Fiction
of the truth.....
I
was a small entrepreneur of Calcutta. I used to sell vegetables in the
crowded lanes of the
city.
People from different states used to come here. The city was very prosperous. But that
horrific
day I am going to tell you..... Now listen to my story everyone....if
you have heart.
It
was like normal day, I woke up at five o clock morning, it was part
of my daily routine all
things
were as usual, but I was unaware of the fact that it was the day when
Kalikata will
come
under black clouds... I took my
thela
or
in English we say cart on which I used to sell
vegetables.
As usual the market was full of public till seven o clock all other
shopkeepers
were
ready with their shops in which the stuffs will kept in the way that
they will look most
attractive
in the market... Oh! Sorry I forgotten to tell you two most important
things, first
the
date, which was 1717.. and our ruler's name Murshid Quli Khan. Now I
will continue
with
my story....So that day's afternoon we got a messenger from Mughal
sultanate, he
announced-
“ Sultan Farruksiyar has given the East India Company to duty free
trade in
India”.
Now
I will give a little introduction to East India Company. It was
mercantile company
which
came to India for buying traditional Indian stuff which are native to
India and sell it
very
high prices in their country so called 'England.' Now to continue
with the story....
Farruksiyar
was a weak ruler he never looked at his sultanate from his accession
till today. This weakness of the ruler proved milestone to the
Company.... the started to make a fort at the the bank of river
Hoogli. They put their private force and ammunitions without
prior
pemission of nawab there. Soon after that Quli Khan died, his son
Siraj-ud-Daulah ascended
the
throne of Nawab, he had a respet in province....he was dedicated to
his state..but his powers did
not
worked against company...He was angered with the advancing of British
in his province, he
asked
them publicly to put down thier fortification, but they didn't
agreed, I remember that day
when
the royal horses marched to Fort William, with royal guards and his
majesty, they entered the
fort
and captured it, they declared their authority on fort and put some
hundred men in a small room
for
whole night, at morning few of them survived, this success of nawab
didn't live much long...
soon
East India Company called one of their most able General Robert
Clive, he was a clever as
well
as intellignet man his personality showed how he could handle
situation, on a very day
Comapny's
force under guidence of Robert Clive captured fort once a gain from
authority of
Nawab,
nawab was badly defeated in that fight. Nawab was taken to his palace
and was forced to
sign
a treaty called treaty of Alinagar. But Britishers were not satisfied
with this defeat of Nawab
hey
want to throw out nawab form his throne completely. They tried tooth
to nail for this
purpose..everyday
they would go to royal palace or house of nawab's corrupt
nobles....they try to win
over
them... but the heveans fell when they won over mind of one of
nawab's most important noble,
his
general of his army 'Mir Jafar'.... we thought he was intelligent man
but he was fooled very
easily...
he was judgmental in his decision.
British
East India company declared war on Nawab which was to be held at
Plashi, the Britishers named the battle as the battle of Plassey,
plassey was anglicised version
of
name Plashi. When Nawab gathered hishe also asked Mir Jafar to join
war...but he disagreed
saying that he was not well and could not lead the army....he said to nawab
you are enough to lead
your
force but nawab was unknown to this fact that Mir Jafar had given all
the information of force
of
nawab to Robert Clive, I was made a soldier of army of nawab as it
was compulsory for every
men
of Bengal to join the force when asked by the nawab.
The
battle started, Company's force was well equipped with arms...and
they
all knew about our formation....therefore we were soon defeated and
nawab was killed by
Robert
Clive.......he made Mir Jafar Nawab and this was the end of
prosperity of Bengal, prosperity
of
India.....this was the fiction of my truth............