what was the impact of battle of buxar on begal?
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Mir Kasim formed a confederacy with Shuja-ud-Dualah, the Nawab of Awadh and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam in a final bid to oust the English from Bengal.
The combined armies of the three powers numbering between 40,000 to 60,000 met an English army of 7,072 troops under Major Hector Munro at the battlefield of Buxar on 22 October, 1764. The English won the day.
The Battle of Buxar was a battle in strictest terms and is therefore, rightly considered as the most decisive battles of Indian history.
The Battle of Buxar was a closely contested battle in which the losses of the English numbered 847 killed and wounded, while on the side of the Indian powers more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were killed.
The battle demonstrated the superiority of English arms over the combined army of two of the major Indian powers.
Buxar confirmed the decisions of Plassey. As a result of this triumph, in 1765, Robert Clive signed two treaties at Allahabad popularly known as Treaty of Allahabad with the Mughal emperor and Nawab of Awadh respectively.
The treaty effectively legalized the British East India Company’s control over the whole of Bengal since Shah Alam II gave the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the British.
They also managed to get the right of Nizamat from Mir Jaffar, the re-nominated Nawab of Bengal.
In fact the Battle of Buxar firmly established the British as masters of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa and placed Awadh at their mercy. Now English power in Northern India became unchallengeable.