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Can you explain how, after acquiring Diwani, the government of the East India Company functioned like ‘an Indian ruler’?

  • UPSC 2022
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

The Treaty of Allahabad (1765) converted a trading corporation into a territorial sovereign that chose, for reasons of prudence rather than sentiment, to rule in the idiom of the power it had displaced.

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  • Revenue administration: Company as Diwan, working through Indian agency
  • Nizamat in name, Company control in substance
  • A judiciary in the Mughal mould
  • An army and territorial posture like any Indian power
  • Patronage of elites and cultural continuity
  • The limits of the "Indian ruler" facade

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