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	Mir Jafar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mir Jafar, it is recorded, was not particularly impressed by the promises of the notoriously cruel and unreliable Siraj-Ud-Daulah.
		Mir Jafar managed to worm his way back to the good graces of the British; he was again appointed Nawab in 1763 and held the position until his death at 1765.
		Mir Jafar himself is generally regarded in the same manner as Vidkun Quisling in Norway, Benedict Arnoldin the United States, and Philippe Pétain in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mir_Jafar (1002 words)

	Shah Alam II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The political disorders in Bengal and the unpopularity of Mir Jafar raised high hopes in his mind.
		Mir Jafar was entirely dependent upon British support for maintaining himself on the throne.
		Mir Qasim had his investiture as Subahdar of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and agreed to pay an annual revenue of 24 lakhs of Rupees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shah_Alam_II (794 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Mir Qasim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mir Qasim's attempt to enforce discipline through his faujdars was one of the immediate causes of the company's breach with him.
		Mir Qasim was driven to a conflict in spite of the fact that he discharged the company's debt.
		Mir Qasim knew quite well that a final contest with the English was inevitable, and hence he equipped his army and husbanded his resources as best as he could.
	www.banglapedia.info /HT/M_0257.HTM (1159 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Palashi, The battle of
		So Clive wrote to Watts on May 2 to assure Mir Jafar 'to fear nothing', that the British were 'strong enough to drive' the nawab out of the country and that he (Clive) would stand by him (Mir Jafar) as long as there was a man left.
		Mir Jafar was in Murshidabad since May 30 but Watts failed to conclude the agreement with him.
		Mir Jafar advised the nawab to suspend action for the day and start afresh the next morning, and soon passed on the message to Clive.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/P_0044.HTM (1974 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Mir Jafar Ali Khan
		Jafar Ali had gained a reputation for valour by his rapid march to rescue Saulat Jang near Katak before his defeated and fleeing captors could murder him (1741) and later by a victory over the Marathas on 14 December 1746.
		Mir Jafar swore by the Holy Quran to fight the English; advised the nawab to withdraw the troops from the field and promised to fight with renewed vigour next morning.
		Mir Jafar soon discovered that it was impossible to meet all the demands of the company and its officials, who on their part, began to criticise the nawab for his incapacity in fulfilling their expectations.
	banglapedia.net /HT/M_0255.HTM (924 words)

	Re: Mir Jafar's Descendants
		Mir Jafar was made the epitome of perfidy that the British were able to enlist to defeat the true Indian.
		Syed Muhammad Mir Jafar Ali Khan was of Shia-Arab descent, a migrant from the holy land of Najaf in Iraq.
		Syeda Nasim Ara is a direct descendant of Mir Jafar, an Indian nobleman who switched sides at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, handing victory to Britain's Robert Clive and paving the way for two centuries of British rule.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/soc.culture.bangladesh/msg01201.html (2199 words)

	Battle of Plassey - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mir Jafar, for his betrayal of the Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah and alliance with the British, was installed as the new Nawab, while Siraj Ud Daulah was captured on July 2 in Murshidabad as he attempted to escape further north.
		Mir Jaffer remained the titular Nawab until his death in 1765, while the actual power was being exercised by the Company.
		Mir Jaffer's palace now stands in ruins at the place, but close to it is a gate called Namakharamer Deori (Hindi for traitor's gate) where Watts is supposed to have entered the palace disguised as a purdanasheen (Urdu for vieled) lady in a palanquin.
	www.pakistangrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Battle_of_Plassey (2368 words)

	Jamali: ever the yes-man of Pakistan's rulers
		Jafar Khan's case was argued by a team of three lawyers consisting of Jinnah, Bhulabhai Desai and Chaudhry Mohammed Ali.
		Jafar Khan and his family joined the League and were in the forefront of the anti-Gandhi and anti-Congress forces in Balochistan till the creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947.
		Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, not known to be a man of principle and widely reputed to be an opportunist, kept switching sides between the Pakistan Muslim League and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, depending on who made the highest bid for his services.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/may/12raman.htm (2096 words)

	DAWN - Features; April 7, 2002
		Mir Sahib, as he is remembered by many, had a 45-year dynamic political career that witnessed fight with the British, participation in the Khilafat Movement, bridging gap between Afghan and Baloch Sardar, leadership role in the Independence Movement and later in the Pakistan Solidarity Movement.
		Mir Jafar Khan Jamali formally joined the Muslim League during the Quaid’s visit to Jacobabad in the capacity of the President of All-India Muslim League on October 16, 1938.
		Mir Sahib didn’t care about portfolios or positions; his main concern and preference was to be able to play a role in the well-being of Muslims and the people of Balochistan.
	www.dawn.com /2002/04/07/fea.htm (4682 words)

