Palashi is a small hamlet type town located some 25 kilometres from Murshidabad in West BengalIndia. It is a part of the administrative district of South Dinajpur. It has its own local government. Murshidabad is a town located in the northern part of present day state of West Bengal, India. ... West Bengal (পশà§à¦šà¦¿à¦® বঙà§à¦—, PosÌcim Bôngo) is a state in the eastern region of India. ...
It literally translates as the "grove of red flowers". It became part of history when on 23 June 1757, the Battle of Palashi (spelt by British historians as Plassey was fought between the forces of Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah the last independent ruler of Bengal and the troops of the British East India Company led by Robert Clive. The Battle of Plassey was a battle that took place on June 23, 1757, near Plassey (Palashee (পলাশী) in Bengali), a small village on the Bhagirathi River (a distributary of Ganges River) located just north of Kolkata and south of Murshidabad in India. ... Siraj-ud-daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. ... The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India. ... Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey (September 29, 1725 - November 22, 1774) was the statesman and general who established the empire of British India. ...
In 1998, the Khaitan group of industries, which operate a firm that makes agricultural equipment, had tried to change the name to "Khaitan Nagar". Voluble protestations of the Calcutta press led the industrialists to leave the name untouched. This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...
Always with an eye to the share price and their own executive perks, its executives in India combined economic muscle with a small, but effective private army to establish a corporate state across large parts of the sub-continent.
The battle of Plassey (the anglicised version of Palashi) in June 1757 was the turning point, when the company’s forces defeated the last independent Nawab of Bengal, helped largely by strategic bribery of his military commander Mir Jafar, whom it then placed as its puppet on the throne.
This is often regarded as the contest that founded the British Empire in India, but is perhaps better viewed as the Company’s most successful business deal, generating a windfall profit of £2.5 million for the Company and £234,000 for Robert Clive, the chief architect of the acquisition.
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