The Bureaucratic Corruption Leading to the Fall of Bengal (1700-1757)
Bureaucratic corruption causes the breakdown of the chain ofcommand among the administrators, resulting in the weakness and fragilityof state machineries. Consequently, they lose sovereignty, and they submitto or are dominated by foreign corporate and political powers. This paperadopts methods of hi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Intellectual discourse
Year: 2020, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 757-777 |
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| Summary: | Bureaucratic corruption causes the breakdown of the chain ofcommand among the administrators, resulting in the weakness and fragilityof state machineries. Consequently, they lose sovereignty, and they submitto or are dominated by foreign corporate and political powers. This paperadopts methods of historical analysis to explore the endemic forces whichled to Bengal falling under the suzerainty of the rapacious British East IndiaCompany. The paper argues that the central administration failed to allocateand discharge various executive offices and responsibilities, due to extremedependencies among both the central and provincial governments. The presentwork maintains that administrators’ wholesale rigging attitude exacerbated thealready declining politico-economic condition of the Muslim ruling elites ofthe region, eventually facilitating a power shift away from the traditional elitetoward the British colonizers by 1757. |
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| ISSN: | 2289-5639 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Intellectual discourse
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