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1. Battle of Plassey
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2. Introduction
• The Battle of Plassey (Pâlāshīr
Juddha) was a battle that took
place on June 23, 1757, on the
banks of the Bhagirathi River,
about 150 km north of Calcutta. It
is near Murshidabad, then the
capital of the Nawab of Bengal in
India. Pâlāshir, an extravagant red
flowering tree known as "Flame
of the forest," gives its name to a
small village near the battlefield.
A phonetically accurate
romanizing of the Bengali name
would be Battle of Palashi, but
the spelling "Plassey" is now
conventional.

3. Growing French influence
 Growing on the sidelines
was the French influence,
at the urging of the
enterprising French
Governor-General Joseph
François Dupleix, at the
court of the Nawab. This
was resulting in increasing
French trade in Bengal.
They lent the Nawab some
French soldiers to operate
heavy artillery pieces.

4. Ahmad Shah Abdali
• At the same time, Siraj Ud Daulah
was facing conflicts on two fronts.
On his Western border was the
advancing army of the Afghan,
Ahmad Shah Abdali who had
captured and looted Delhi in
1756.
• So although he was humiliated by
the Treaty, Siraj Ud Daulah sent
the better part of his troops west
under the command of his
general, Raja Ram Narain.

5. Court intrigue
• In the midst of all of this, there was an
ongoing court intrigue at Siraj Ud Daulah's
court at Murshidabad. Siraj was not a
particularly well-loved ruler. Young (he
succeeded his father in April, 1756 at age 27)
and impetuous, he was prone to quickly
make enemies. The most dangerous of these
was his wealthy and influential aunt, Ghaseti
Begum (Meherun-Nisa), who wanted
another nephew, Shawkat Jang, installed as
Nawab.
• Mir Jafar, commander-in-chief of the army,
was also uneasy with Siraj, and was courted
assiduously by Ghaseti. Eventually, through
the connivance of traders such as Amichand
(who had suffered as a result of the siege of
Calcutta), and William Watts, Mir Jafar was
brought into the British fold.

6. Company policy
 The Company had long decided that a change of
regime would be conducive to their interests in
Bengal. In 1752, Robert Orme, in a letter to Clive,
noted that the company would have to remove Siraj's
grandfather, Alivardi Khan, in order to prosper.[4]
 After the premature death of Alivardi Khan in April
1756, his nominated successor was Siraj-ud-Daulah, a
grandson whom Alivardi had adopted. The
circumstances of this transition gave rise to
considerable controversy and the British began
supporting the intrigues of Alivardi's eldest daughter,
Ghaseti Begum against that of his grandson, Siraj.
 Instructions dated October 13, 1756, from Fort St.
George instructed Robert Clive, "to effect a junction
with any powers in the province of Bengal that might
be dissatisfied with the violence of the Nawab's
government or that might have pretensions to the
Nawabship." Accordingly, Robert was negotiating with
two potential contenders, one of Siraj's generals, Yar
Latif Khan, and Siraj's grand-uncle and army chief, Mir
Jafar Ali Khan, through William Watts, chief of the
Kasimbazar factory of the Company, who was
proficient in Bengali, and Persian languages.

7. • On April 23, 1757, the Select
Committee of the Board of
Directors of the British East India
Company approved Coup
d'état as its policy in Bengal.
• Mir Jafar, negotiating through an
Armenian merchant, Khwaja
Petruse, was the Company's final
choice. Finally, on June 5, 1757, a
written agreement was signed
between the Company,
represented by Clive, and Mir
Jafar, ensuring that Mir Jafar
would be appointed Nawab of
Bengal, once Siraj Ud Daulah was
deposed.

8. Troops
• The British army was
vastly outnumbered,
consisting of 2,200
Europeans and 800 native
Indians and a small
number of guns. The
Nawab had an army of
about 50,000 with some
heavy artillery operated
by about
40 French soldiers sent by
the French East India
Company.

9. Aftermath
• The Battle of Plassey is
considered as a starting
point to the events that
established the era of
British dominion and
conquest in India.