	The Battle of Buxar
		Mir Kasim (reign:1760 to 1763), made an attempt to recover Bengal from the hands of British.
		The armies of Mir Kasim and his allies Emperor Shah Alam II and Shuja-ud-daula, Nawab of Avadh, out-matched the British in number.
		Mir Jafar also had trained Afghan cavalry and modern cannon manned by European mercenaries and led a charge on the Company's forces.
	www.indhistory.com /buxar-battle.html (540 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Mir Jafar Ali Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		He was an Arab by descent (son of Sayyed Ahmad Najafi) and had come to India as a penniless adventurer like his master Nawab alivardi khan, who gave him the hand of his half-sister (Shah Khanam) and raised him to the post of bakhshi, a position next only to the nawab himself.
		In the battle of palashi, on receiving the news of Mir Madan's fall, Sirajuddula called Mir Jafar to his tent and begged his loyalty.
		On 29 June Clive met Mir Jafar at Sirajuddaula's Hirajhil Palace and there, in the presence of the rajas and other courtiers, he led Mir Jafar by the hand to the masnad, and saluted him as the nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Qrissa, upon which the courtiers congratulated him and paid him the usual homage.
	www.banglapedia.info /HT/M_0255.HTM (924 words)

	Belvedere House-Kolkata,tour to kolkkata, travel package calcutta, india heritage, india heritage tour, travel.
		The first sketch of Belvedere House could have started taking shape from the period when Mir Jafar Ali Khan, the Nawab of Bengal was compelled by the East India Company to abdicate his throne at Murshidabad to Qasim Khan in 1760.
		Mir Jafar moved to Kolkata where he is thought to have owned a large court house.
		While in Kolkata and before the treaty which reinstated him as Bengal’s Nawab in 1763, Jafar is supposed to have gone on a spree, building considerable property at Alipore.
	www.indiaprofile.com /heritage/belvederehouse.htm (954 words)

	History of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		So Mir Madan thinking that Clive's artillery would too be in the same state attacked the British garrison but Clive's foresight had saved the British artillery form the incessant rainfall.
		He was replaced with Mir Jafar, who later betrayed and joined forces with Clive.
		Mir Jafar was made the Nawab of Bengal but with limited power.
	indiansaga.com /history/british_plassey.html (312 words)

	Prime Minister of Pakistan
		Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali,59, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23rd November 2002, after the National Assembly had voted him as Leader of the House.
		Mir Zafarullah Khan pledged to continue the fiscal and foreign policies of the past three years which, he said, had best served the interests of Pakistan.
		His uncle, Mir Jafar Khan Jamali was one of the stalwarts of the Pakistan movement and a very close associate of the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
	www.geocities.com /financepeshawar/primeminister.htm (949 words)

	MIR ZAFARULLAH KHAN JAMALI
		Jafar Khan and his family joined the ML and were in the forefront of the anti-Gandhi and anti-INC forces in Balochistan till the creation of Pakistan on August 14,1947.
		Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, not known to be a man of principle and widely reputed to be an opportunist, kept switching sides between the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), depending on who made the highest bidding for his services.
		The Jamali tribe led by Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali colluded with Z.A.Bhutto and the military to crush the nationalists.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper683.html (2082 words)

	MY COIN COLLECTION
		British bribed his general Mir Jafar and defeated the Nawab in Battle of Plassy in 1757.
		Mir Jafar treacherously killed Nabab and later gave Zamindari of twenty-four paraganas as a reward to Company.
		Mir Kasim formed a confederacy with Nawab of Awadh, and Mughal emperor Shah Alam II to recover Bengal but was defeated at Buxor in 1764.
	ajayraj.tripod.com /coin.htm (726 words)

	History of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		He selected the most eligible pretender in the person of the elderly general Mir Jafar and then, after a gruesome battle of Plassey in June 1757, replaced him as the ruler of Bengal.
		Mir Kasim on his accession in 1760 paid pound 200,000 to the Council and his successor three years later another pound 139,000 to the same council.
		Within a year the Calcutta Council displaced Mir Jafar for a supposedly more pliant Nawab Mir Kasim, and, when they found that in fact he was more resolute and was organizing an army, replaced him in turn after a severe campaign.
	indiansaga.com /history/british_bengal1.html (508 words)

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		Courageously facing the difficulties of his new position, which included a serious lack of funds, he deposed the subadar of Bengal, Mir Jafar, whom he replaced by his son-in-law, Mir Kasim, a circumstance which increased the influence of England in the province.
		Practically all the company's servants were traders in their private capacity, and as they claimed various privileges and exemptions this system was detrimental to the interests of the native princes and gave rise to an enormous amount of corruption.
		Reprisals on the part of the subadar were followed by war; and, ' annoyed at the failure of his pacific schemes, the governor resigned and returned to England in 1764.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=67891&locale=en (753 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Empire Story by H. E. Marshall
		Mir Jafar had been old and feeble and a mere tool in the hands of the British.
		Mir Cossim was young and clever, and anxious to free himself from their power.
		Mir Cossim rejoiced greatly at this victory, but when the British at Calcutta heard of it they were very wrathful, and, to punish Mir Cossim, they dethroned him, and again made Mir Jafar Nawab.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=marshall&book=empire&story=misrule (1367 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Vansittart, Henry
		mir jafar, the then nawab of the Bengal Subah proved himself utterly unsuccessful and lost control over the administration.
		At the same time the company withdrew their support from Mir Jafar as it was doubted that he had been conspiring against the English.
		Vansittart chose mir qasim, son-in-law of Mir Jafar as the new nawab.
	banglapedia.net /HT/V_0018.HTM (901 words)

