Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , KB (29 September 1725 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India , was a British soldier who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Southern India and Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown. Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key figures in the creation of British India.