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‘The Battle of Plassey (1757) was a skirmish while the Battle of Buxar (1764) was a real war’. Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2022
  • British Expansion in India

Judged purely by military scale and character, Plassey and Buxar belong to entirely different categories of engagement — one decided before the fighting began, the other genuinely contested and won by force of arms.

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