The Mughal emperor Shah Alam hands a scroll to Robert Clive, the governor of Bengal (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Allahabad" class="extiw" title="en:Treaty of Allahabad">Treaty of Allahabad</a>), which transferred tax collecting rights in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the East India Company, August 1765
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Benjamin_West" class="extiw" title="w:en:Benjamin West"><span title="18th and 19th-century English painter">Benjamin West</span></a>
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