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1500-600 BC: Vedic Period (Iron Age) 300-550: Guptas (Vakatakas in Deccan)
1500-1000: EVP SriGupta

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1000-600: LVP Ghatotkach
320-340: Chandragupta I-Kumaradevi
6th century BCE-413 BC: Harnyaka Dynasty 340-380: Samudragupta-Dattadevi (Indian Napoleon)
544-492 BC: Bimbisara (Magadha Empire, capital at Rajgriha) 380-413: Chandragupta II-Kuberanaga (aka Vikramaditya)
516 BC: Iranian ruler Darius penetrates into NW India 413-455: Kumargupta

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Buddha and Mahavira’s lifetime 455-467: Skandagupta (Huna Invasion)
492-460 BC: Ajatasatru: 487 BC: 1st Buddhist Council (Rajgriha) 476: Western Roman Empire comes to an end (End of Ancient, start of Middle)
460-444 BC: Udaiyin (laid the foundation of Patliputra)
550-647: Pushyabhutis of Thaneswar

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413-345 BCE: Sisunaga Dynasty Middle 6th Cen: Prabhakarvardhana
413-395 BC: Sisunaga (capital shifted to Vaishali) 606-647: Harshavardhan
383-367 BC: Kalasoka: 2nd Buddhist Council 632: Prophet Md dies

344-322 BCE: Nanda (Mahapadma Nanda) 543-755: Chalukyas of Vatapi 575-897: Pallavas of Kanchi

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345-329 BC: Mahapadmananda (called Ugrasena and Ekarat) 535-566: Pulakeshin I
329-321 BC: Dhanananda 610-642: Pulakeshin II
327 BC: Alexander’s (356-326 BC) Invasion, Battle of Hydaspas with Porus 655-680: Vikramaditya I
712: 1st Muslim Invasion in India (by
Md Bin Qasim)
322-185 BCE: Maurya
Simhavishnu v. Ikshvakus
Mahendravarman I v. Pulakeshin II
Narsimhavarman I v. Pulakeshin II
Mahendravarman II
Parameshvarman I v. Vikramaditya

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733-743: Vikramaditya II Narsimhavarman II
322-298 BC: Chandragupta Maurya (Jain)
743-757: Kirtivarman II
Megasthenes (sent by Seleucus Nikator) visits his court

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He defeated Dantidurga
298-273 BC: Bindusara (Ajivika):
Deimachus (sent by Antiochus, a Syrian King) visits his court
273-232 BC: Ashoka: 750-1000: Palas, Rashtrakutas & Pratiharas
265-261 BC: Kalinga War Gurjar-Pratihara 752-982: Rashtrakuta Pala
250 BC: 3rd Buddhist Council 735-756: Dantidurga 750-770: Gopala
756-774: Krishna I 770-810: Dharampala
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187-185 BC: Brihadratha
774-780: Govinda II
181-71 BCE Shungas | 71-27 BCE Kanva 780-793: Dhruva
200BC-300AD: Foreign invasions+ Satvahanas (100 BCE-2nd CE) 788: Adi Shankaracharya
1. Indo Greeks (180 BCE-90 BCE) (Menander (165-145 BC)) 836-885: Mihir Bhoja 793-814: Govinda III 810-850: Devpala
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2. Sakas (90 BCE-150 AD) 885-908: 814-878: Amoghvarsha

57 BCE: Beginning of Vikram Samvant Mahendrapala 1 878-914: Krishna II
130-152: Rudradaman Mahipala 914-929: Indra III
3. Parthians (19-226) 939-967: Krishna III
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19-45 AD: Gondopherones (St Thomas visited his court)

4. Kushanas (Two capitals at Peshawar & Mathura) 973-1190: Chalukyas of Kalyani
78-101 AD: Kanishka: 4th Buddhist Council (72 AD) 1178-1192: Prithviraj Chauhan 850-1279: Cholas
Two capitals at Peshawar & Mathura 1191: 1st Battle of Tarain 985-1014: Rajaraja Chola
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78 AD: Beginning of Shaka Era 1192: 2nd Battle of Tarain 1014-1044: Rajendra Chola

