In 1600, Queen Elizabeth granted permission to English East India Company for sole trade. They came to India in 1608 as trader and merchant. In 1615, EIC set up their first factory 🏭 at banks of River Hooghly, Kalikata{Kolkata}. In 1696, They started fortification of their factory. They invited other trader and merchant to settle near factory.They bribed Mughal official to give them 3 villages including Kalikata {Kolkata}. Now, there were other European trading company too like Portuguese, Dutch and French. Britisher started using Naval army to destroy these European company's ship. In 1698, They again bribed Mughal official in order to appeal of Farman by Emperor Aurangzeb for duty free trade. Mughal gave them Farman for duty free trade by company's side but EIC was also doing duty free trade from private side causing huge loss of revenue to Bengal. 1756, Bengal Nawab Alivardi Khan died. His son Sirajuddaulah became Nawab. EIC wanted Nawab Sirajuddaulah to be puppet ruler. They started interfering in Bengal's Court matter. They made plan to overthrow Sirajuddaulah but he got to know somehow and asked EIC to not to interfer in Bengal's affair, stop fortification and accused EIC of deceit and asked EIC to pay amount of loss. EIC refused each and every order by Nawab. Then Nawab marched with 30,000 soldiers to Kalikata EIC fort and captured it. After the fall of Kalikata, EIC sent an army under Robert Clive.
To Be continued.....
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