Illustration showing Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, (1725 - 1774), the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. He began as a British military officer and East India Company (EIC) official who established the military and political supremacy of the EIC by seizing control of Bengal and eventually the whole of the Indian subcontinent and Myanma

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