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Editorial atlas · Company Rule

India Map 1765 CE — Historical Map & Timeline

A commercial corporation turns revenue, armies and alliances into expanding colonial power.

The interactive map shows the atlas’s nearest drawn reconstruction (c. 1793 CE). Frontiers moved in between, so use the list of powers below for 1765 CE.

Who ruled India in 1765 CE?

In 1765 CE, power in the subcontinent was shared among 10 major states and dynasties. Dates are conventional estimates.

What happened in India around 1765 CE?

Major Historical Milestones in 1765 CE

Historical Events & Sourced Records (1765 CE)

Buxar and the Diwani turn victory into fiscal rule

At Buxar, Company forces defeated the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Shuja al-Dawlah and Mughal emperor Shah Alam II. The following settlement granted the Company revenue-collecting rights in Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.

The Company now financed its army from Indian revenues while governing through overlapping Mughal and regional institutions. This hybrid arrangement concealed a major transfer of power behind familiar administrative forms.

Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Battle of Buxar

1765 ईस्वी में भारत का नक्शा: कंपनी राज

1765 ईस्वी का यह इंटरैक्टिव नक्शा कंपनी राज के समय का भारत दिखाता है। एक व्यापारिक कंपनी राजस्व, सेना और संधियों से औपनिवेशिक सत्ता बन जाती है।

1765 ईस्वी में भारत पर किसका शासन था? मुग़ल साम्राज्य, मराठा स्वराज्य और साम्राज्य, ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी का शासन, हैदराबाद रियासत (निज़ाम), मैसूर राज्य, मेवाड़, अहोम राज्य, पुर्तगाली भारत, त्रावणकोर, अवध।

1765 mein Bharat ke pramukh rajya: Mughal Empire, Maratha Swarajya and Empire, East India Company rule. Ye Company Raj ka daur tha.

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