the company was appointed as the Diwan of Bengal
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Answer:
the East India Company
The company had become the chief financial administrator of Bengal. On 12 August 1765, the Mughal emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal.
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The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or (after 1707) the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company,[2] Company Bahadur,[3] or simply The Company was an English and later British joint-stock company founded in 1600.[4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company seized control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent, colonised parts of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong after the First Opium War, and maintained trading posts and colonies in the Persian Gulf Residencies.[5]