Plassey

June twenty-third; I knew that date - and suddenly I was back in the big panelled room at Balmoral, and Pam was saying "... the Raj will come to an end a hundred years after the battle of Plassey ... next June twenty-third."

Fiancée 2010

"Did you know, there's an Indian superstition that the British Raj will come to an end exactly a hundred years after the Battle of Plassey?"

Fiancée 2010

Well, the hundredth anniversary of Plassey falls next June the twenty-third.

Fiancée 2010

There were ugly rumours and portents: the 34th N.I. - the executed Sepoy Pandy's regiment - had been disbanded at Barrackpore, a mysterious fakir on an elephant had appeared in Meerut bazaar predicting that the wrath of Kali was about to fall on the British, chapattis were said to be passing in some barrack-rooms, the Plassey legend was circulated again.

Fiancée 2010

This was deemed necessary since the Company was in charge of a large part of India including Bengal after the battles of Plassey and Buxar.

Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

The puja was organised because Clive wished to pay thanks for his victory in the Battle of Plassey.

Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

Kishore Babu has been told that in the battle of Plassey which brought the British into the country as rulers, Marawai financiers-bankers called jagatseths from the Oswal family were the key movers and shakers.

Kali katha via Byepass : The Marwaris of Kolkata Shantanud 2008

Besides the lives of myriads of British men, conquering on a hundred fields, from Plassey to Meanee, and bathing them cruore nostro: think of the women, and the tribute which they perforce must pay to those victorious achievements.

The Newcomes 2006

Clive formed a conspiracy with Hindu bankers and the nawab's general, Mir Jafar, which enabled his forces to rout those remaining loyal to the nawab at Plassey (June 23).

Early 1700s 2001

The one hundredth anniversary of the battle of Plassey was celebrated in England June 23, 1857, to obtain funds for a monument to Lord Clive, who secured India to England.

The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989