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❦Murshid Quli Khan Shifts the Capital to Murshidabad
Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 1704-1717.
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Nawab of Bengal
He shifted Bengal's administrative center from Dhaka to Makhsudabad (later Murshidabad) and strengthened centralized fiscal governance in the early eighteenth century.
Mughal Bengal's revenue and administrative reorganization before 1757.
His reforms and capital shift reshaped elite, financial, and administrative networks that structured later nawabi politics.
Mughal emperor who formalized Bengal's nawabi phase
“Farrukhsiyar's 1717 decision helped institutionalize Bengal's nawabi regime.”
His 1717 settlement formally elevated Murshid Quli Khan, marking a new phase of Bengal's quasi-autonomous nawabi administration.
Imperial recognition coexisted with increasing provincial fiscal-political autonomy in Bengal.
The 1717 arrangement helped structure the political order that persisted until the Plassey crisis.
Regional zamindar power figure in early-18th-century Bengal
“A key historical actor for understanding this transition phase in Bengal.”
Raja Sitaram Ray played a notable role in Bengal's changing political order and regional power dynamics.
Referenced in relation to major transitions in sovereignty, administration, or resistance politics in Bengal.
Helps explain continuity and change across Bengal's medieval-to-early-modern historical arc.
East India Company Agent
Job Charnock is included as a key historical actor for understanding this chapter's political and social context.
Company expansion in Bengal riverine-commercial networks in the late 17th century.
Their role helps explain how power, institutions, or ideas shifted during this period.
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Jadunath Sarkar was an important figure in the political and historical trajectory of Bengal and Bangladesh.
South Asian political and intellectual history in the Bengal region.
Their legacy remains relevant to understanding state, society, and memory in Bengal/Bangladesh history.
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