short note on events on battle of plassey
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the battle of plassey was fought between the British and siraj ud daulah
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Combatants: The British East India Company against Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and a small French force. The British were assisted by traitors in the Nawab's high command.
Generals: Colonel Robert Clive against Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Robert Clive of the British East India Company was actually the one who was declared victor of the Battle of Plassey, which took place 70 miles north of Calcutta in 1757. Clive, headed 1,000 English and 2,000 Indian (sepoy) soldiers. He, with eight pieces of artillery, routed 50,000 soldiers and 50 French-manned cannons of his opponent Siraj-ud-Daula, the Governor, or Nawab of Bengal. It was the victory of Plassey which established British supremacy in Bengal.
Clive thought that the best way to make safe the Company's interests in Bengal was to replace Siraj with a new and more docile nawab. He found a candidate in an unhappy elderly general named Mir Jafar and after complicated conspiratorial talks and the promise of huge bribes to all concerned, a secret agreement was smuggled into the women's quarters of Mir Jafar's house, which was being watched by Siraj's spies, and Mir Jafar signed it.
How the war was concluded?
Siraj-ud-daula was killed by his own people and Mir Jafar replaced him. Clive, who became master of Bengal, skilfully encouraged Mir Jafar's distinguishable authority while keeping him on strings. The conflict at Plassey was crucial to the East India Company's triumph over its French rivals and, in the longer term, to the establishment of British rule in India.
Aftermath of the War
The British government made Clive the Baron of Plassey. Events that developed after Clive's victory at the Battle of Plassey would change the British East India Company from a trading company to a governing power and draw Britain to conquer the whole of India. Thus, the Battle of Plassey was a historic turning point, and its principal participant Robert Clive, an empire builder.
Generals: Colonel Robert Clive against Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Robert Clive of the British East India Company was actually the one who was declared victor of the Battle of Plassey, which took place 70 miles north of Calcutta in 1757. Clive, headed 1,000 English and 2,000 Indian (sepoy) soldiers. He, with eight pieces of artillery, routed 50,000 soldiers and 50 French-manned cannons of his opponent Siraj-ud-Daula, the Governor, or Nawab of Bengal. It was the victory of Plassey which established British supremacy in Bengal.
Clive thought that the best way to make safe the Company's interests in Bengal was to replace Siraj with a new and more docile nawab. He found a candidate in an unhappy elderly general named Mir Jafar and after complicated conspiratorial talks and the promise of huge bribes to all concerned, a secret agreement was smuggled into the women's quarters of Mir Jafar's house, which was being watched by Siraj's spies, and Mir Jafar signed it.
How the war was concluded?
Siraj-ud-daula was killed by his own people and Mir Jafar replaced him. Clive, who became master of Bengal, skilfully encouraged Mir Jafar's distinguishable authority while keeping him on strings. The conflict at Plassey was crucial to the East India Company's triumph over its French rivals and, in the longer term, to the establishment of British rule in India.
Aftermath of the War
The British government made Clive the Baron of Plassey. Events that developed after Clive's victory at the Battle of Plassey would change the British East India Company from a trading company to a governing power and draw Britain to conquer the whole of India. Thus, the Battle of Plassey was a historic turning point, and its principal participant Robert Clive, an empire builder.
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