Historical Memory Journey
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Britannica summary noting the early eighteenth-century transfer of Bengal's capital from Dhaka to Murshidabad.
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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.