BATTLE OF PLASSEY (1757)

✅REASONS 

🔸 Nawab seized fort Williams. Killed foreigners inside (black hole tragedy) 

🔸 Nawab was opposed by dominant group in his court of Rai Durlabh, Jagat singh, Omichand.

✅BATTLE COURSE: Alliance: Mir Jafar (husband of Alivardi khan’s sister) + Robert Clive with Rai Durlabh Omichand and Jagat Singh v/s Siraj-ud-daulah

✅RESULTS: Won by the trio. Mir Jafar became the new Nawab

✅OTHER: 

🔸1760: Mir Jafar rebelled.  

🔸Treaty of 1760 

🔸Replaced by Mir Kasim.  

🔸 Mir Kasim shifted capital from Murshidabad to Munger (Bihar) for safe distance from company.

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