Mamluk Dynasty (1206-1290) | Kakatiya Dynasty (1163-1323)
1199-1262: Ganapati Deva expands Kakatiya Kingdom
1206-1210: Qutb al-din Aibak (Lakh Baksh)
1211-1236: Iltutmish (Silver Tanka, Iqtadari, Chahalgani, Diwan-i-Wazarat)
1215: Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede b/w King John & Nobles
1216: 3rd Battle of Tarain
1227: Chenigiz Khan dies
1236-1240: Razia Sultana
1240-1246: Bahram Shah (Chahalgani rises, murdered by Army)
1246-1266: Nasir-ud-din Mahmud (Real power with Balban)
1266-1287: Ghiyasuddin Balban (Khusrau in his court, estd Diwan-i-Ariz)
1262-1289: Rudrama Devi’s Kakatiya reign
Khalji Dynasty (1290-1320)
1290-1296: Jalaluddin (1st Sultan to be benevolent towards Hindus)
1289-93: Marco Polo visits Kakatiyas & Pandyas
1295: Model Parliament was called by King Edward I for tax raising
1296-1316: Alauddin (Gave Khusrau the title-Tuti-i-Hind)
Diwan-i-Riyasat (Commerce) & Diwan-i-Mustakhraj (Arrears)
1297: Annexed Gujarat
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Tughlaqs (1320-1413)
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1321-1325: Ghiyasuddin Tughlaq
1325-1351: MBT (Diwan-i-Kohi: Farm Loans)
Ibn Batuta visits him (Visits Gujarat in 1342)
1336-1356: Harihara (Sangam) estd Vijayanagar empire (1336-1646)
1337-1453: England’s 100 years war with France
1348-50: Black Death epidemic wipes out 30%-60% of Europe
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1347: Allauddin Hasan Gangu estd Bahmani kingdom (1347-1527)
1351-1388: FST (built Hisar, Jaunpur, Firozabad,
Estd Diwan-i-Khairat, Diwan-i-Bandgan, Diwan-i-Isthiaq(Pensions)
1356-1377: Bukkarai
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1395-1412: Nasiruddin Mahmud
1398: Timur's Invasion
1403: Gujarat Sultanate was estd by Muzaffar Shah I
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1406-1422: Devraya I
1411: Ahmedabad was estd
Sayyid Dynasty (1414-1451)
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1414-1421: Khizr Khan Sayyid
1419: Timur's invasion
1424-1434: Mubarak Shah
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1425-1446: Devaraya II
1434-1443: Muhammad Shah
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1443-1451: Alauddin Shah
1450: Johannes Gutenberg (German) invented Printing Press
Lodi Dynasty (1451-1526)
1451-1489: Bahlul Khan Lodi
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1459-1511: Md Begada in GJ
1479: He defeated Hussain Shah Sharaqi of Jaunpur
1453: Constantinople Fell to Ottoman Turks
1455-85: War of the Roses (House of York (Tudor) v. Lancaster)
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1458-1461: Humayun Shah (Bahamani) had Md Gawan (Minister)
After Md Gawan, Bahmani disintegrates into 5 kingdoms
1489-1517: Sikandar Lodi (Founded Agra & wrote Gulrakhi)
1492: Columbus found America
1498: Vasco-Da-Gama lands in Calicut
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1509-30: Krishnadevray (Niccolo Conti & Domingo paes visit)
Lahjat e Sikandari is a unique book on Music
His Minister built Moth ki Masjid
1517-1526: Ibrahim Lodi
1518: Battle of Khatoli (Rana Sanga of Mewar v. Lodi)
1518: Kabir Died (1440-1518)
Babur (1526-1530) (Tuzuk-i-Babri)
April 1526: 1st Battle of Panipat (Babur v. Lodi) (used Tulguma s/s of warfare)
1527: Battle of Khanva (Rana Sanga v. Babur)
1528: Battle of Chanderi (Malwa v. Babur)
1529: Battle of Ghaghra (Babur v. Md Lodi+Nusrat Shah)
1529: Turks knocks on Vienna's gates
1520-1566: Sultan Suleyman aka Suleyman Qanuni (Ottoman)
Humayun (1530-1556)
1534: Treaty of Bassein b/w Sultan Bahadur of GJ (1526-37) & Portuguese
1539: Battle of Chausa with Suri (Suri becomes Sher Shah Suri)
Guru Nanak died (1469-1539)
1540: Battle of Bilgrama/Kanauj with Suri
1540: Navanagar (now Jamnagar) was estd by Jam Rawal
1540-55: Suri (Built Purana Qila, Malick Md Jayasi composed Padmavat)
1544: Battle of Sammel (Suri v. Jodhpur+Ajmer)

