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Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur[a] (c. 1691 – 5 February 1765), more commonly known as just Mir Jafar, [b] was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expansion of British control of the ...
Mīr Muḥammad Jaʿfar Khān. 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 ...
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. The English East India Company. Mir Jafar was born in the late 17th century. Not much is ...
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French [1] allies on 23 June 1757. The victory was made possible by the defection of Mir Jafar, Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in chief as well as much of the Bengal Subah's armies being ...
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. However, in 1757, during the Battle of Plassey, he betrayed the Nawab and colluded with the ...
TOI travelled to Mir Jafar’s birthplace to learn more about the legacy of deceit that continues to cast a shadow on the present. At Quila Nizamat, in Murshidabad, TOI met the 14th great-grandson ...
Mir Jafar was installed as the puppet Nawab by the British. However, Jafar entered into a secret treaty with the Dutch East India Company. This caused the British to replace Mir Jafar with his son-in-law Mir Qasim in October 1760. In one of his first acts, Mir Qasim ceded Chittagong, [28] Burdwan and Midnapore to the East India Company. Mir ...
Mir Jafar, who was related to Siraj-ud-Daulah by blood and was his military general, was part of a large group of court officials and relatives who were aggrieved by Siraj’s accession. Mir Jafar’s resentment was a product of feeling sidelined despite having supported Siraj-ud-Daulah’s military attack against the Company in Fort William ...
Mir Jafar Biography. Mir Jafar Biography . Mir Jafar was the first Nawab of Bengal under British influence. An Arab by birth, he rose to power in the Nawab’s army and in the battle of Plassey ...
Mir Jafar’s singular (and rather short-sighted) ambition was to take the throne for himself, and believed that the battle of Plassey was the perfect opportunity to see his ambitions through. When the fateful battle commenced, Jafar intentionally held his troops back, giving Clive the advantage.