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Clive’s Conquest of East India House and the Company’s Conquest of Bengal

2019
This chapter discusses how Robert Clive managed not only to undo Laurence Sulivan's supremacy at East India House but also to be returned to Bengal with extraordinary civilian and military powers. This dramatic reversal of fortune was not the result of Clive's fortitude but rather of the convergence of four major sociopolitical developments in late ...
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Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal

Modern Asian Studies, 1994
The Indian state of West Bengal is governed and politically dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) for short) which has been in Government there since 1977 as the largest constituent party to the ruling Left Front. The CPI(M)'s position in West Bengal is unique both in India and in the world in the sense that it is the only ...
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From commerce to conquest: The dynamics of British mercantile imperialismin eighteenth-century Bengal, and the foundation of the British Indian Empire

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1990
“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind … Our acquisition of India was made blindly.
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On a New King of Bengal (Aláuddin Firúz Sháh), and Notes on the Husaini Kings of Bengal and Their Conquest of Chátgáon (Chittagong)

1872
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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From commerce to conquest : the dynamics of early British imperial expansion into Bengal

1983
By the 1740s the English East India Company's trade and its servants' private trade in India were suffering as a result of both the increasing turmoil in the sub-continent, as the Mughal Empire declined, and the growing competition of the French. In response to this situation the Court of Directors and the British government despatched an increasing ...
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Britain's Army in India: From Its Origins to the Conquest of Bengal.

Military Affairs, 1978
Richard A. Cosgrove, James P. Lawford
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