Akbar (1556-1605)
1556: Akbar was crowned at Kalanaur
Phase-1: 1556-70
1556: 2nd Battle of Panipat (Akbar v. Hemu)
1565: Battle of Talikota (Vijayanagar) or Bannihatti or Rakshasa-Tangadi
1568: Sisodiya Capital of Chittor was seized
1569: Ranthambhor was seized
Phase-2: 1570-85 (Campaign to Gujarat, Bihar, Bengal & Orissa)
1570-80: 10 year land survey of Todar Mal
1572: Sidi Saiyad Mosque was constructed | 1st attack on Gujarat
1573: 2nd attack on Gujarat
1574: Captured Bengal
1576: Battle of Haldighati (Akbar v. Rana Pratap)
1576: Jesuit Missionaries start 1st Printing Press in India
1579: He issued Mahzarnama
1581: He marched towards Kabul to capture it
Abul Fazl, Faizi, Faqir Aziaudin, Tansen, Birbal, Todar Mal (FM), Man Singh,
Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khan, Mirza Aziz Koka were his Navaratna in the court
Phase-3: 1585-1605 (Expansion)
1588: Defeat of Spanish Armada
1591: Raja Man Singh defeated Chero tribals in Jharkhand
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1598: Edict of Nantes was issued by Henry IV of France (Bourbon)
1601: Khandesh Sultanate was annexed | Buland Darwaja was built
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1558-1603: Queen Elizabeth (Golden age of the English History)
Jahangir (1605-1627)
1605: Dutch estd 1st factory in India at Masulipatanam
1606: Guru Arjan (5th Guru) was beheaded for supporting prince Khusrau
1609: Hawkins and Thomas Roe visited his court. (Roe got Farman for Surat)
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1610: Virginia became 1st British Colony in USA
1611: Brits estd Factory in Masulipatanam
1612: Loss of Surat to English (Factory was estd in 1613)
1620: Danish estd 1st Indian Factory in Tanjore
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Shah Jahan (1627-1658) (Golden Age of Mughal Empire)
24th Jan 1628: Shah Jahan ascended to the throne in Agra
1633: Ahmednagar was annexed
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1635: Bijapur & Golconda were annexed (Successful Deccan Policy)
1639: Factory was estd in Chennai
1648: Peace of Westphalia ends 30 years war (1618-48) b/w Catholics &
Protestants
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1649: Charles I is beheaded in England
1651: Shah Shuja (Prince) allowed English to trade in Bengal
1656: He takes Ahmednagar
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Bernier & Tavernier (French), Manucci & Peter Mundy (Italian) visited
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Aurangzeb (1658-1707)
1658: Battle of Dharmat & Battle of Samugarh with Dara Shikoh for throne
1659: Battle of Khajwah (AZ v. Shuja of Bengal)
1659: Battle of Deorai with Dara Shikoh
1659: Battle of Pratapgarh (Shivaji kills Afzal Khan)
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1662: Mir Jumla defeats Ahoms but could not sustain
1664: French estd 1st Indian Factory in Surat
1664: Shivaji (1630-1680) Loots Surat
1665: Treaty of Purandar (Shivaji surrender forts)
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1668: Brits (Charles II) get Bombay from Portugese (Dowry)
1670: Shivaji Loots Surat
1671: Battle of Saraighat against Lachit Borphukan (Ahom)
1674: Shivaji is crowned in Raigad (1674-1680)
1675: AZ killed Guru Tegh Bahadur
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1685: Bijapur is annexed
1686: EICo gets defeated by Mughal.
1687: Golconda is annexed (Gov: Mir Jumla)
1688: 1st Municipal Council set up in Madras
1688: Glorious Revolution in England
1689: Gentlemen's Resolution in English Parliament
1698: EICo gets Zamindari of three villages. (Sutanati, Kalikata, Gobindpur)
1707: England & Scotland united to form Great Britain
1708: British Parliament got the Right to elect the ruler of British Throne
Bahadur Shah I (1709-1712)
Shah-i-Bekhabar
Tolerant towards Hindus
Jahandar Shah (1712-13)
1st Puppet Mughal King (Real power with Zulfiqar Khan)
Introduced Ijarah
Farruk Shiyar (1713-19)
1715: Banda Bahadur was captured and killed
1717: He granted Farmans to EICo granting trade concessions.
Ascended with help of Sayed Bros. But after his 3 attempts to kill them, Bros kill
him with help of Balaji Vishwanath
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Md Shah Rangila (1719-48) Warren Hastings (1772-85)
1720, 1722: Sayed Brothers die. Every accumulation of knowledge is useful to the state..it lessens the weight

