Nawabs of Bengal

State · 1718–1761 CE · at its largest around 1744 CE

The hereditary rulers of Bengal, nominally Mughal governors but effectively independent, whose defeat at Plassey in 1757 opened the way to British East India Company control.

On its lands while it lasted

Battle of Plassey (1757 CE): East India Company forces under Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, beginning Company rule in Bengal.