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The East India Company goes in to the business of government
Bengal was given to the EIC - and with it went the right to raise taxes on the local population.
The EIC would find that taxes were easier to collect and less volatile than trading.
A belated attempt to reassert Mughal control was defeated at the bottle of Buxar in 1764. Although the EIC kept the Mughal Emperor in post.