Plassey : village in Nadia district of Bengal. It was the scene of the decisive victory of Robert Clive (q.v.) over Nawab Sirāj-ud-Daulah on 23 June 1757…a mere skirmish lasting only a few hours, it marked the beginning of British domination of India. S.L. Karandikar: “More than two thousand years before Aurangzeb’s death (1707), a small event of far-reaching importance had happened in South India. It was the arrival at Calicut in May 1498 of a few Portuguese ships under Vasco de Gama. The spread of the power of Portugal along the western coast of India, the subsequent arrival of the Dutch, the French & the English, the transfer of Bombay by the Portuguese to the English, &, Anglo-French rivalry in India as part of their rivalry for world supremacy [led to] the assertion of English superiority over the French by the middle of the 18th century, & the penetration of the English bacilli into Bengal, the right lung of India, in 1757, which is the fateful battle of Plassey. [In] Sardar Pannikar’s…view Plassey was not a battle but a transaction. The grant in 1764 by the Emperor of Delhi to the East India Co. of the Diwani of the very extensive & rich territories of Bengal, Bihar & Orissa pushed the English to the fore as a force to be reckoned with in the race of all-India supremacy.” [Lōk. B.G. Tilak…, pp.5-6]
... regiment on the stations of the Grand Trunk Road, which led from Calcutta to Peshawar. People whispered of the old prophecy which stated that 100 years after the battle of Plassey, the rule of John Company would end. The battle of Plassey had been fought in 1757 and in the hundredth year after the battle it seemed everyone was awaiting a spark. When it came, it was in the shape of a new cartridge. The ... ensure the stability that an uninterrupted flow of trade required, they had raised forces of their own and become an active power in the politics of 18th-century India. Clive, with his victory at Plassey, had ended French pretensions to an Indian empire and firmly established the British as one of the arbiters of India's fate. A generation later, Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) and his... revenge. It was called 'the Devil's Wind'. And finally, in one of those ironical twists that the forces of history seem to revel in, the prophecy that a hundred years after the Battle of Plassey the rule of John Company will end actually came true. When the British desire for punishment and revenge was spent, they started to think about how future mutinies could be prevented. They realised ...
... with the Company's rivals - the Portuguese, the Dutch and, more formidably, the French. It was by the Battle of Wandiwash that the French threat was eliminated and by the Battle of Plassey, a few years earlier that it got a foothold over Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The Battle of Wandiwash was a continuation of the Anglo-French armed struggle and rivalry in Europe and other parts of the... few years earlier, the East India Company had succeeded in establishing itself and getting power in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa and the east coast. The decisive step in this direction was the Battle of Plassey, more correctly Palasi (from the Palas trees that abound in the area). Fought between the British forces and those of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah on 23 June 1757, the battle lasted only one day when... standing neutral.' These three were secretly in league with the East India Company. This battle gave the East India Company control over Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Immediately after the Battle of Plassey, Moghul emperor Shah Alam granted Dewani of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa to the British East India Company. As a result, it secured permission to collect land revenue from these provinces in return for ...
... anvil and the blows are showering upon us not to destroy but to re-create. Without suffering there can be no growth...” — From Sri Aurobindo's Speeches, pp. 99-100 Since the Battle of Plassey in 1757, which put its seal upon the fate of India and gave her over to the possession of the British for about two hundred years, nothing had happened ¹ It was this unfailing foresight and... devised it, as the evidence shows most conclusively, to pay off scores.... " — Ramsay Macdonald. Macdonald again characterised the Partition as "the hugest blunder committed since the battle of Plassey." 4. Italics are ours. Page 159 when he was on a tour of East Bengal, "that his object in partitioning was not only to relieve the Bengali administration, but to create a ...
... lasted or the date when the Battle of Plassey was fought. What we teach, rather, is how in ancient times the Aryans formed the nation, how today's Marathas became Marathas, how the Bengalis became Bengalis, how the Punjabis became Punjabis. Once the students have understood these things clearly, it does not matter if they fail to know the year of the Battle of Plassey. In short, we believe that true history ...
... Guru of the world. It is because of the decisive commencement of this glorious future in 1957 that 1957 is as important in India's history as in their own ways 1757, the year of the Battle of Plassey which brought India into British hands, and 1857, the date of the so-called Indian Mutiny against British domination. Now you Page 118 have the correct sequence of the possibilities ...
... stories about Tibbati Baba's age and powers. Sri Aurobindo : How old is he ? Disciple : One can't say; but Bibhuti Bhushan asked him and he said he was young at the time when the battle of Plassey was fought. It is said that he changed his Bengali body and took up that of a Tibetan. Sri Aurobindo : But that is not physical immortality. Disciple : He looks very old, his skin is ...
... Unifying he is to the limit of the term." IV From the birth of Rammohan to the birth of Sri Aurobindo was a whole century's span. When Rammohan was born, it was fifteen years after Plassey and Page 17 eleven years after the third Battle of Panipat, both decisive events that paved the way for Britain's overlordship of India; also, it was in 1772 that Warren Hastings was ...
... rule of one nation over another is against natural law and therefore a falsehood, and falsehoods can only endure so long as the Truth refuses to recognise itself. The princes of Bengal at the time of Plassey did not realise that we could save ourselves, they thought that something outside would save us. We were not enslaved by Clive, for not even a thousand Clives could have had strength enough to enslave ...
... Dada enquired, how titles like Chattopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay, Bandopadhyay, Gangopadhyay were shortened to Chatterji, Mukherji, Bannerji, Ganguli? Let me tell you" After winning the battle of Plassey, when Clive became the ruler and peace returned to the country, a group of Bengalis went to Clive with a petition. Clive asked: 'What are your names? And what is it you want?' 'My name's ...
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