Mir Qasim

Mir Qasim

Mir Qasim (d. 8 May 1777) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763. He was installed as Nawab with the support of the British East India Company, replacing Mir Jafar, his father-in-law, who had himself been supported earlier by the East India Company after his role in winning the Battle of Plassey for the British. However, Mir Jafar eventually ran into disputes with the East India Company and attempted to form an alliance with the Dutch East India Company instead. The British eventually defeated the Dutch at Chinsura and overthrew Mir Jafar, replacing him with Mir Qasim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mir Qasim has received more than 647,919 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mir Qasim is the 13,090th most popular politician (down from 12,188th in 2019).