Mir Qasim

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Mīr Qasim
Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar
Reign20 October 1760 – 7 July 1763
PredecessorMir Jafar
SuccessorMir Jafar
Full name
Mīr Muhqammad qasim Ali khan
Native nameমীর কাশিম
Died(1777-05-08)8 May 1777
Kotwal, Maratha Empire
Noble familyNajafi
Spouse(s)Nawab Fatima Begum Sahiba, daughter of Mir Jafar and Shah Khanum
Issue
  • Mirza Ghulam Uraiz Ja'afari
  • Mirza Muhammad Baqir ul-Husain
  • Nawab Muhammad Aziz Khan Bahadur
  • Nawab Badr ud-din Ali Khan Bahadur
FatherMir Razi Khan
Military career
Allegiance
Bengal War
Battle of Buxar

Mir Qasim (

Chinsura and overthrew Mir Jafar, replacing him with Mir Qasim.[1] Qasim later fell out with the British and fought against them at Buxar. His defeat has been suggested as a key reason in the British becoming the dominant power in large parts of North and East India.[2]

Early life and family

Mir Syed Qasim was the son of Mir Muhammad Razi Khan, and claimed descent from

Persian poetry under the pen name of Khalis, and a lengthy diwan is attributed to him.[3]

Qasim was married to Fatima Begum, a daughter of

Nawab of Bengal, he served as the Faujdar of Rangpur for roughly two decades.[6]

Life

The Nawab's arrival before Clive's position.

Upon ascending the throne, Mir Qasim rewarded the East India Company with lavish gifts.He also granted it the right to collect revenue of the districts of

duty imposed of all foreign traders. The relationship between Qasim and the company slowly deteriorated, and he shifted his capital from Murshidabad to Munger in present-day Bihar where he raised an army, financing his new troops by streamlining tax collection.[1]

Qasim vigorously opposed the East India Company's position that their Mughal license (a

Maharajadhiraja Prithvi Narayan Shah, the first King of Nepal. Kanak Singh Baaniya, Chief Minister of Makwanpur, had requested Qasim's intervention against Shah after he had taken Bikram Sen, the king of Makwanpur, hostage. Qasim dispatched a military force under the command of his general Gurgin Khan to invade Nepal. Khan was swiftly defeated by Shah's army, and retreated.[citation needed
]

Unlike

Siraj-ud-Daulah before him, Mir Qasim was an effective and popular ruler. Their victory at Buxar established the East India Company as a powerful force in the province of Bengal in a much more real sense than at Plassey seven years earlier and at Bedara
five years earlier. By 1793 the East India company had abolished the Nizamat (referring to the Mughal suzerainty) and became completely in charge of the former Mughal province.

Death

Having lost all his men and influence after his defeat at Buxar, Qasim was expelled from his camp by

Allahabad, Gohad and Jodhpur, and eventually settling at Kotwal, near Delhi ca. 1774.[citation needed
]

Mir Qasim died in obscurity and abject poverty possibly from dropsy, at Kotwal, near Delhi on 8 May 1777.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Shah, Mohammad (2012). "Mir Qasim". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
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  3. ^ Askari, Syed Hasan (1946). "Bihar in the time of Aurangzeb". The Journal of the Bihar Research Society. 32. Bihar Research Society: 177.
  4. ^ Ali Khan, Syed Muhammad Reza (1975). The Murshidabad Guide: A Brief Historical Survey of Murshidabad, from 1704 to 1969. Shaykh Pear Mohammed. p. 27.
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  6. ^ Majumdar, A. B. (1970). "Note on the northern frontier of Bengal from Murshid Kuli Khan to Warren Hastings". Proceedings. 31. Indian History Congress: 332.
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Further reading

Mir Qasim
Born: (Unknown) Died: 8 May 1777
Preceded by Faujdar of Rangpur
1740 – 20 October 1760
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Nawab of Bengal

20 October 1760 – 7 July 1763
Succeeded by