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The Scramble for Asia: Clive and the Battle of Plassey
While the Berlin Conference carved up Africa with straight lines on paper, the British East India Company was quietly dismantling the Mughal Empire in India through military coup and economic extraction. This episode focuses on the pivotal Battle of Plassey in 1757, where Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah not just through superior firepower, but through a pre-arranged betrayal by Mir Jafar. We explore how the Bengal Nizamat system allowed Company officials to amass personal fortunes while draining the region's wealth, a process later analyzed by Dadabhai Naoroji as the Drain Theory…
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