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| | #REDIRECT [[Jagat Seth family]] |
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| {{Infobox person
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| |title = Jagat Seth
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| Original name =mahatab chand
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| | caption = Jagat Seth's house
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| | birth_name = Fateh Chand
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| | death_date = 1652
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| | death_place = [[Murshidabad]], [[Bengal]], [[Indian subcontinent]]
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| | nationality = Bengal ( Under Nawab of Bengal)
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| | occupation = Business
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| | known_for = Role in [[Battle of Plassey]]
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| [[File:House Of Jagat Seth Complex - Mahimapur - Murshidabad 2017-03-28 6165-6169.tif|thumb|House of Jagat Seth]]
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| The '''Jagat Seths''' belongs to [[Jain]] family and the title of the eldest son of the family. The family sometimes referred to as the House of Jagat Seth, were a wealthy business, banking and [[Money-lender|money lender]] family from [[Murshidabad]], [[Bengal region]] in the eastern part of the [[Indian subcontinent]], during the time of [[Nawab]] [[Siraj ud-Daulah]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jagat Seth|url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/cover/2020/08/13/bankrolling-a-battle.html}}</ref>
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| == The title ==
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| Jagat Seth was a title conferred by the [[Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad|Nawab of Bengal]] and can be interpreted as "banker or merchant of the world".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvaGuaJIJgoC&q=%22Jagat+Seth%22+meaning&pg=PA282|title=India Before Europe|last1=Asher|first1=Catherine B.|last2=Talbot|first2=Cynthia|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80904-7|pages=282|language=en}}</ref>
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| House of Jagat Seth Museum contains personal possessions of Jagat Seth and his family including coins of the bygone era, [[muslin]] and other extravagant clothes, and [[Banarasi sari|Banarasi saris]] embroidered with gold and silver threads.
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| Jagat Seth, also the title for the powerful moneylender family he belonged to, looked after the mint and treasury accounts of Bengal during the Nawabi period. He played a key role in the conspiracy involving the imprisonment and ultimate killing of Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah. His house, complete with a secret tunnel as well as an underground chamber, where illegal trade plans were hatched, is what has been converted into the aforementioned museum.
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| It is said that the amount of wealth he had back then was greater than the wealth of all banks of England put together.
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| == Death ==
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| Jagat Seth Mahtab Rai and his cousin Maharaj Swaroop Chand were captured and shot dead on the orders of [[Mir Qasim]] shortly before the [[Battle of Buxar]] in 1764. Jagat Seth was considered to be a traitor as he financed the British during the [[Battle of Plassey]], which led to the death of [[Siraj ud-Daulah]] and the eventual start of the [[British Raj]].
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| ==References==
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| {{Commons category|Jagat Seth}} | | {{Commons category|Jagat Seth}} |
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.marwar.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-jagat-sheths/ The Rise and Fall of the Jagat Seths]
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| * [https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/bengal-banker-jagat-seth-who-gave-loans-to-east-india-company-financial-tips-to-aurangzeb/486979/ Bengal banker Jagat Seth who gave loans to East India Company, financial tips to Aurangzeb] The Print
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