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:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/Clive.html
(downloaded May 2000)
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)
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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