BATTLE OF BUXAR (1764)

REASONS • Misuse of Dastaks by company servants. 
🔸Imperial Farman gave right to trade in Bengal without paying transit dues or tolls. 
🔸 Servants sold Dastaks to friendly merchants. 
🔸 Hence, Mir Kasim abolished all duties. 
🔸Tussle led to war between company and Mir Kasim in 1763. He fled to Awadh.  
🔸Formed an alliance with Nawab of Awadh; Shuja-ud-daula and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. 

BATTLE COURSE:English army led by Hector Munro. 

RESULTS :Short and decisive battle won by the English army under Hector Munro.

OTHER :
🔸 Mir Jafar placed in throne as a mere puppet. 
🔸 British supremacy was established in Northern India.


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