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1739: Nadir Shah Invasion of the chain by which the natives are held in subjugation.
Autocrat states emerged (Saadat Khan, Murshid Quli Khan, Niazam-ul-Mulk)  First Governor of Bengal (Presidency of Fort William)
1741: Battle of Colachel (b/w Travancore & Dutch EICo)  He joined British EICo as a clerk in 1750 & sailed out to India, reaching
1746-48: 1st Carnatic War (Anglo-French) (Battle of St Thome) Culcutta in Aug, 1750
1773: Regulating Act

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Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1748-54) 1773: Boston Tea Party | France abolished slavery
1749-54: 2nd Carnatic War (Battle of Ambur)
Blinded and imprisoned by his wazir Imad-u-Mulk
1774: SC of Culcutta was estd

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1774: He restored Faujdars to suppress Violence
Alamgir II (1754-59) 1774: 1st Philadelphia Convention
1756-63: 3rd Carnatic War (7 years War- across world) (Battle of Wandiwash)
1757: Battle of Plassey 1776: Chuar Uprising led by Durjan Singh against rising demands & economic
privation by British
Shah Alam II (1760-1806) 4th July 1776: US Independence (2nd Phil. Convention)

In fear of Wazir, he remained as a refugee with Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh
1761: 3rd Battle of panipat (Abdali v. Balaji Baji Rao)
1764:Battle of Buxar
1767-69: 1st Anglo-Mysore War (Robert Clive)
1770: Great Bengal Famine (John Cartier 1769-1772)
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1776: Wealth of Nations was published
1778: Pahariyas (Martials) Rebellion against British expansion on their land
1780-82: James Augustus Hickey published Bengal Gazette (1st Newspaper)

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Peak of International Slave Trade 1781: Act of Settlement divided powers b/w GG-in-Council & SC of Culcutta

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1760s: Adam Smith 1781: He founded the Culcutta Madrasa for promotion of Islamic Studies
1763: Greenwill's Policy
1767: Townsed Plan 1783: Treaty of Paris
1770: Boston Masscre
1784: Pitt's India Act (3+1) & BoC was introduced
1784: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded along with William Jones
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 Zamindars were given Judicial Powers
 Establishment of Civil & Criminal Courts in Each District
 Policy of Ring Fence:
o 1st Rohilla War (1773-74)
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o 1st Maratha War (1775-82)

 Started with Treaty of Surat and concluded with Treaty of
Salbai
 1776: Treaty of Purandar
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 1779: Treaty of Wadgaon

o 2nd Mysore War (1780-84): Treaty of Manglore
1785: Charles Wilkins translated Bhagvad Gita
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Lord Cornwallis (1786-93) Awadh (1801)
1786: The Act of 1786 gave power of both GG & Commander in Chief to  Peshwa (1802)

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Cornwallis and allowed GG to override council o Treaty of Bassein with Baji-Rao 2
o 2nd Anglo Maratha War (1803-05) (Battle of Assaye: Arthur
1787: 3rd Philadelphia Convention (Birth of USA & IR in it) Wellesley v. Maratha)
1799: Censorship of the Press Act
1789: Fall of Bastille, France (French Revolution) 1799: Hawa Mahal was built by Sawai Pratap Singh (grandson of Man Singh)

1790: 1st Modern Census of World in America
1790-92: 3rd Anglo-Mysore War concluded with Treaty of Seringpattanam.
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1799: Rise of Napoleon
1800: Fort William College was estd in Culcutta to train and orient future
administrators. So, he is aka Father of Civil Services in India.

