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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mir    
First Name(s)  Kasim    
Birth Year  ?    
Death Year  1777    
Entry  Mir Kasim Ali Khan : son-in-law of Mir Jafar : appointed Nawab Nazim of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa by the English in place of Mir Jafar, on Sep. 27, 1760 : but serious disputes soon arose between him and the English, regarding commerce and the conduct of the servants of the E. I. Co., which led to war : fortified Monghyr for his defence against the English : the English defeated his troops at Katwa on July 19, at Gheria on Aug. 1, 1763, and again at Udwanala : he left Monghyr, and at Patna ordered the massacre of the English prisoners there, 50 gentlemen and 100 others, on Oct. 5, 1763 : fled to Oudh to Shuja-ud-daula, the Wazir of Oudh, who refused to deliver him to the English : he then escaped to Rohilkund and took shelter with the Rana of Gohud : after staying there some years, he went to Jodhpur, and thence to Delhi to serve the Emperor Shah Alam, in 1774, but was disappointed : died at Kotwal, near Delhi, in 1777.     
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