Person1733 – 1757
Siraj ud-Daulah
Also called: Siraj-ud-Daulah, Sirajuddaula
Last independent Nawab of Bengal (r. 1756–1757), defeated at the Battle of Plassey and then killed
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Robert Clive of the British East India Company defeated Siraj ud-Daulah, the French-backed Nawab of Bengal, at Plassey — the starting point of British rule over Bengal and then India.
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- Robert Clive1725 – 1774
Soldier and governor of Bengal for the British East India Company, whose victory at Plassey opened British rule in India
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence