🔆BATTLE OF BUXAR (1764)
✅REASONS • Misuse of Dastaks by company servants.
🔸Imperial Farman gave right to trade in Bengal without paying transit dues or tolls.
🔸 Servants sold Dastaks to friendly merchants.
🔸 Hence, Mir Kasim abolished all duties.
🔸Tussle led to war between company and Mir Kasim in 1763. He fled to Awadh.
🔸Formed an alliance with Nawab of Awadh; Shuja-ud-daula and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II.
✅BATTLE COURSE:English army led by Hector Munro.
✅RESULTS :Short and decisive battle won by the English army under Hector Munro.
✅OTHER :
🔸 Mir Jafar placed in throne as a mere puppet.
🔸 British supremacy was established in Northern India.
