Which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. After the Treaty of Allahabad, the English East India Company was made the Diwan of Bengal.
2. Under the Dual Government of Bengal, the British had the power and resources without responsibility, while the Nawab had the responsibility of the administration, without power to discharge it.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
1 only
2 only
Both 1 and 2
Neither 1 nor 2
• The early mechanism of the establishment of the Company’s rule in Bengal followed the administrative system under the Mughals.
• The Mughal provincial administration had two main heads - nizamat and diwani.
• Broadly speaking, nizamat meant administration of law and order, and criminal justice; while diwani was the revenue administration and civil justice.
• The provincial Subadar was in charge of nizamat (he was also called nazim) and the diwan was in charge of the revenue administration.
• After the Treaty of Allahabad, the English East India Company was made the Diwan of Bengal, but Lord Clive choose not to take over the administration of Bengal directly.
• This responsibility was left to the Nawab’s Naib Diwan and Naib Nazim Muhammad Raza Khan.
• As Naib Nazim, he was to represent the nawab and as naib diwan, he was to represent the Company.
• Thus, the Nawab had to handle the entire responsibility for the civil and criminal justice administration.
• However, he had to function through Muhammad Raza Khan, who was placed under the superintendence, direction and control of the British Company.
• As the Diwan, the Company directly collected its revenue, while through the right to nominate the Deputy Nazim, it controlled the nizamat or the police or judicial powers.
• This arrangement was known as ‘Dual or Double Government’.
• Under this system, the British had the power and resources without responsibility, while the Nawab had the responsibility of the administration, without power to discharge it.
• Thus, the Nawab had to take all responsibility for bad governance.
• The revenue remained the sole earning of the Company in lieu of a meager annual payment to the Mughal emperor.
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