Modern India Notes:Prelim copy

1. Timeline
1498 — Vasco The Game came to Indian coast at Calicut
1600 — British East Indian established
1667 — French came to India
1717 — Farukh Siyyar’s farman to British East Indian Company
1757 — Battle of Plassy
1760 — Battle of Wandiwash
1761 — 3rd battle of Panipat
1764 — Battle of Buxar
1798-99 — 4th Anglo-Mysore war , Tipu sultan killed
1802 — Female foeticide illegal
1802 — Peshwa accepted subsidiary alliance
1803-04 — 2nd Anglo-Maratha War
1817-18 — 3rd Anglo-Maratha War
1817— Paika revolution in Orissa
1818 — Maratha Peshwa dissolved
1829 — Sati abolished
1856 — Widow remarriage Act
1857 — Sepoy Mutiny
1858 — British crown took over India
1877 — Vernacular press act
1882 — Vernacular press act repealed
1885 — Indian National Congress established
1891— Indian council act 1891
1903-05 — Moderate led anti-Bengal partition campaign
July 1905 — Bengal partition announced
October 1905 — Bengal partition came into being
1905- 08 — Extremist led Swadeshi and Boycott movement
1907 — Surat session of congress , Surat Split between Modrate and
extremist
1909— Morley-Minto reforms , separate electorate for muslims
1911 — Bengal partition annulled
1911 — Capital moved to Delhi
1915 — Gandhiji returned to India
1917 — Champaran satyagraha
1918 — Kheda Satyagraha and Ahmedabad Mill strike
1916-18 — Home rule movement by Tilak and Annie Besent
1916 — Congress- League pact/Lucknow Pact
1916 — Lucknow session, Extremist readmitted
1918 — Rowlett Act passed
 1918 — Rowlett Satyagraha
1919— Govt of India act 1919/Montfort reforms
1919 — Jalianwala Bach massacre
1919 — Congress session , Swarajya as goal
1920-22 — Non-cooperation and Khilaphat Movement
Feb,1922 — Chauri-chaura incidence, Movement withdrawn
1928 — Simon Commission appointed
1929 — Lahore Session , Poorna Swarrjya resolution passed
26th Jan, 1930 — Poorna Swarajya Divas
1930–31 — Civil Disobedience Movement
1931— Delhi Pact between Gandhi and Irwin
Dec’1931 — Second Round table failed
1932— Communal award declared /Poona pact
Dec’1931–34 — Second phase of civil disobedience movement
1935— Govt of India act 1935
1936— Council entry by congressman
1939 — WW II started , Congress ministries resigned
Aug,1940 — August offer by Lord Linlithgow
1940 — Pakistan Resolution
1941— Individual Satyagraha launched
March , 1942— Japan reached to Rangoon after covering whole South
-east Asia
March, 1942— Cripps Mission
Aug,1942— August Revolution /Quit India Movement
1945— Lord Wavell offer/Shimla conference
1945— C. Rajgopalchari formula
1945— Desai-Liaqut pact
1945— Election to central and provincial assembly declared
1946 — Constituent assembly constituted
June, 1946 — Cabinet mission accepted by both
Feb, 1947 — Clamant Attlee statement
June , 1947 — Mountbatten Plan
July , 1947 — Independence of India Act passed
Aug’1947 — Indian became independent

2. Advent of Europeans
Portuguese
Imp persons
Vasco Da Gama
Francisco De Almeida
Nino Da Cunha
Imp facts
Vaso Da Game reached Indian coast at Calicut in 1498 ,