The company would be given important trading privileges by this farman.
Dismantle your fortification now as the French did on my orders.
We wont dismantle our fortification!
Surely, so it's a deal.
I have hatched a plot against the nawab. We'll overthrow him and make you the nawab. But in return we won't a large amount of money and trading privileges.
In 1717,a farman was passed by Farrukhsiyar that gave the British the right to carry out duty-free trade in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. They could also issue passes or dastaks for the free movement of goods
In anticipation of war with the French, who had a trading settlement in Chandernagore, British started fortifying Calcutta. Siraj-Ud-Daulah ordered both the British and French to dismantle their fortifications but the British disagreed and didn't dismantle their fortification.
Robert Clive hatched a plot with some influential men of the nawab's court to overthrow Siraj-Ud-Daulah. Mir Jafar who was the commander in chief of the nawab's army would be made the the Nawab of Bengal in return for a large amount of money and important trading privileges.