Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following developments most directly legalised the East India Company’s fiscal authority in Bengal after the Battle of Buxar?

  1. The Treaty of Madras
  2. Shah Alam II’s grant of the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
  3. The Treaty of Salbai
  4. The restoration of Mir Kasim as Nawab of Bengal
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