biographical details, achievement and vision of Robert clive
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The Lord Clive
KB FRSLord Clive in military uniform. The Battle of Plassey is shown behind him.
By Nathaniel Dance. National Portrait Gallery, London.Governor of the Presidency of Fort William, BengalIn office
1757–1760Preceded byRoger Drake
as PresidentSucceeded byHenry VansittartIn office
1765–1766Preceded byHenry VansittartSucceeded byHarry VerelstPersonal detailsBorn29 September 1725
Styche Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire, EnglandDied22 November 1774 (aged 49)
Berkeley Square, Westminster, LondonNationalityBritishAlma materMerchant Taylors' SchoolAwardsKBMilitary serviceAllegiance Kingdom of Great Britain / British EmpireService/branch British ArmyYears of service1746–1774RankMajor-GeneralUnitBritish East India CompanyCommandsCommander-in-Chief of IndiaBattles/warsWar of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Madras
Second Carnatic War
Siege of Arcot
Battle of Arnee
Battle of Chingleput
Seven Years' War
Battle of Chandannagar
Battle of Plassey
Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, Commander-in-Chief of British India, was a British officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing a large swath of South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan) and the wealth that followed, for the British East India Company. In the process, he also turned himself into a multi-millionaire. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures setting in motion what would later become British India. Blocking impending French mastery of India, and eventual British expulsion from the continent, Clive improvised a military expedition that ultimately enabled the East India Company to adopt the French strategy of indirect rule via puppet government. Hired by the company to return a second time to India, Clive conspired to secure the Company's trade interests by overthrowing the locally unpopular heir to the throne of "Bengal," the richest state in India, richer than Britain, at the time. Back in England, he sat as a Tory Member of Parliament in London.[1]