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Murshid Quli Khan Shifts the Capital to Murshidabad

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Murshid Quli Khan

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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.

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