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Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The battle consolidated the Company's presence in Bengal, which later expanded to cover much of India over the next hundred years.
The battle took place at Palashi (Anglicised version: "Plassey") on the banks of the Hooghly River, about north of Calcutta and south of Murshidabad, then capital of Bengal (
subcontinent.
After the Battle of Plassey, Battle of Buxar and the long Anglo-Mysore Wars, the East India Company ended up seizing control over the entire India. Within the end of the 18th century, European powers, mainly the British Empire, commenced to extend political influence over the Muslim world, as well as extending towards the Indian subcontinent, and by the end of the 19th century, much of the Muslim world as well as the Indian subcontinent, came under European colonial domination, most notably the British Raj