On 12 August 1765 in Benares, Shah Alam II conferred the role of diwan (tax collector) of Bengal, Behar and Orissa on Lord Robert Clive. This charter made the East India Company the true sovereign ruler of thirty million people and generated revenues totalling four million pounds sterling, digital reproduction of a historical model
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On 12 August 1765 in Benares, Shah Alam II conferred the role of diwan (tax collector) of Bengal, Behar and Orissa on Lord Robert Clive. This charter made the East India Company the true sovereign ruler of thirty million people and generated revenues totalling four million pounds sterling, digital reproduction of a historical model

Date

18e siècle

Crédit

Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Notre référence

BRK26B49_189

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Libre de droits

Format disponible

99,1Mo (13,6Mo) / 40,7cm x 61,0cm / 4810 x 7200 (300dpi)

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