Question

व्हेन डिड द ब्रिटिश रिक्वायर्ड दीवानी राइट्स ऑफ बेंगलफ्रेंड एट द ​

Answer 1

• Diwani Rights were the rights granted to British East India Company to collect revenues and decide the civil cases.

• As soon as the war with Mir Qasim (also Mir Kasim) began, the British reinstituted Mir Jafar on the throne (1763-65). Mir Jafar died in 1765, succeeded by his minor son, Najm-ud-daulah. After signing a treaty, he too was a powerless Nawab, living off Company’s allowances, and his political and administrative powers were usurped by the Company.

• In 1765, Clive returned as the Bengal Governor and entered into a pact with the vanquished Nawab of Oudh, Shuja-ud-daulah, and Shah Alam II, the emperor of Delhi. The First Treaty of Allahabad (1765) made Shuja-ud-daulah an ally of the Company. As war compensation, he was forced to pay the Company Rs 50 lakhs and hand over Kara and Allahabad districts. The Second of Treaty Allahabad was signed (1765) with Shah Alam II. He granted the British the Diwani rights (i.e. right to collect revenues and decide civil cases) of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa in lieu of Kara, Allahabad and an annual tax of Rs 26 lakhs