	Mir Jafar (mir jafar resources) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mir Jafarwas left smarting under this new insult while Siraj-Ud-Daulah was busy with his campaign against the British.
		Siraj-Ud-Saulah was soon on the run, retreating to Murshidabad and attempting to win back the favor of Mir Jafar and obtain the backing of the considerable military force still under Jafar's command.
		On the day of the Battle of Plassey, Siraj-Ud-Daulah faced off against the British, apparently with overwhelming force, but at the critical time Mir Jafar's men stood watching passively while the soldiers of Siraj-Ud-Daula were decimated by the smaller but much better armed Britsh forces.
	teoria.de.campo.unificado.pt.xanax-buy.be /en/Mir+Jafar (10214 words)

	Everything about Mir Jafar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		After Siraj-Ud-Daulah lost Battle of Plassey to the British because of the treachery of his former army chief Mir Jafar he escaped to Murshidabad and then to Patna by boat.
		He was eventually arrested by Mir Jafar's soldiers.
		The house continued to enjoy power and influence during the nawabi of Mir Jafar, but earned the displeasure of his successor Mir Qasim who ordered the assassination of two of the leading Seth Brothers in 1763.
	1373.de.wikimiki.org /en/Mir+Jafar (8807 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Mir Jafar was promised the nawabdom, and Omichand, through a forged signature of Watson (Watson refused to be a party to cheating), a huge sum.
		As the loyal Mir Mardan advanced to meet the British, Mir Jafar and two of his commanders stood by.
		Siraj-ud turned to Mir Jafar again; he advised the nawab to withdraw, and sent word to Clive secretly to push without delay.
	www.the-week.com /25jan30/currentevents_article10.htm (6472 words)

	murshidabad
		In 1757 AD a conspiracy between the Company and his uncle Mir Jafar led to defeat of his forces by the Company troops in the battle of
		Mir Jafar, who betrayed Siraj became the new puppet Nawab.
		It was built in 1837 by Duncan Macleod of the Bengal Engineers for the Nawabs of Bengal (descendants of Mir Jafar).
	www.wb.nic.in /westbg/murshid.html (667 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Empire Story by H. E. Marshall
		Mir Jafar, the commander-in-chief of Suraj-ud-Daula's army, was one of the discontented.
		At six o'clock in the morning of 23rd June 1757, the battle of Plassey began, and by five in the afternoon the huge Indian army with elephants and camels, horses and clumsy ox-drawn cannon, was fleeing from the field.
		But Mir Jafar, although he had got what he wanted, and was Nawab, soon found that it was not all a bed of roses.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=marshall&book=empire&story=plassey (1607 words)

	Roots: The Roots of Bengal
		In Nawáb Ja'far's rent-roll, however, the strength of the naval establishment (nawárá) consisted of 768 armed cruisers and boats, which were principally stationed at Dháká, to guard the coast against the Mags and foreign pirates; and the number of sailors included 923 Firingis, chiefly employed as gunners.
		Mir Jafar kept his troops out of the engagement, and after Siraj's murder nine days later, was made the Nawab Nazim.
		Mir Kasim did not get on well with the English, because he abolished duties on native boats plying on the Ganga to be on par with the boats of the Company and its officials.
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1bengal.html (13471 words)

	Battle of Buxar: The British Raj - Part II - Sify.com
		So Mir Kasim fled to Patna and took help from Nawab Shujauddaulah and the Emperor Shah Alam II with a view to recovering Bengal from the English.
		Mir Kasim fled again and led a wandering life till his death in 1777.
		Mir Jafar's son Najmuddulah was the successor but with the restriction that the entire administration will be controlled by the Deputy Subhedar who would be nominated by the English.
	sify.com /itihaas/fullstory.php?id=13258737 (398 words)

	It was Kanhoji Bhosle who led an incursion into the territory of Orissa or Katak taking advantage of the chaotic ...
		Mir Habib with a light Maratha force fell on Mursidabad and returned to Katva Loaded with booty worth two to three crores.
		Durlabhram and Mir Jafar the officers who were stantioned at midnapur were nervous and unable to check the Maratha inroads.
		Mir Habib was to be confirmed in the government of Orissa as the deputy Subhedar of Mursidabad.
	www.nagpuronline.com /nagpurcollectorate/gazette/history/raghu1rb.html (2739 words)

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