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Under the command of Robert Clive, the East India Company defeated the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah and his French allies. This allowed the Company to assume control of the entire Bengal region, and greatly increase their revenue.

The Nawab’s artillery at Plassey, illustration from ‘Hutchinson’s Story of the British Nation’ by Richard Caton II Woodville. Lithograph, 1923.

The Battle of Plassey marked the beginning of the British East India Company’s transformation from a trading company to a colonial power.

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