Arrange the following battles in chronological order, beginning with the earliest to the most recent one.
(A) Battle of Buxar
(B) First Anglo-Maratha War
(C) Battle of Plassey
(D) Third Battle of Panipat
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (C), (D), (A), (B)
(C) Battle of Plassey — 1757. Robert Clive and the East India Company defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, the earliest of the four.
(D) Third Battle of Panipat — 1761. Ahmad Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas.
(A) Battle of Buxar — 1764. The Company defeated the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, and in 1765 received the diwani of Bengal.
(B) First Anglo-Maratha War — 1775-1782, ended by the Treaty of Salbai; the latest of the four.