write about Battle of 'Buxar' and Battle of 'Plassey' how did British use the Indian army in India against India
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Bengal was the most fertile and therichest amongst India's provinces that attracted the East India Company by the great prospects of profitable to it offered.
• The firman of 1717 issued by the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar confirmed the trading privileges of the East India Company.
• These rights included the freedom to import and export British goods in Bengal without paying taxes, under right to issue dastaks for movement of such goods.
• The company officials engaged in private trades required to pay taxes similar to those by in Indian merchants.
• The officials refused to pay tax on their private trade and they misused the power to issue dastaks in order to avoid taxes on their private trade.
• The Firman intensified the conflict between the Company and the Nawabs of Bengal.
• Siraj-ud-daulah was administrating this state and ordered English and the French to demolish the fortification at Calcutta.
• The French immediately obliged his order but the British did not obey him.
• The refusal of British to do so enraged him; he attacked the English Factory at Cassimbazar and seized it.
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• The expelled English took refuge to Fulta (Odisha) and and waited for military aid to arrive.
• After hearing the capture of Calcutta the company officials at Madras sent a large Military expedition under Robert Clive and Admiral Watson.
• Without any serious fighting they recaptured Calcutta, the discomfited English exploited the internal situation in Bengal by intrigue and treachery.
• They conspired with Mir Jafar the commander in chief of Siraj-ud-daulah and also one of the leading men of Nawab's court such as Manikchand, Jagat Sheth.
• With their support the English forces defeated Siraj ud daulah in the Battle of Plassey fought in 1757.
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• The English became the real masters of Bengal. Mir Jafar was only a puppet in the hands of the English.
• Mir Jafar was unable to satisfy the company's new heavy demands as he had purchased his position.
• When we protested, the company deposed him and placed his son-in-law Mir Qasim, as the new Nawab of Bengal.
• Mir Qasim soon realised is dependence on the company and tried to free himself from the control.
• Mir Qasim formed an alliance with Shuja Ud Daulah the Nawab of Awadh and Shah Alam II the Mughal emperor.
• In 1764, the battle was fought and Buxar between the Company forces and the joint forces of Mir Qasim and his allies.
• The Battle of Buxar resulted in the defeat of Mir Qasim and Mir Zafar was reinstated.
- The Combined Indian Army was defeated in the battle of Buxar fought on 22 October 1764.
- Battle of Buxar proved to be an ephemeral event of Indian history.
- The battle of Buxar was fought between Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal.
- Nawab of Oudh Sujauddaula and the joint army of Mughal ruler Shah Alam II and the British.
- This was the decisive battle that established the British as the ruler of India for the next two hundred years.
- This war was the result of the decree and knockdown by the British and their expansionist business aspirations.
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