Nawab of Bengal

The Nawab of Bengal was a semi-independent ruler of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa who nominally owed allegiance to the Mughal Emperor but exercised sovereign power by the mid-eighteenth century. Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab who fought the Battle of Plassey in 1757, sought to expel the growing British East India Company presence from Bengal. His defeat and subsequent assassination ended independent Bengali rule and transferred effective sovereignty to the EIC.

• Existed: 1717 CE – 1757 CE
• Type: Entity
• Government: Princely State
• Capital: Murshidabad