Job Charnock

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East India Company Agent

Job Charnock is included as a key historical actor for understanding this chapter's political and social context.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Context

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Company expansion in Bengal riverine-commercial networks in the late 17th century.

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.

Appears In Events

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Timeline View

1690

English Settlement at Calcutta

In 1690, the English East India Company consolidated a settlement at Calcutta, laying an institutional-commercial foundation for later colonial expansion in Bengal.

1704-1717

Murshid Quli Khan Shifts the Capital to Murshidabad

In the early eighteenth century, Murshid Quli Khan shifted Bengal's effective administrative center from Dhaka to Makhsudabad, later known as Murshidabad. The move strengthened centralized revenue management, aligned court and banking networks around a new political hub, and reoriented the province's governing geography before Plassey.