[HISTORY SERIES] Murshid Quli Khan: The Former Brahmin who Founded Murshidabad

This is the first episode of a comprehensive history of Murshid Quli Khan, Aurangzeb's confidant and the first Nawab of Bengal

Prologue

IN HIS TESTIMONY to the Select Committee set up by the British Parliament to inquire into the excesses committed by the East India Company in Bengal, this is what Robert Clive said in 1773:

Consider the situation in which victory at Plassey had placed me. A great prince was dependent on my pleasure; an opulent city lay at my mercy; I walked throu…