Mir Qasim had repaid the British with…
October 1763 CE
To please the British, Mir Qasim has robbed everybody, confiscated lands, reduced Mir Jafar's purse and depleted the treasury.
However, he had soon tired of British interference and endless avarice and like Mir Jafar before him, yearns to break free of the British influence.
He has shifted his capital from Murshidabad to Munger in present-day Bihar, where he has raised an independent army, financing it by streamlining tax collection.
He opposes the British East India Company's position that their imperial Mughal license (dastak) means that they can trade without paying taxes (other local merchants with dastaks are required to pay up to forty percent of their revenue as tax).
Frustrated at the British refusal to pay these taxes, Mir Qasim abolishes taxes on the local traders as well.
This upsets the advantage that the British traders have been enjoying so far, and hostilities build up.
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