Synopsis
A first-hand window into the 1757 upheaval that reshaped Bengal and British power.
Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757 by Watts, William, active 1737-1758, originally published in 1760, offers a contemporary account of the crisis around Plassey. Written amid imperial rivalry, it traces Bengal's court politics and European maneuvering. Its clear, compact narrative preserves voices, motives, and immediate consequences.
Readers encounter the volatile rise of Meer Jaffeir and Suraja Dowlat's hostility toward the English. The memoir observes alliance making, mercantile interests, and battlefield decisions with restrained, document-based clarity. Students of East India Company history and the Battle of Plassey will find a primary source that foregrounds Indian and British actors without modern overlay. The tone is judicious, factual, and focused on causes and effects.
Essential reading for colonial South Asia studies and eighteenth-century political history.
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