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how Robert Clive expanded the British territories

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starring Ronald Colman, see Clive of India (film).

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 aBritish officer and privateer who established the military and political supremacy of theEast 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 withWarren 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]

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