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Drama in Plassey
Nemak Haram Deorhi. Photo: Sandip Hor
Nemak Haram Deorhi. Photo: Sandip Hor
Sandip Hor
14 JANUARY 2012 17:12 IST
UPDATED: 18 OCTOBER 2016 12:45 IST
It is from this West Bengal village that the journey of British rule in India began.
“This is where India was sold to the British,” tells my omniscient guide Quadir when we visit an abandoned mango grove in Plassey, a small village in West Bengal, which for the last 250 years has remained as a silent spectator of a drama that changed the fate of India.
History books account that so called drama as “Battle of Plassey”, which in 1757 was staged between Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daula, ruler undivided Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa and Lord Clive of East India Company.
Murshidabad, located 150 km away from Kolkata was then the bustling capital of Siraj's empire; now a shabby district town where almost every stone and brick has a story of lust and passion, obedience and conspiracy, power and greed to narrate. That's enough to lure visitors like me to land there on a weekend and browse through the impoverish townscape, dotted with ruined palaces, mosques, monuments, mausoleums, tomb and graveyards.
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