The year 1765 marked a turning point for The East India Company (EIC). Following the Battle of Buxar, the Treaty of Allahabad secured to the company the Diwani rights, the right to collect taxes on the Mughal emperor's behalf directly from the people in the eastern province of Bengal-Bihar-Orissa. The British began consolidating their hold on India in the wake of the company's military and diplomatic victories, building on more than a century and a half's worth of experience operating on the subcontinent.