Episode 2 of 5

Massacre at the Patna Company offices

When
1763
Where
Company offices in Patna
Part of
Deposition and defeat of Mir Qasim in Bengal

Mir Qasim invaded the Company offices in Patna in 1763, killing 45 Europeans including the Resident.

Striking back against the Company, Qasim attacked its offices in Patna in 1763 and massacred 45 Europeans, among them the Resident. The legacy claim that he fled to Patna after a rout at Odwa Nala is not supported by the supplied passages, which record only this attack on the Company offices in the city.

Sources

  1. Mir Qasim Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-11

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.