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“The Dual System of Government was a complete failure from the outset. In the first place, the abuse of the private trade reached a greater height than ever. In the second place, the demands of the Company for the increase led to gross oppression of the peasantry.” Examine.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

After the Treaty of Allahabad (1765), Robert Clive engineered the Dual System of Government (also called Diarchy) in Bengal — an arrangement that looked ingenious on paper but collapsed within seven years under the weight of its own contradictions.

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  • Power Divorced from Responsibility: The Structural Root of Failure
  • Abuse of Private Trade
  • Oppression of the Peasantry and Revenue Extraction
  • Collapse of Law and Justice
  • The Case for Clive's "Political Sagacity"

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