why did the battle of plassey take place and who were involved it? What was the result?
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it is an history question, why you have posted in English
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The Battle of Plassey [2] was a major battle that took place on 23 June 1757 at Palashi, Bengal. It was an important British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his Frenchallies. It let the British East India Company take control of this part of the Indian subcontinent. Their area of control grew over a large part of the Indies in the next hundred years.The battle took place after the attack and plunder of Calcutta by Siraj-ud-daulah and the Black Hole tragedy (Sir William Meredith, during the Parliamentary inquiry into Robert Clive's actions in IndiaThis is thought to be one of the most important battles for the control of the Indian subcontinent by the colonialpowers. The British now had influenceover the Nawab. They also got a lot of revenue from trade. The British used this revenue to increase their military power. They pushed the other Europeancolonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia. This was a sign of the expansion the British Empirein Asia.
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