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Author: Sudeep Chakravarti,
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Plassey, more than two centuries after a transformative moment in global history, continues to befuddle us with its labyrinthine maze of tropes intrigue, vanity, conspiracy, betrayal, plunder, what have you. When you pronounce the word, you become complicit, somehow, in the layered and dialectical politics of nomenclature infusing its narratives, subplots, and
dramatis personae. A momentous battle or a skirmish with a fate foretold? A necessary pit-stop in the inexorable march of imperialism, or a conspiracy of diabolical machinations? If the latter, a ‘conspiracy’ hatched by scheming Company men or by duplicitous Indians? A debauched, intemperate prince unfit to rule, or a fiercely independent but ultimately hapless