After Plassey, the victorious Clive was able to dictate terms
to the defeated Nawab, Siraj ud-Daulah; a painting by Francis
Hayman, c.1762
Source:
ebay, Mar. 2015
Clive examining the enemy lines
from the roof of the Navab's hunting lodge; the Navab's arrival
before Clive's position; the Navab's artillery on a special
movable platform: three commemorative views of the Battle of
Plassey from the Illustrated London News, 1893
Source: ebay, Dec. 2008
*Mir
Jafar and his son Miran delivering the Treaty of 1757 to
William Watts. Platinotype by Henry Dixon and Son, London,
c.1890* (BL)
*The battleground of Udhua Nullah [where Mir
Qasim (r.1760-63) was defeated in 1763], Lord Hastings' tents
in the foreground and the Rajmahal foothills beyond; a
watercolor by Seeta Ram, 1817-21* (BL)
*The bridge at Udhua Nullah, with an encampment
beyond and the foothills of the Rajmahal Hills in the distance*
(BL)
*Shah
'Alam conveying the grant of the Diwani to Lord Clive, August
1765; an oil painting by Benjamin West, c.1818* (BL); *another scan, much larger* (from
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders#img-1)
Excerpts from the peace treaty with
Shuja ud-Daulah, and the whole of Shah 'Alam's farman, as
translated and reported by "The Universal Magazine," London, Dec.
1766
Source: ebay, July 2008
*Lord
Clive receiving from the Nawab of Bengal a grant of money for
disabled officers and soldiers; an oil painting by Edward
Penny, 1772-73* (BL)
"Robert, First Lord Clive," a steel engraving of Clive from
around 1860
Source: ebay, July 2002
The film versio (1935) starred Ronald Colman and Loretta Young
Source: ebay, June 2008
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