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    This document summarizes a history course on the emergence of Bangladesh. It provides context on Dhaka in the 1700s as one of the wealthiest cities in the world due to textile exports. It notes that Bengal was the wealthiest province of the Mughal Empire, generating 50% of its GDP. It then discusses the weakening Mughal control over Bengal, the growing influence of the British East India Company in trade, and its alliance with local elites like Mir Jafar, which helped the Company defeat Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 when he was only 22 years old, marking the beginning of British colonial rule in Bengal.

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    This document summarizes a history course on the emergence of Bangladesh. It provides context on Dhaka in the 1700s as one of the wealthiest cities in the world due to textile exports. It notes that Bengal was the wealthiest province of the Mughal Empire, generating 50% of its GDP. It then discusses the weakening Mughal control over Bengal, the growing influence of the British East India Company in trade, and its alliance with local elites like Mir Jafar, which helped the Company defeat Siraj ud-Daulah at the Battle of Plassey in 1757 when he was only 22 years old, marking the beginning of British colonial rule in Bengal.

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    North South University

    Department of History & Philosophy

    HIS 103: Emergence of Bangladesh

    2nd Session: Battle of Palashi 1757, British East India


    Company and its trade interests

    Faculty : Shakil Ahmed, PhD (SA2)


    Assistant Professor
    E-mail : shakil.ahmed@juniv.edu
    Twitter : @Shakil553
    Office : NAC 1054
    Mughal Empire

    2
    Dhaka in 1700s
    Dhaka in the 1700s was a city with a
    population of over a million, one of the
    wealthiest cities in the world, with an
    estimated 80,000 skilled textile weavers.
    Dhaka was an exporter of silk and cotton
    textiles, steel, saltpeter, agricultural and
    industrial produce.*
    *Khandker, Hissam (31 July 2015). “Which India is claiming to have been
    colonised?”. The Daily Star (Op-ed).

    3
    The wealth of Bengal
    Bengal was the Mughal Empire’s wealthiest
    province*. It generated 50% of the empire's
    GDP and 12% of the world's GDP.**

    *M. Shahid Alam (2016). Poverty From The Wealth of Nations:


    Integration and Polarization in the Global Economy since 1760. Springer
    Science+Business Media. p. 32.
    **Khandker, Hissam (31 July 2015). “Which India is claiming to have
    been colonised?”. The Daily Star (Op-ed).

    4
    Mughal empire and Bengal
    • Relative independence of Bengal under
    Mughal empire.

    - Bengal Sultanate (Before Mughal 14th


    century)
    - Bengal Subah (16th and 18th centuries)
    - Nawab (18th century)

    5
    East India Company
    • East India Company 16th–19th-century
    English and British trading company.
    • Later it became British joint-stock company
    • It blended business and politics together.
    • It colonized large parts of the Indian
    subcontinent, colonized parts of Southeast
    Asia, and colonized Hong Kong after a war
    with Qing China.

    6
    Local elite and East India Company

    • Local bankers of Bengal and British made


    unholy allience.
    • Weak political control help to make alliance
    between local elite and foreigner.

    7
    Siraj ud-Daulah

    • When Siraj ud-Daulah came in ower. He was


    only 21 years.
    • When he was killed he only 22 years

    8
    Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar

    Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar at the Battle of


    Plassey in 1757 by Francis Hayman (1708 ~ 1776)
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