It is because, we have read wrong history that was written by the British. British won the battle at Palasy by bribery and they put Mir Zafar on the throne of Murshidabad. Subsquently, history was written by them and that history blames Mir Zafar as the great betrayer. So much so that from my childhood I grew up with the knowledge that all Muslims are betrayers. Luckily I was interested in history and later on I came to know that the real betrayers were all Hindu businessmen (Jagat Seth, Umi Chand) and few big Zamindars including Rani Bhavani; only Muslim in this group of conspiratora was Ghasiti Begum (a relative of Shiraz). It is also true that most of the people were fed up with Shiraz because of his weak character - particularly his bad habit of womanising, which was creating terror in villages of Bengal. Apparantly, Mir Zafar was more interested to get rid of the weak charactered Shiraz than to sit on the throne. But the fact remains that the names of the real conspirators are not kmown to the public and Mir Zafar was made a scape goat by the Britishers, which helped them to follow the policy of divide and rule. Regards
