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❦Job Charnock
East India Company Agent
Job Charnock is included as a key historical actor for understanding this chapter's political and social context.
Biography
Context
In the context of Company expansion in Bengal riverine-commercial networks in the late 17th century., Job Charnock is recognized as East India Company Agent. Job Charnock is included as a key historical actor for understanding this chapter's political and social context.
Contribution
Job Charnock is included as a key historical actor for understanding this chapter's political and social context.
Impact
Their role helps explain how power, institutions, or ideas shifted during this period.
Timeline Placement
Job Charnock appears in 2 linked timeline events, spanning 1690 - 1704-1717.
First Appearance
1690
Latest Appearance
1704-1717
Active Span
1690 - 1704-1717
Linked Events
2
Legacy Summary
Their role helps explain how power, institutions, or ideas shifted during this period. This influence is reflected across 2 connected events.
References
Key sources for understanding this figure
A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal, 1700-1950
A three-volume survey covering the Nawabi era, colonial remaking, and the freedom struggle through 1950.
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A History of Bangladesh
A synthetic history of Bangladesh from the long view through colonial encounters, East Pakistan, war, and independence.
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History
General Bangladesh history reference useful for political chronology around the Ershad takeover and the 1980s authoritarian period.
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Murshid Quli Khan
Banglapedia entry outlining Murshid Quli Khan's administrative role and the capital transfer context in early eighteenth-century Bengal.
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Murshidabad
Background on why Murshidabad rose as the political and financial center of Bengal and how the city developed under the nawabs.
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Murshidabad
Britannica summary noting the early eighteenth-century transfer of Bengal's capital from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
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