-Dawla
- bosworth-bengal-nawabs-mir-jafar-prose · read as web
At the Battle of Plassey in 1170/1757, Clive defeated Sirāj al-Dawla and placed his own candidate, Mīr Ja'far, on the throne.
- bosworth-bengal-nawabs-mir-jafar-second-reign-table · read as web
1177–8/1763–5 – Mīr Ja'far 'Alī, second reign