June 1757
Accession as Nawab of Bengal
After the Battle of Plassey, Mir Jafar is installed as Nawab of Bengal with British East India Company support.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Murshidabad in India. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
After the Battle of Plassey, Mir Jafar is installed as Nawab of Bengal with British East India Company support.
Provenance
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