Administrative Reforms During British Rule In India

Dual System of Government (1765-72)

  • The Dual System of Government in Bengal was the brainchild of Lord Clive. At Murshidabad, there was a puppet Nawab sitting paying the company an annual allowance of Rs. 6 Lakh.
  • He left nothing for the Bengal than just a shadow authority and the real government came into the hands of the East India Company.
  • System of separate Diwan and Nizam is called Dual Administration. However, the real authority was East India Company in the Nizamat also.
  • The biggest fall out of this system was that the Indian Merchants were reduced to beggars on the ....
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