introduction
As one of the four ancient civilizations, India has a brilliant and long history, leaving a strong mark in human history, in india's history, there was a very dim period, not only social development once remained almost "static", but also constantly suffered from the harm caused by war, in the period of internal and external troubles, India became a British colony.
The process of the British government in India did not happen overnight, but went through a long and violent process that lasted for two hundred and forty-nine years, and for two and a half centuries the British struggle with India was always there, and the Battle of Placi became an important turning point, from which India entered the colonial period from a primitive feudal society.
France lost the Seven Years' War and withdrew from the colonial scene, and britain's plundering of India intensified
With the collapse and disintegration of India's last feudal dynasty --- the Mughal Empire, Western colonists flocked to India's resources, Indian society was once in turmoil, and the Indian people were in dire straits for a long time.
Marx once said: "The infinite power of the Great Mughals was overthrown by his governors, the power of the governors was overthrown by the Marathas, the power of the Marathas was overthrown by the Afghans, and in the midst of this scuffle, the Britons broke in and conquered all the people." ”
In the process of conquering India, Britain was not the only aggressor, and France had also coveted India's resources for a long time and was Britain's most powerful competitor. Britain and France used their military power to invade and plunder India, and hired a large number of Indian soldiers, so that Indian society once had a situation of "Indians beating Indians".
The French governor-general in India, Duplex, had established an Indian army in the mid-eighteenth century, the first European colonists to adopt this method of aggression, and gradually became a "model" for other invaders, and the British colonists, seeing that France had achieved success in this way, began to imitate and build up the Indian army.
In the Seven Years' War, Britain and France fought fiercely, and the British and French colonists in India joined in this vicious fight, and this long-lasting war finally ended with the defeat of France. The outcome of this war is somewhat predictable.
At that time, Britain was already in the period of completion of the capitalist revolution, and France was still a feudal autocratic country, Britain's military strength was stronger than France's, and Britain's victory over the powerful rival France meant that France withdrew from the colonial stage, and it also meant that Britain, without competitors, could invade India without scruples.
"The Seven Years' War transformed the East India Company from a commercial power into a military and territorial power, and it was during this period that the foundations of the British Empire in the East were laid." --- Marx
As early as the end of the seventeenth century, the East India Company established the first trading posts in Bengal, India, and a century later, the East India Company had established more than one hundred and fifty trading posts in Bengal, all for profit, predatory commercial institutions, and no equality in the dealings between India and Britain.
Bangladesh has always been a rich land, Britain has coveted the resources of this land for a long time, greed is endless, the British colonists even if they have carried out cruel commercial plunder, still not satisfied, trying to occupy this land, but the British colonial invasion caused the Bengal princes to stubbornly resist, and occupied many areas of Britain, war is about to break out.
The British colonists coveted the fertile Bengal, but they were met with stubborn resistance from the Indian princes, and the Battle of Placi was on the verge of breaking out
Siraj, a young prince at the age of nineteen, showed outstanding military leadership at the beginning of his succession, and only two months later, he occupied the British agent shop in Cochinbassa, and then continued to march, occupying Calcutta, and arresting and imprisoning all the British colonists here, but the British colonists were not willing to accept such a defeat.
Shortly thereafter, Klevo led an army to attack Bengal, reoccupied Calcutta, and after the start of the Seven Years' War between England and France, Siraj defected to France and fought against the British.
However, Fearing that the Afghans would take advantage of the situation and not dare to engage in a protracted war with the British, Klevo saw Siraj's concerns and immediately stepped up military operations, forcing Siraj to recognize the privileges of the British.
At the same time, Klevoy bribed the most powerful local nobles to compete for power with Siraj, and was always plotting the next step of the war of aggression, in which case the Battle of Plasi broke out.
Located in the northern region of Kolkata, Klevo led an army of three thousand men into Siraj, of which more than two thousand were Indian soldiers, and the Siraj side had a large force of 50,000 men, which was supposed to be a war without suspense, but because Klevo had bought the Indian nobility in advance, the fifty thousand troops were only attacked by Mir Danma, who was loyal to Siraj, with twelve thousand men.
Even so, Klevo's three thousand soldiers were powerless to resist, and in the face of a large number of people and a menacing Indian army, Klevo's heart was also very panicked, but he did not mess up, but fought back and forth.
The war was not yet won or lost by noon, and the bribed aristocratic forces had not moved, and the helpless Klevo had to decide to stay until the evening, and a heavy rain became the turning point of the war.
The British army was equipped with rainproof tarpaulin, and the Indian army thought that the British ammunition was wet with heavy rain, so they led the army to attack, resulting in heavy casualties, and the helpless Siraji had to ask the nobles for help, but only in vain.
The Battle of Plasi ended with the defeat of Siraj, and shortly thereafter, the bribed nobleman Mir Jafa became the new ruler of Bengal, and Klevo was appointed Governor of Calcutta for his outstanding military exploits.
Since then, the British colonists have become more unscrupulous in their aggression and rule over India, the East India Company has directly controlled the power, and Klevoux, as the governor, has become the de facto ruler of the Bengal Company.
The Battle of Placi paved the way for the British to continue to conquer Bengal until they conquered all of India, becoming an important turning point in India's colonization
The Battle of Placi had a major impact on the history of India, which was also a turning point in india's transformation from the era of feudal society, and gradually became a colony under the rule of British colonists, and the Indian people were constantly fighting against British colonists.
Nehru once said: "In Bengal, Klevoy effortlessly won the Battle of Prasi by means of rebellion and forgery, a day that is sometimes recognized as a sign of the establishment of the Anglo-Indian Empire, and the military impact of the Battle of Plasi was not important, the political impact was significant." ”
After the Battle of Plasi, the East India Company controlled almost two hundred square miles of land in southern Calcutta and became the de facto ruler of Bengal. The scale of the campaign was small, but it had more serious consequences than the world's largest, and the Battle of Plassy paved the way for the British to continue to conquer Bengal and even conquer all of India.
After the Battle of Placi, the British colonists gradually expanded into the interior of India based on the occupied Bangladesh, further plundering Indian territory, and then Bihar, Orissa and the east coast were occupied one after another, making India a complete British colony.
On the other hand, the Indian people did not sit still in the face of the aggression of the British colonialists, but constantly fought against them, which can be seen from the long time of the British conquest of India, and it is precisely because of the stubborn resistance of the Indian people that this colonial struggle lasted for two and a half centuries.
The humiliation of the Battle of Placi has always been remembered in the hearts of the Indian people, and a hundred years later, a national anti-British uprising broke out, dealing a heavy blow to the British colonists.
It is worth mentioning that after the Battle of Prassi, although India became a British colony, this was not a historical necessity of India's development, but was imposed on India by the British, and the aggressive aggression of the British colonists undermined the trend of India's own development, leaving the entire Indian people in the painful disaster of enslavement. During the British colonial rule in India, it forcibly destroyed the structure of the entire Indian society, which was a man-made historical disaster for the Indian people, not an inevitable historical development.
bibliography:
General History of India
The Laws of Civilization and Their Decline
The Collected Works of Marx and Engels