The Indian Army still thinks it scored a great victory in Palashi and is proud to display its veneration of that memory. Today is the 253 anniversary of that victory by treachery, but this still stands as a testimonial to that infamous event.
The battle took place at Palashi (Anglicised version: Plassey) on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Calcutta and south of Murshidabad, then capital of Bengal (now in Nadia district in West Bengal).
The belligerents were the Nawab Siraj-ud-Dau-lah, the last independent Nawab of Bengal, and the British East India Company. Siraj-ud-Dau-lah had become the Nawab of Bengal the year before, and he ordered the English to stop the extension of their fortification.
Robert Clive bribed Mir Jafar, the commander in chief of the Nawab's army, and also promised him to make him Nawab of Bengal. He defeated the Nawab at Plassey in 1757 and captured Calcutta.
