বাঙ্গলারাজ্যে প্রবাদবাক্যের ন্যায় প্রচলিত হইয়াছিল এবং সকলেই তৎকালে মুর্শিদকুলীর দৃষ্টি-আকর্ষণের জন্য রাজস্ব-সংক্রান্ত বিষয়ে ব্যুৎপত্তি দেখাইতে চেষ্টা
তৎকালে মহম্মদ রেজা খা মুসলমানসাধারণের ও নন্দকুমার হিন্দুসাধারণের যে মুখপাত্র ছিলেন, তাহা সকল ঐতিহাসিকই একবাক্যে স্বীকার করিয়া থাকেন। তাহার পর নন্দকুমার যে বৈদেশিকগণের হস্ত হইতে স্বদেশ ও স্বীয় প্রভু মীরজাফরের উদ্ধারসাধনের জন্য চেষ্টা করিয়া ইংরেজজাতির চক্ষুশূল হইয়াছিলেন, ইহা জলন্ত সত্য—আধুনিক বাঙ্গালী লেখকগণের কম্পিত উক্তি নহে। যাঁহারা সে সময়ের ইতিহাস বা কাগজপত্র পাঠ করিয়াছেন, তাহারা ইহা উত্তমরূপে বুঝিতে পারবেন। আমরা প্রথমতঃ তাহার সম্বন্ধে হেস্টিংস কিরূপ মত প্রকাশ করিয়াছিলেন, তাহা উদ্ধৃত করিয়া দেখাইতেছি—
“He (Mr. Hastings) thinks it but justice to make a distinction between the violation of a trust, and an offence committed against our government, by a man who owed it no allegiance, nor was indebted for protection; but on the contrary, was the actual servant and minister of a master whose interest naturally suggested that kind of policy which sought by foreign aids, and the diminution of the power of the Company, to raise his own consequence and re-establish his authority. He has never been charged with any infidelity to the Nabob Meer Jaffir, the constant tenor of whose politics, from his first accession to the nizamat till his death correspond in all points so exactly with the artifices which were detected in his minister, that they may be as fairly ascribed to the one as to the other; their immediate object was, beyond question the aggrandisement of the former, though the latter had ultimately an equal interest in their success. The opinion which the Nabob himself entertained, of the services and of the fidelity of Nuncomar evidently appeared, in the distinguished works which he continued to shew him of his favour and confidence to the latest hour of his life. His conduct in the succeeding administration appears not only to have been dictated by the same principles, but if we may be allowed to speak favourably of any measures which oppose the views of our government, and aimed at the support of our adverse interest, surely it was not only not culpable but even praise-worthy. He endeavoured (as appears by the extracts before us) to give consequence to his Master, and to pave the way to his independence by attaining a firman from the king for his appointment to the subaship; and he opposed the promotion of Mahamed Raza Cawn because he looked upon it as a supercession of the rights and authority of the Nabob.” (Extract of the proceedings of the Committee of Circuit at Cossimbazar, dated 28th of July 1772).
