Mir Jafar (left) and his eldest son, Mir Miran (right).
Nawab Nazim of Bengal and Bihar
1st reign
2 July 1757 – 20 October 1760
Predecessor
Siraj ud-Daulah
Successor
Mir Qasim
2nd reign
25 July 1763 – 5 February 1765
Predecessor
Mir Qasim
Successor
Najimuddin Ali Khan
Born
1691 Delhi, Delhi Subah Mughal Empire
Died
5 February 1765(1765-02-05) (aged 73–74) Namak Haram Deorhi, Bengal Subah
Burial
Jafarganj Cemetery, West Bengal, India
Spouse
Shah Khanum (m. 1727, d. August 1779) Munni Begum (m. 1746, d. 10 January 1813) Rahat-un-nisa Begum (Mut'ah wife) Babbu Begum (d. 1809)
Issue
Sadiq Ali Khan Bahadur (Mir Miran)
Najimuddin Ali Khan
Najabut Ali Khan (Mir Phulwari)
Ashraf Ali Khan
Mubaraq Ali Khan
Hadi Ali Khan Bahadur
Fatima Begum
Misri Begum
Roshan-un-nisa Begum (Nishani Begum)
Husaini Begum
2 more daughters
Names
Syed Mir Muhammad Jafar Ali Khan Bahadaur
House
Najafi
Father
Syed Ahmed Najafi (Mirza Mirak)
Religion
Shia Islam[1][2][3]
Mir Syed Jafar Ali Khan Bahadur (c. 1691 – 5 February 1765) was a commander-in-chief or military general who reigned as the first dependent Nawab of Bengal of the British East India Company. His reign has been considered by many historians as the start of the expansion of British control of the Indian subcontinent in Indian history and a key step in the eventual British domination of vast areas of pre-partition India.
Mir Jafar served as the commander of the Bengali army under Siraj ud-Daulah, but betrayed him during the Battle of Plassey and ascended to the masnad after the British victory in 1757. Mir Jafar received military support from the East India Company until 1760, when he failed to satisfy various British demands. In 1758, Robert Clive discovered that Jafar had made a treaty with the Dutch East India Company at Chinsurah through his agent Khoja Wajid. Dutch ships of the line were also seen in the River Hooghly. Jafar's dispute with the British eventually led to the Battle of Chinsurah. British company official Henry Vansittart proposed that since Jafar was unable to cope with the difficulties, Mir Qasim, Jafar's son-in-law, should act as Deputy Subahdar. In October 1760, the company forced him to abdicate in favor of Qasim. However, the East India Company eventually overthrew Qasim as well due to disputes over trade policies. Jafar was restored as the Nawab in 1763 with the support of the company. Mir Qasim, however, refused to accept this and went to war against the company. Jafar ruled until his death on 5 February 1765 and lies buried at the Jafarganj Cemetery in Murshidabad, West Bengal.
Due to his role in helping the British colonize India, and the eventual downfall of the Mughal Empire, Mir Jafar is reviled in the Indian subcontinent as a traitor, especially among the Bengalis in both India and Bangladesh.
^S. A. A. Rizvi, A Socio-Intellectual History of Isna Ashari Shi'is in India, Vol. 2, pp. 45–47, Mar'ifat Publishing House, Canberra (1986).
^K. K. Datta, Ali Vardi and His Times, ch. 4, University of Calcutta Press, (1939)
^Andreas Rieck, The Shias of Pakistan, p. 3, Oxford University Press, (2015).
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