The grant of Diwani in 1765 gave the British control over vast territories, bringing them into direct contact with previously unadministered or indirectly controlled frontier regions and their inhabitants. The Khasis inhabited the hills immediately north of the plains of Sylhet, a major economic and administrative center under British control post-Diwani.
With which one of the following mountain tribes did the British first come into contact with after the grant of Diwani in the year 1765?
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 2002 · Topic: East India Company and Nawab of Bengal (The Treaty of Allahabad (1765) and Grant of Diwani Rights)
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