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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Nadia ruler linked to mid-18th-century political realignments
“A key historical actor for understanding this transition phase in Bengal.”
Krishnachandra Ray of Nadia 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.
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