Palashi Monument

This was erected in memory of the Battle of Plassey fought between Sir Robert Clive, commander of the British East India Company and Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah on 23 June 1757.

[1][2] Initially this victory memorial was stoned here in 1883, which was rebuilt later at the period of Lord Curzon.

In 2007, on the 250th anniversary of the battle, a statue of Siraj ud-Daulah was established by All India Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas on behalf of India-Pakistan-Bangladesh People's Forum.

[5] But the actual battlefield has been partially washed away by a shift of the river.

from Kolkata and 7 km from the Plassey railway station.