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Mir Muhammad Dja'far Khan

(circa 1691-1765), Nawab of Bengal

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Mir Jafar was ruler of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. With the assistance of the British under Robert Clive, Jafar succeeded Siraj-Ud-Daulah as the eighth Nawab of Bengal. In return for British help in the plot that brought him the throne, Mir Jafar was obliged to cede some territory around Calcutta, to confirm and strengthen British commercial privileges, and to make huge public and private payments as rewards and indemnities to his British allies. These payments led to the state's financial ruin and his authority quickly eroded. After Clive's departure in 1760, Jafar made concessions to the British that led to his financial and political downfall. At his death he was addicted to opium and suffered from leprosy.

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Robert Clive, Mir Muhammad Dja'far Khan and his son Mir Miran (Sadiq Ali Khan Bahadur), with a number of British and Mughal attendants, after the Battle of Plassey, 1757, by Francis Hayman - NPG 5263

Robert Clive, Mir Muhammad Dja'far Khan and his son Mir Miran (Sadiq Ali Khan Bahadur), with a number of British and Mughal attendants, after the Battle of Plassey, 1757

by Francis Hayman
oil on canvas, circa 1760
On display in Room 10 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 5263

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