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How did Bengal eerge as a regional power under Murshid Quli Khan and Ali vardi Khan?
Asked by Chandrashekhar | 12 Sep, 2018, 10:07: PM
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- Murshid Quli Khan became the new governor of Bengal in 1717. It was during his governorship that Bengal emerged as an independent state.
- As the power of the Mughal empire began to weaken, he consolidated his position in Bengal and decaled himself the nawab and paid only nominal allegiance to the Mughal emperor.
- He shifted the capital of Bengal from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
- Alivardi Khan who was earlier, the governor of Patna, became the nawab by defeating ansd killing Sarfaraz Khan in 1740 and ruled for 16 years thereafter.
- he was an efficient ruler who removed corrupt and inefficient jagirdars.
- Alivardi Khan gave many concessions to the Marathas to maintain peaceful relations with them.
Bengal prospered under the rule of both Murshid Quli Khan and Alivardi Khan.
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