The Treaty of Allahabad 1765: How the East India Company Became a Tax Collector

The Battle of Buxar (1764) gave the East India Company a decisive military victory, but it was the Treaty of Allahabad (1765) that turned that victory into a system of exploitation. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the treaty's key terms — the diwani rights over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, the puppet Nawab of Bengal, and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II's fateful decision to grant the Company revenue collection. They explore how Robert Clive negotiated this agreement, why the Mughal emperor accepted it, and how the diwani effectively made the Company a sovereign power in India. They also discuss the human cost: the famine of 1770, the draining of Bengal's wealth, and the beginning of colonial extraction that would shape India for centuries. This is the story of how a trading company became a tax collector — and an empire in all but name. #TreatyOfAllahabad #RobertClive #ShahAlamII #BattleOfBuxar #EastIndiaCompany #DiwaniRights #BengalFamine #MughalEmpire #NawabOfBengal #BritishRaj #ColonialIndia #1765 #TaxCollection #MirQasim #ShujaUdDaula #HectorMunro #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo