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Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

While still nominally the sovereign, the Mughal Indian emperor became more and more of a puppet ruler, and anarchy spread until the company stepped into the