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1791: Jonathan Duncan Founded Sanskrit College, Benaras
1791: He organised Police Force (SP+daroga etc) 1803: In a ‘minute’, he emphasised the need for town planning
1791: 1st Constitution of France
Sir George Barlow (1805-07)
1793: Cornwallis Code: 1806: Sepoy Mutiny of Vellore
 Judicial reforms (estd lower courts, 7 appellate courts)

 Separation of Revenue Admn & Civil Jurisdiction of Collector)
1793: Permanent Settlement was introduced in Bengal. (aka Zamindari
System)
 He introduced Police Reforms, according to which each district was
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1806: Bank of Culcutta was estd (converted to Imperial bank in 1921)
1805: Egypt cedes from Ottoman Empire. Md Ali rules Egypt for 1805-48
1805: Battle of Trafalgar (Continental policy of Napoleon)

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 Europeanisation of Admn & Introduction of Civil Services in India 1808-09: Revolt of Diwan Velu Thampi (Travancore)

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Sir John Shore (1793-98) 1809: Treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh
1793-94: Reign of Terror in France (communism & abolishion of slavery) 1809: Roy Published ‘Gift to Monotheists’
1793: Charter Act
 20+ years Monopoly 1810: Post De-position and imprisonment of Spanish King Ferdinand VII by
 Veto Power to GGoB Napoleon
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 Salaries of BoC to be paid by Company 1810: Chile organised 1st Govt Junta (assembly) for self-rule.
 It reserved all posts worth 500 pounds per annum for covenanted
servants. 1811: 1st attack of Luddite Mvt in Britain
1794: Regulation was passed to Criminalise Female Infanticide
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1794: 2nd Rohilla War 1813: Charter Act

Policy of Non-intervention
Lord Hastings (1813-23)
1795: Battle of Kharda b/w Nizam & Maratha He ended the policy of non-intervention of John Shore
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1816: Anglo-Nepali war concluded with Treaty of Sugauli

Lord Richard Wellesley (1798-1805) 1817-19: 3rd Anglo-Maratha War. (Complete destruction of Pindari Clan)
He adopted the Policy of Subsidiary Alliance to include.. 1st Jan 1818: Koregaon Ranstambh
 Nizam of Hyderabad(1798)
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1814: Paika Rebellion or Khurda Uprising under Bakshi Jagbandhu Bidyadhar

 Mysore (1799-4th Mysore war)
& Raja Mukunda Deva
 Tanjore (1799)
1814: Roy formed ‘Atmiya Sabha’ to preach monotheism advocated by

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1825: England introduced passenger trains
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1826: Amphictyonic Congress was estd by Simon Bolivar to bring together
1815: Battle of Waterloo the new republics of latin America to develop a unified policy towards Spain.
1815: Vienna Congress (Panama+Venezuela+ Colombia+Ecuador+Peru+Bolivia)

1816: Year w/o Summer 1827: Ho Uprising led by Raja Parahat

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1817: Roy helped to estd Hindu College, Culcutta 1828: Ahom Revolt happened as Brits didn't went out of Assam after 1st Anglo-
1817: NY Stock Exchange was estd (Cotton Chain reaction) Burmese war

1818: Bombay Presidency was created
1818: Peace Treaty with Kingdom of Jaisalmer
1818-20: Waghera Uprising led by Waghera Chiefs of Okha Mandal
1819: Fairaizi Mvt was founded in Bengal by Haji Shariat Allah & his son Dadu
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Lord William Bentick(1828-35)
 He was a British Soldier and Statesman
 He also suppressed female infanticide and Child Sacrifice
 He abolished the office of SP, Provincial Courts of Appeal & Circuit
 He introduced the option to use Vernacular language in court. (In

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1819: Kutch Rebellion by Rao Bharamal
1819: Culcutta Female Juvenile Society was estd by Christian Society
1820: Ryotwari System was estd in Madras (Thomas Munro + Alexander Reed)
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Supreme Court, Persian was replaced with English)
1829: Bengal Sati Regulation (efforts of Raja RM Roy)
1829: Suppression of Thugee
1829-33: Khasi Revolt led by Tirath Singh

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1820: Missouri Agreement b/w North & Southern states of USA 1830: Brahmosabha (1828) became "Brahmosamaj”
1830: Radhakant Deb estd Dharma Sabha to counter Brahmosamaj

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1830: French Revolution to make "Citizen King"
1821: Peru declares independence from Spain

