Battle of Plassey 1757 - black hole tragedy - Capture of Chandernagar

Download PDf At https://discussanswer.com/battle-of-p... Background Bengal was the richest province in the 18th century. East India company was making huge profits here. EIC had headquarters in Calcutta, Fort William Dutch and French had factories only. Chinsura – Dutch Chandernagar -French 1756 Siraj ud Daulah became a new Nawab of Bengal. English and French companies were fighting Carnatic wars in south India. English began to fortify their factory( Fort William) at Calcutta without the permission of the Nawab. Siraj ud Daualh asked English to stop the enhancement of military preparedness. English did not respond in a positive way and continued fortification of the factory at Calcutta Misuse of Dastak secondly, Misuse of Dastak by the employees of the company This Dastak was based on a Firman issued by Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyyar in 1717. Dastak allowed the east India company to trade without paying taxes. Employees of EIA started using dastak for their personal trade and started giving it local traders This led to the fall of Revenue of the Nawab. Siraj attacks and Capture Calcutta 16 June 1756, Siraj attack Calcutta 20 June 1756 Siraj captures Calcutta Blackhole Tragedy after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped It was a room 18 feet (5.5 meters) long and 14 feet (4 meters) wide, and it had two small windows. that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 123 of 146 prisoners of war imprisoned there died. Historians often debate about the authenticity of the Blackhole incident. Robert Clive recapture Calcutta – Alinagar treaty Robert Clive and Watson recapture Calcutta in January 1757 The attack scared the Nawab into concluding the Treaty of Alinagar ( Old name for Calcutta )with the Company on 5 February agreeing to restore the Company’s factories, allow the fortification of Calcutta and restoring former privileges. The Nawab withdrew his army back to his capital, Murshidabad. British Captures Chandernagar Clive planned to capture the French town of Chandernagar, 20 miles (32 km) north of Calcutta. The French expected assistance from the Nawab’s forces from Hooghly, but the governor of Hooghly, Nandkumar had been bribed to remain inactive and prevent the Nawab’s reinforcement of Chandernagar. At 9:00 on 24 March, a flag of truce was shown by the French and by 15:00, the capitulation concluded. After plundering Chandernagar, Clive decided to ignore his orders to return to Madras and remain in Bengal. He moved his army to the north of the town of Hooghly. Battle of Plassey The Battle of Plassey was a major battle that took place on 23 June 1757. The battle took place at Palashi, Bengal on the river banks of the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River, a distributary of the Ganges. The fighting took place about 150 kilometers (93 mi) north of Calcutta. This was near Murshidabad which was the capital of Bengal at the time. Britishers formed a conspiracy with Siraj-ud-Daulah’s demoted army leader Mir Jafar as well as others such as Yar Lutuf Khan and Rai Durlabh. Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh and Yar Lutuf Khan brought their soldiers near Plassey but did not actually join the battle. Siraj-ud-Daulah’s army was beaten by about 3,000 soldiers of Col. Robert Clive, and Siraj-ud-daulah fled from the battlefield. Siraj-ud-Daulah was executed on 2 July 1757 by Mohammad Ali Beg under orders from Mir Meerun, son of Mir Jafar As a reward for his treachery, Mir Jafar was made the Nawab of Bengal. The British now had influence over the Nawab. They also got a lot of revenue from trade. The British used this revenue to increase their military power. They pushed the other European colonial powers such as the Dutch and the French out of South Asia. This was a sign of the expansion of the British Empire in Asia.