Treaty of Allahabad

These rights allowed the company to collect revenue directly from the people of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.

In return, the Company paid an annual tribute of twenty-six lakh rupees while securing for Shah Alam II the districts of Kora and Allahabad.

The accord also dictated that Shah Alam be restored to the province of Varanasi as long as he continued to pay a certain amount of revenue to the company.

The Nawab of Awadh Shuja ud Daulah also had to pay fifty lakhs of rupees as war indemnity to the East India Company.

Moreover, the two signed an alliance by which the company promised to support the Nawab against outside attacks provided he paid for services of the troops sent to his aid.

The Mughal emperor Shah Alam hands over the treaty of Allahabad to Robert Clive which transferred tax collecting rights in Bengal Subah to the East India Company , August 1765.