He was clearly a man of enormous reach and influence with the Mughals. So why did he keep going out of his way to help Clive and the British? It is because he had done business with them. The newly founded city of Calcutta, which was under British control, was where the Jain and Hindu baniyaskept their money and papers. They trusted the rule of law that the British brought to their possessions. They knew from their fellow baniyasin the west how carefully the British managed trade in their new city of Bombay. They observed the fact that the British risked life to make sure that a violation on their sovereignty, such as the Black Hole incident, was punished.