Mir Jafar Mirzafar : (1691-1765), Jāfar Ali Khan was brought up in the family of Aliverdi Khan the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar & Orissa: Aliverdi inveigled & murdered the Mahratta general & had to cede Orissa to them, then helped the Brits defeat the Maharattas; after Jāfar saved him from the Maharattas made him his commander in chief, but left his throne to his grandson Sirāj-ud-daula: Jāfar entered into conspiracy with the Brits & did not throw the Nawab’s army to protect him from Clive’s attack, got him murdered: Clive installed him as Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar & Orissa in June 1757: in 1759 he intrigued with the Dutch to expel the English & was deposed by the English in 1760 & his son-in-law, Mir Kāsim installed: but Mir Kāsim refused the Brits absolute power of his commercial interests & kow-tow to every passing Brit in service of the E.I. Co. so he was deposed in 1763 Mir Jāfar was restored as Nawab & died Jan 1765: Kāsim went to war with the Brits whom he defeated twice & avenged their treacherous treatment of his men by cornering & butchering 50 of them & wounding 100 others: he found shelter with Nawab of Oudh & then the Rāṇā of Rohilkhand, then in Jodhpur, then in service of Emperor Shah Alam of Delhi; he died in 1777. [Buckland’s pp. 10-11, 292, humanised]
... the pleasant expectation of seeing this over Page 1044 energetic and inconveniently independent party being crushed out of existence by the common adversary of all. It is the spirit of Mir Jafar, the politics of Jagat Sheth repeating themselves in their spiritual descendants. That these ignoble, but perfectly human and intelligible motives are behind the Conventionalist separatism is further ...
... out Lala Lajpat Rai to the bureaucracy as the man to strike at when the Punjab was in a ferment over the Colonisation Bill? But, by the Bengalee 's reasoning, men may be the moral descendants of Mir Jafar and Jagat Seth and yet be excellent patriots so long as they obey Moderate leaders and respect age and authority. The second term we want to see so defined as to be unmistakable, is the term "leaders" ...
... employment of treason, intrigue and conspiracy in the enemy camp crippled the strength of the Nawab's army. Robert Clive who was the commander of the British forces said in his report on the battle: 'Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh and Yar Lutuf Khan gave us no other assistance than standing neutral.' These three were secretly in league with the East India Company. This battle gave the East India Company control ...
... rejoice over the pleasant expectation of seeing this over-energetic and inconveniently independent party being crushed out of existence by the common adversary of all. It is the spirit of Mir Jafar, the politics of Jagat Sheth repeating themselves in their spiritual descendants. Answering Gokhale's ingenuous plea that the word "national" in the resolution on National Education was removed ...
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