How were Dewani Rights,Dual Government and Famine of 1776 correlated?
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The Bengal administration was split into two sections under this scheme-Diwani and Nizamat. The company had earned the right of Diwani to raise revenue and Nizamat was granted Nawab administrative rights.. Company raised revenue levels and strict revenue collection methods were used.
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The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 (Bengali: ৭৬-এর মন্বন্তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór; lit The Famine of '76) was a famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of British India from Bihar to the Bengal region. The famine is estimated to have caused the deaths of about 10 million people,[2] and Warren Hastings's 1772 report estimated that a third of the population in the affected region starved to death.[3] Rajat Datta estimates a much lower revised number, in the range of around 2 million dead within 6–7 months.[4]
The revenues of British East India Company dropped to £174,300 due to the famine. Tax collection was carried out violently to make up for losses.[1]
The famine is one of the many famines and famine-triggered epidemics that devastated the Indian subcontinent during the 18th and 19th century.[5][6][7] It is usually attributed to a combination of weather and the policies of the British East India Company. The start of the famine has been attributed to a failed monsoon in 1769 that caused widespread drought and two consecutive failed rice crops.[3] The devastation from war, and exploitative tax revenue maximisation policies of the rapacious British East India Company after 1765 crippled the economic resources of the rural population.[3][8]
Nobel prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen describes it as a man-made famine, noting that no previous famine had occurred in Bengal that century, and the region under the Muslim rule was one of the world's major economic power and signalled the proto-industrialisation.[9][10][11] Historian William Dalrymple held that the deindustrialisation of Bengal[12] and the British policies were the reasons for the mass famine and widespread atrocities.[13]
The Bengali name "Chhiattōrer monnōntór" is derived from Bengali calendar year 1176 and the word for famine ("Chhiattōr"- "76"; "monnōntór"- "famine" in Bengali)