<P> Lord Clive testified and defended himself thus before the House of Commons of Parliament on 10 May 1773, during the Parliamentary inquiry into his conduct in India: </P> <P> "Omichund, his confidential servant, as he thought, told his master of an agreement made between the English and Monsieur Duprée (may be a mistranscription of Dupleix) to attack him, and received for that advice a sum of not less than four lacks of rupees . Finding this to be the man in whom the nawab entirely trusted, it soon became our object to consider him as a most material engine in the intended revolution . We therefore made such an agreement as was necessary for the purpose, and entered into a treaty with him to satisfy his demands . When all things were prepared, and the evening of the event was appointed, Omichund informed Mr. Watts, who was at the court of the nawab, that he insisted upon thirty lacks of rupees, and five per cent . upon all the treasure that should be found; that, unless that was immediately complied with, he would disclose the whole to the nawab; and that Mr. Watts, and the two other English gentlemen then at the court, should be cut off before the morning . Mr. Watts, immediately on this information, dispatched an express to me at the council . I did not hesitate to find out a stratagem to save the lives of these people, and secure success to the intended event . For this purpose we signed another treaty . The one was called the Red, the other the White treaty . This treaty was signed by every one, except admiral Watson; and I should have considered myself sufficiently authorised to put his name to it, by the conversation I had with him . As to the person who signed admiral Watson's name to the treaty, whether he did it in his presence or not, I cannot say; but this I know, that he thought he had sufficient authority for so doing . This treaty was immediately sent to Omichund, who did not suspect the stratagem . The event took place, and success attended it; and the House, I am fully persuaded, will agree with me, that, when the very existence of the Company was at stake, and the lives of these people so precariously situated, and so certain of being destroyed, it was a matter of true policy and of justice to deceive so great a villain ." </P> <P> The Battle of Plassey (or Palashi) is widely considered the turning point in the history of the subcontinent, and opened the way to eventual British domination . After Siraj - ud - Daulah's conquest of Calcutta, the British sent fresh troops from Madras to recapture the fort and avenge the attack . A retreating Siraj - ud - Daulah met the British at Plassey . He had to make camp 27 miles away from Murshidabad . On 23 June 1757 Siraj - ud - Daulah called on Mir Jafar because he was saddened by the sudden fall of Mir Mardan who was a very dear companion of Siraj in battles . The Nawab asked for help from Mir Jafar . Mir Jafar advised Siraj to retreat for that day . The Nawab made the blunder in giving the order to stop the fight . Following his command, the soldiers of the Nawab were returning to their camps . At that time, Robert Clive attacked the soldiers with his army . At such a sudden attack, the army of Siraj became indisciplined and could think of no way to fight . So all fled away in such a situation . Betrayed by a conspiracy plotted by Jagat Seth, Mir Jafar, Krishna Chandra, Omichund etc., he lost the battle and had to escape . He went first to Murshidabad and then to Patna by boat, but was eventually arrested by Mir Jafar's soldiers . </P> <P> Siraj - ud - Daulah was executed on 2 July 1757 by Mohammad Ali Beg under orders from Mir Meerun, son of Mir Jafar in Namak Haram Deorhi as part of the agreement between Mir Jafar and the British East India Company . </P>

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