The Battle of Plassey was a battle that took place on June 23, 1757, on the banks of the Bhagirathi

River, about 150 km north of Calcutta.The battle was between Siraj Ud Daulah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the forces of the British East India Company. SirajSiraj-udud-Daulah's army commander d h had dd defected f t d to t the th British, B iti h causing i his hi army to collapse. After this defeat, the entire province of Bengal passed to the Company, Company and this battle is today seen as one of the pivotal battles leading to British Empire in India.

As a result of the battle of Plassey, the French were no longer a significant force in Bengal. In 1759, the British defeated a larger French garrison at Masulipatam Masulipatam, , securing the Northern Circars. Circars. By 1759, Mir Jafar felt that his position as a subordinate to the British could not b t be tolerated. l t d He H started t t d encouraging i the th Dutch D t h to t advance against the British and eject them from Bengal. In late 1759, 1759 the Dutch sent seven large ships and 1400 men from Java to Bengal under the pretext of reinforcing their Bengal g settlement of Chinsura even though g Britain and Holland were not officially at war.

Matters came to head when the quick quick-tempered Siraj -ud - daulah d l h succeeded d d the th throne th of f Bengal. B l He H demanded d d d of English that they should trade on the same basis as in the times of Murshid quli Khan. The English refused to d so and do d instead i d started d building b ildi fortification f ifi i in i Calcutta without the permission of the Nawab. The battle of Plassey y soon followed in 1757 in which the Nawab was defeated and British placed Mir Zafar ,a puppet Nawab in SirajSiraj-udud-daulah's place. The Battle of Plassey y resulted in consolidation of British mastery in Bengal. This enhanced their prestige and enabled them to cherish their future imperial designs in India The revenues of Bengal helped them to reorganize India. their army and meet the expenditure incurred in the subsequent wars with the other states. It strengthened the British against French resulting in the latter latter's s final elimination from India.

The Battle Of Plassey was fought in 1757 A.D. The forces of English East India Company defeated SirajSiraj-ududdaulah, the Nawab of Bengal in a battle on the field of Plassey,about 30 km from Murshidabad. The Company had secured valuable privileges in 1717 under d a royal l farman f by b the th Mughal M h l Emperor E whereby h b they could export or import their goods in Bengal without paying taxes and the right to issue passes or dastaks for the movement of such goods. This farman was a p perpetual p source of conflict between the Company p y and the Nawabs of Bengal.

Clive, however, initiated immediate offensive operations by land and sea and defeated the much larger Dutch force on 25 November 1759 in the Battle of Chinsura. Chinsura. The British then deposed Mir Jafar and installed Mir Qasim as the Nawab of Bengal. Bengal. The British were now the paramount European power in Bengal. When Clive returned to England due to ill ill-health, he was rewarded with an Irish peerage, peerage, as Lord Clive, Baron of Plassey and also obtained a seat in the English House of Commons. Commons.

In southern India, the Third Carnatic War continued with several naval skirmishes taking place off the Coromandel Coast. Fort St. David was taken by the French on 2 June 1758 by de Lally. Lally. In November 1758, the French started siege operations on Madras until they were forced to raise the siege in February 1760 when a squadron under Admiral Pocock arrived to reinforce the British. British The struggle continued in areas of the Deccan and Hyderabad such as Arcot Arcot, , Wandewash Wandewash, , Tanjore and Cuddalore Cuddalore, , culminating in 1761 when Col. Eyre Coote defeated a French garrison under de Lally, supported by Hyder Ali at Pondicherry Pondicherry. . The French were returned Pondicherry in 1763 by way of the Treaty of Paris but they never again regained their former stature in India. The British would, i effect, in ff emerge as rulers l of f the h subcontinent b i in i subsequent years.

The Battle of Plassey was a decisive British East India Company victory over the Nawab of g and his French allies, establishing g Bengal British rule of India for the next 190 years. The battle took place on 23 June 1757 at Palashi, W Bengal, West B l India, I di on the h banks b k of f the h Bhagirathi River, about 150 km north of Calcutta near Murshidabad, Calcutta, Murshidabad then the capital of the Nawab of Bengal. The opponents were Siraj Ud Daulah, Daulah the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company.

The battle was waged during the Seven Years' War(1756 War(1756 1763) and in a mirror of their European rivalry the French East India Company sent a small contingent to fight against the British East India Company SirajCompany. Siraj-ud ud-Daulah had a numerically superior force, and made its stand at Plassey. The British, worried about being outnumbered and not above some bribery, reached out to SirajSiraj-ud ud-Daulah Daulah's s deposed army chief Mir Jafar, along with others such as Yar Latif and Rai Durlabh. Mir Jafar thus assembled his troops near the b ttl fi ld but battlefield, b t made d no move to t actually t ll join j i the th battle, b ttl causing Siraj Siraj-udud-Daulah's army to be defeated. Siraj Siraj-ududDaulah fled, eventually to be captured and executed. As a result, l the h entire i province i of f Bengal B l fell f ll to the h Company, with Mir Jafar appointed as their puppet Nawab.