Sirâj-ud-Daulah

Mîrzâ Muhammad Sirâj-ud-Daulah, more commonly known as Siraj ud-Daulah (1733 – July 2, 1757), is the last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.

The end of his reign marks the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia.

He is sometimes called, and his name rendered, "Sir Roger Dowler" or "Sir Roger Dowlah" by some of his British contemporaries, and "Sau Raja Dowla" by John Holwell, as the title of Nawab or Nabob is rendered "Nawale", and Allahabad becomes "Isle of Bats".

However these distorted early English renderings, among others like "Sepoy", are rebuked and ridiculed by later writers.

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