The 0% Tax Move That Caused a War - Battle of Buxar - Part 1

How did a private corporation conquer an entire country using its own money? Forget everything you were taught about Plassey. The British Empire wasn’t born from a single military triumph—it began with history’s most audacious corporate shakedown. At the 1764 Battle of Buxar, an outnumbered East India Company shattered a fractured 40,000-man imperial alliance in a single morning. TIMESTAMPS- [00:00] Introduction: Recap of Plassey and the reality of the East India Company's corporate nature [01:13] Mir Jafar's financial ruin: Bleeding the royal treasury dry to pay British compensation demands [02:22] The 1717 Farrukhsiyar Firman and how British clerks abused "dastaks" for tax-free private trade [03:25] The British replace Mir Jafar with his capable, reform-minded son-in-law, Mir Kasim [04:02] Mir Kasim's reforms: Centralizing the capital, hiring European mercenaries, and modernizing the army [05:32] The masterstroke of malicious compliance: Mir Kasim abolishes internal taxes for everyone [06:26] Outbreak of war in 1763 and the reinstatement of a broken Mir Jafar [07:00] The Battle of Geria and the tragic escalation leading to the Patna Massacre #BattleOfBuxar #EastIndiaCompany #IndianHistory #Documentary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scheming Weasel (faster version) by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/scheming-weasel Music promoted by Audio Library    • Scheming Weasel (faster version) – Kevin M...   "Scheming Weasel (faster version)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Investigations by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ "Drums of the Deep" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...