1757 AD
Plassey and the East India Company’s territorial turn
British Empire · Companies, trade & extraction · War & conquest
Company forces led by Robert Clive defeated Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah through battle, conspiracy, and defections. Plassey did not conquer all India, but it opened the political and fiscal control of Bengal consolidated by Buxar and the grant of the diwani in 1764–1765
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