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The Forgotten Battle of Plassey's Prelude: What Happened at Palashi
Most know the Battle of Plassey in 1757 as the event that delivered Bengal to the British East India Company. But the real story began months earlier—in the sweltering heat of June 1756, when Siraj ud-Daulah's forces overran Fort William in Calcutta. This episode dives into the neglected prelude to Plassey: the siege of Calcutta, the Black Hole incident (and its disputed death toll), and the secret negotiations that followed. We trace how Siraj's young Nawab inherited a fractured court, why he attacked the British, and how men like Robert Clive and Mir Jafar used betrayal to topple…
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