Historical Memory Journey
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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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1704-1717
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.