why did siraj ud daulah ask the British to pull down illegal fortification
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Siraj Ud Daulah, fearing that such preparations could defy his supremacy in the region, sent a message to the British governor ordering him to cease all work immediately and to destroy the newly built defences.
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The Mughal Nawab Ali Vardi Khan had governed the Indian provinces of Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar since 1735. This nawab, like all others, had become virtually independent from the Mughal Empire.
At the death of Ali Vardi Khan, his great nephew Siraj Ud Daulah inherited the function. This new nawab was not a friend of the British. The fact that his most serious competitors for the throne received asylum at Madras (present-day Chennai) from the East India Company worsened the relations between Siraj Ud Daulah and the British even further.
At the beginning of April 1756, the British authorities at Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) began repairing the fortifications of the settlement in preparation for a likely war with France. Siraj Ud Daulah, fearing that such preparations could defy his supremacy in the region, sent a message to the British governor ordering him to cease all work immediately and to destroy the newly built defences. On receipt of the governor's reply, Siraj Ud Daulah rejected his explanations and ordered his troops to prepare for a campaign; and in a few days he left his capital, Murshidabad, at the head of an army 50,000 strong, and advanced on the British settlement of Calcutta.