INDIA DATES 1857 TO

Modern Day India (1757 to 1947)

India's modern history extends till its independence in 1947.

YearEvent

1757 Battle of Plassey: The British defeat Siraj-ud-daulah1760 Battle of Wandiwash: The British defeat theFrench1764 Battle of Buxar: The British defeat Mir Kasim1775 The First Anglo-Maratha war1784 Second Mysore War : The British defeat HyderAli1790 Third Mysore War between the British and Tipu1799 Fourth Mysore War: The British defeat Tipu;Death of Tipu; Partition of Mysore1805 The Second Anglo-Maratha war: The Britishdefeat the Marathas at Assaye: Treaty of Amritsar1814 The Anglo-Gurkha war1817 The last Anglo-Maratha war: Marathas finallycrushed by the British1824 The First Burmese war1839 First Afghan war1845 First Anglo-Sikh war1849 Second Anglo-Sikh war, British annex Punjab asSikhs are defeated1852 Second Anglo-Burmese war1853 Railway opened from Bombay to Thane;Telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra1857 First War of Indian Independence: The SepoyMutiny1877 Delhi Durbar: The Queen of England proclaimedEmpress of India1905The First Partition of Bengal1906Formation of Muslim League; Congressdeclaration regarding Swaraj1912The Imperial capital shifted from Calcutta toDelhi1919Jalianwalla Bagh massacre; The Montague-

Chelmsford Reforms offer limited autonomy1922Civil Disobedience Movement; Chauri-Chauraviolence leads to Gandhi suspending movement1930Civil Disobedience movement continues; SaltSatyagraha: Gandhiji's Dandi March1942Subhash Chandra Bose forms Indian NationalArmy1944Gandhi-Jinnah Talks break down on Pakistanissue1947Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan forpartition of India on June 3rd.1974Partition of India and Independence (15thAugust). Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the firstPrime Minister.

Former Ms India - Juhi Chawla

Indian Women and marriages

It is said that:

"

Heaven

is when you have an American Salary, live in aBritish house, eat Chinese food and have an

Indian

Wife

Hell

is when you have an American Wife; eat BritishFood; have a Chinese house and get an Indian Salary"

It is not contempt for the British and the Chinese, but this sounds more right:

"Heaven is when you have an American Salary, an American house and eat Indianfood and have an Indian Wife"

Indian marriages are mostly arranged marriages. That might be one reason whydivorce rate in India is amongst the lowest in the world. The other reason of courseis that Indian women are extremely understanding. Making sacrifices andadjustments are their strongest traits. Apart from winning beauty contests, Indianwomen like twenty-one year old Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi excel in brains too. Vijiwon a rare honour in July 2000, by becoming the first Indian women Chess GrandMaster (GM).

List of world's most beautiful women

Source: Femina, India

Ms Universe- Lara Dutta

YearMiss UniverseCountry

2000

19991998199719961995

1994Lara Dutta

Mpule KwelagobeWendy FitzwilliamBrook LeeAlicia MachadoChelsi Smith

Sushmita SenIndia

BotswanaTrinidadUSAVenezuelaUSA

India

Reita Faria, a young medical student from Mumbai, created history in 1966 bybecoming the first Indian to be crowned Miss World. However, it took almost twenty-six years for another Indian to win at an international beauty pageant.

Ms World - AishwariaRai

YearMiss WorldCountry

20001999

1998

1997

19961995

1994Priyanka ChopraYukta Mookhey

Linor Abargil

Diana Hayden

Irene SklivaJacqueline Aquilera

Aishwarya RaiIndiaIndia

Israel

India

GreeceVenezuela

India

History of the beautiful women of IndiaSource: Femina, India 2007

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Miss India Universe - Puja Gupta

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Miss India World - Sarah-Jane Dias

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Miss India Earth - Pooja Chitgopekar

2006

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Miss India Universe - Neha Kapur, later placed among the top 20 semi-finalists at Miss Universe

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Miss India World - Natasha Suri, top 17 semi-finalists, second runner up(beach beauty), second runner up (dress designer award), top 10 in (talentround)

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Miss India Earth - Amruta Patki, 1st runner-up Miss Earth 2006 held in Manila,Philippines

2005

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Miss India Universe - Amrita