I sometimes wonder how Lord Robert Clive might have spent the night of June 22, 1757. Was it a sleepless night, since we know he had considered the prospects of the events that were going ...

History Yesterdate: This day from Kolkata’s past, June 23, 1757 Battle of Plassey, one of the most decisive events in history of Bengal, and India, was fought on this day ...

On June 24, 1757, with Bengal nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah defeated by Robert Clive of the British East India Company at the Battle of Plassey the previous day, Mir Jafar, Siraj’s follower who had betrayed ...

The movie portrayal of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula as the last independent ruler of Bengal, Bihar and Urissa is pretty much etched in the minds of Bengalis. In East Pakistan, the late1960s social and ...

I sometimes wonder how Lord Robert Clive might have spent the night of June 22, 1757. Was it a sleepless night, since we know he had considered the prospects of the events that were going ...