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Queen Elizabeth gave the charter to her men for soul free right to trade from the east
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The first English factory was set up on the banks of the river Hugli.
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It began building a Fort around the settlement. Two years later it bribed mughal officials into giving the company into giving the company zamindari rights rights over three villages one of which was Kolkata
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Why alivardi khan died in 1756, Sirajuddaulah became the nawab of Bengal. The company was worried about the power and keen on a puppet ruler who would willingly give the trade concessions and other privileges. So the company tried to make sirajuddaulah’s rival the nawab, but the plan failed.