# Battle of Plassey
**प्लासी का युद्ध**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/plassey-1757/
- Chapter: [The Mughals and their rivals](https://indianepics.online/chapter/mughal.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 1757 CE
- Where: Plassey battlefield, near Palashi, West Bengal (23.8, 88.25)
- Tags: war, colonial, political

## Summary

Clive's Company army defeats Siraj ud-Daulah when Mir Jafar's troops stand aside; the Company becomes the power behind Bengal's throne.

मीर जाफ़र की सेना के अलग खड़े रहने से क्लाइव की कंपनी सेना ने सिराजुद्दौला को हराया; कंपनी बंगाल की गद्दी के पीछे की असली ताक़त बनी।

## Account

23 June 1757, by a mango grove on the Bhagirathi. Clive had about 3,000 men against an army many times larger, but Mir Jafar, promised the throne, kept his troops out of the fight, and the day was decided by defection as much as by fire.

A small battle with a large consequence. Buxar in 1764 and the grant of the Diwani in 1765 followed, and with them the right to collect the revenue of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, which paid for the Company's armies from then on.

## Sources

- Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead (1987)

## Image

Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey. Francis Hayman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALord_Clive_meeting_with_Mir_Jafar_after_the_Battle_of_Plassey.jpg

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