⚔ Battle · ★ Major · 📅 23 June 1757
Battle of Plassey
1757 – present · 📍 Palashi
Clive defeats Siraj ud-Daulah; Company rule begins in Bengal.
What it led to: Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and Mir Jafar became a Company-backed nawab.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Durrani Empire · Durrani Empire
- 1749 ⚔ Battle of Ambur · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
- 1751 ⚔ Siege of Arcot · Carnatic (Nawabs of Arcot)
- 1760 ⚔ Battle of Wandiwash · British East India Company
- 1761 ⚔ Third Battle of Panipat · Maratha Empire
- 1764 ⚔ Battle of Buxar · British East India Company
- 1765 Diwani of Bengal granted · British East India Company
- 1767 ⚔ First Anglo-Mysore War · Kingdom of Mysore
Alive at the time
Velu Nachiyar
1730 – 1796
Queen of Sivaganga who fought the East India Company
Nana Fadnavis1742 – 1800
Peshwa minister called the 'Maratha Machiavelli'
Sir William Jones1746 – 1794
Founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Pazhassi Raja1753 – 1805
Kerala ruler who fought the Company in the Cotiote War
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🗂 Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- East India Company RuleBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 12
- Fort St George, Madras 1639 – 1858Part of it
- Bombay (English East India Company) 1668 – 1858Part of it
- Sultanate of the Maldives 1153 – 1968Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Malla Dynasty of Nepal 1201 – 1769Existed at the same time (169 years)
- Ahom Kingdom 1228 – 1826Existed at the same time (226 years)
- Mewar (Sisodia) 1326 – 1949Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Vijayanagara Empire 1336 – 1646Existed at the same time (46 years)
- Kingdom of Mysore 1399 – 1950Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Kingdom of Kandy 1469 – 1815Existed at the same time (215 years)
- Portuguese Estado da Índia 1505 – 1961Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Mughal Empire 1526 – 1857Existed at the same time (257 years)
- Maratha Empire 1674 – 1818Existed at the same time (144 years)
👑 Rulers 6
- Robert Clive 1758 – 1760Ruled it
- Robert Clive 1765 – 1767Ruled it
- Warren Hastings 1773 – 1785Ruled it
- Lord Cornwallis 1786 – 1793Ruled it
- Lord Wellesley 1798 – 1805Ruled it
- Lord Hastings 1813 – 1823Ruled it
👤 People 5
- Sir William Jones 1746 – 1794Lived under it
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1772 – 1833Lived under it
- James Prinsep 1799 – 1840Lived under it
- Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800 – 1859Lived under it
- Mangal Pandey 1827 – 1857Lived under it
⚔ Events 6
- East India Company chartered 1600Happened in it
- Job Charnock founds Calcutta 1690Happened in it
- Battle of Plassey 1757Happened in it
- Battle of Buxar 1764Happened in it
- Diwani of Bengal granted 1765Happened in it
- Great Bengal Famine 1770Happened in it
📍 Places & sites 1
- Fort William, Calcutta 1696A place of this polity
🔧 Technology 2
- Jantar Mantar observatory early 18th centuryMade or discovered in this time
- The first passenger train 16 April 1853Made or discovered in this time
📄 Research 3
- Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India D. A. Washbrook · 1981Research on this topic
- Knowing the Country: Empire and Information in India C. A. Bayly · 1993Research on this topic
- The Company Army and Rural Society: The Invalid Thanah 1780–1830 Seema Alavi · 1993Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- History of Modern India Bipan ChandraRecommended reading
- A Brief History of Modern India Rajiv AhirRecommended reading