Battle of Plassey

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effect on

British history

  • TITLE: United Kingdom
    SECTION: Conflict abroad
    ...General Robert Clive captured the French settlement of Chandernagore and then, with the forces of the East India Company, defeated the army of Siraj-ud-Dawlah, the nawab (ruler) of Bengal, at the Battle of Plassey on June 23, 1757. The battle lasted only a few hours but decided the fate of India by establishing British dominance in Bengal and the Carnatic, the two most profitable regions of...

Indian history

  • TITLE: India
    SECTION: Revolution in Bengal


  • TITLE: Orissa or Odisha (state, India)
    SECTION: History
    ...of Bengal, but the greater part passed to the Marathas, who ruled much of South India between the 16th and 19th centuries. The Bengal sector came under British rule in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey; the Maratha sector was conquered by the British in 1803. Although after 1803 the British controlled the entire Oriya-speaking area, it continued to be administered as two units. It was not...

West Bengal

  • TITLE: West Bengal (state, India)
    SECTION: History
    In 1757 British forces under Robert Clive defeated those of the nawab (ruler) of Bengal, Sirāj al-Dawlah, in the Battle of Plassey. In 1765 the nominal Mughal emperor of northern India, Shah ʿĀlam II, granted to the British East India Company the dīwānī of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa—that is, the right to collect and...

occurrence at Plassey

  • TITLE: Plassey (India)
    historic village, east-central West Bengal state, northeastern India. It lies just east of the Bhagirathi River. Plassey was the scene of the decisive victory of British forces under Robert Clive over those of the nawab of Bengal, Sirāj al-Dawlah, in 1757. Dispatched from Madras (now Chennai) with reinforcements to reestablish British factories (trading stations) in Bengal, Clive was...

role of Clive

  • TITLE: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (British colonial administrator)