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On June 23, 1757, Robert Clive 'won' a battle that was decided before it began. A general was bribed, a nawab was betrayed, and India's richest province fell to a trading company. This wasn't a conquest — it was a purchase.
On March 3, 1707, the most powerful man on Earth died in a tent in the Deccan — broken, bankrupt, and haunted by his own failures. His 49-year reign left India's mightiest empire in ruins. What followed was chaos.
Just 13 years after Plassey, one-third of Bengal's population starved to death while the East India Company raised taxes during the famine. This is the story of history's first corporate-caused genocide.
On June 6, 1674, a warrior who started with nothing crowned himself Chhatrapati at Raigad Fort. He built a navy, invented guerrilla warfare, and forged the first major Hindu kingdom in centuries — right under the Mughal Empire's nose.