Omichund
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Omichund, Omichand, or Umichand (, ; died 1767) was a merchant and broker during the Nawabi period of Bengal. He was one of the principal authors of the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daulah and associated with the treaty negotiated by Robert Clive before the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1767 deaths, 18th-century Indian people and 18th-century merchants.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Amir
- Gender
- male
- Occupation
- diplomat
- Image
- Lord Clive encountering the ghost of Omichand, the Sikh who was the principal merchant to the English in Calcutta, ca.1773.jpg
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- date of death
- 1767-01-01
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- Omichund
- P12749
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Omichund, Omichand, or Umichand (, ; died 1767) was a merchant and broker during the Nawabi period of Bengal. He was one of the principal authors of the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daulah and associated with the treaty negotiated by Robert Clive before the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
==Biography== Omichand's actual name was Amir Chand and he was from a Punjabi Khatri Sikh background. He had long been resident at Calcutta (Kolkata), where he had acquired a large fortune by providing the investment for the British East India Company, and also by acting as intermediary between the English and the local court at Murshidabad. In a letter of William Watts of later date, he is represented as saying to the Nawab (Siraj ud-Daulah): He had lived under the English protection these forty years; that he never knew them once to break their agreement, to the truth of which he took his oath, by touching a Brahman's foot; and that if a lie could be proved in England upon any one, they were spit upon and never trusted.
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