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Battle of #Plassey was the most important war in history of modern India. It was a decisive victory of British East India Company over Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under leadership of Robert Clive. It permanently changed political equation in India. 
The victory was made possible by treachery of Mir Jafar, who was Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah's commander in chief. The battle helped the British East India Company take control of Bengal. Over the next 100 years, they seized control of most of Indian subcontinent, Burma, Afghanistan.
There is no iota of doubt that it was the battle of Plassey that exposed the subcontinent’s internal conflicts, destroying the native dynasties then in power and also the economy of imperial Bengal besides the Mughal Empire brick by brick.