1822: Mahalwari was introduced in Northern India by Holt Mackenzie & RM Bird 1831: Kol Rebellion led by Budho Bhagat
1822: Liberia was founded as a home of Freed slaves 1831: Narkelbelia uprising in 24 Pargana inspired by Titu Mir
1822: Prince Dom Pedro declared independence of Brazil from Portugal
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1832: 1st Paper Mill in Serampore, WB
(Acting) John Adams (Jan-Aug 1823)
1823: Licencing Regulation 1833: Charter Act or St Helena Act (GGoB became GGoI)
1823: Roy & Dwarkanath Tagore along with William Adams founded Calcutta 1833: Anti-slavery society was estd in USA
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Unitarian Committee 1833: Slavery was ended in Britain

Lord Emherst(1823-28) 1835: English Education Act made English the language of Higher Education.
1822-29: Ramosi Uprising under Chittur Singh in Satara, MH (based on Macaulay's Minute)
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1835: Medical College & Hospital was estd in Culcutta. (1st Medical College in
1824-26: 1st Anglo-Burmese War concluded with Treaty of Yandabo India)
1824: Mutiny of Barrackpur
1824: James Princep estd Sanskrit College, Culcutta for liberal Arts (Acting) Sir Charles Metcalfe (1835-36)
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During his short tenure, he removed restriction on Press (Licensing Regulation,

1825: Roy estd Vedanta College 1823)
1825: Pagalpanthi Revolt led by Karam Shah & his son Tipu 1836: He estd Culcutta Public Library (now, National Library of India)
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Lord Dalhousie (1848-56)
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1836: Bangbhasha Prakashik Sabha estd by associates of Raja Rammohan Roy 1848: Introduced Doctrine of Lapse
(1772-1833) 1848: Satara
1849: Jaipur & Sambalpur
1837: Red Hill Railways b/w Red Hills & Chintadripet Bridge, Madras (1st 1852: Udaipur
Railway in India) 1853: Jhansi & Nagpur

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1837-56: Khond Uprising led by Chakra Bisoi in Orissa against interference in 1848-49: 2nd Anglo-Sikh War (Battle of Chillian Wala)
Tribal Customs 1852: 2nd Anglo-Burmese War (to humiliate & annex more territory)

1838: Landholders' Society was launched by Dwarkanath Tagore 1849: Bethune School was founded in Culcutta for women's education

1839: Tatvabodhini Sabha was formed by Debendranath Tagore
1839: 1st Bengali Daily newspaper Sambad Prabhakar was published by
Ishwar Chandra Gupta (Was weekly since 1831)
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1849: Paramhans Mandali was estd in Bombay by Pandurang
1850: Lex Loci Act aka Religious Disabilities Act
1851: GSI was estd to map coal required for Railways

1838-42: The Forward Policy led to British defeat in 1st Afghan war
1839: Sindh accepted Subsidiary Alliance
1839-42: 1st Opium War with China concluded with Treaty of Nanking
1840: Bank of Bombay was estd (converted to Imperial bank in 1921)
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1851: 1st Telegraph line was opened b/w Diamond Harbour to Culcutta
1851: British Indian Association in Bengal was estd by merging Landholders
Society (1838) & Bengal British India Society (1843)
To petition for separation of Executive & Judiciary
To abolish Salt Duty, Stamp duty

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1840: Harmonium was invented in France 1851: Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha was founded by DB Naoroji, SS
Bengalee, Nauroji Furdonji

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Lord Ellenborough (1842-44)
1843: British defeat Scindias (Maratha) in Gwalior War (due to failed Anglo- 1852: Satya Prakash (GJ) was started to advocate Widow Remarriage
Afghan War) 1852: Bombay Association (Jamshedji-1st President, Jagannath Shankar Seth-
1843: Bank of Madras was estd (1921-converted to Imperial Bank of India) 1st Chairman) (Naoroji later started 6 schools for girl education through this)
1843: Slavery was abolished in India (recommended by Charter Act, 1833) 1852: Madras Native Association (Gazulu Laxminarasu Chetty) were estd.
1843: Bengal British India Society was estd by George Thomson
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1843: Sindh was annexed 1853: Charter Act
1853: 1st Railway Line was opened from Bombay to Thane
Henry Hardinge (1844-48)
1844: Surat Salt Agitations against increased Salt Duty 1854: Estd Public Works Dept
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1844: Gadkari Revolt
1845-46: 1st Anglo-Sikh War concluded with Treaty of Lahore (Brits
confiscate Kashmir from Sikhs and sell it to Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu for ₹75
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1854: Indian Post Office Act: Postal System was estd.
1854: Wood's Dispatch was passed, which provided the proper system of
education from School to University
1854: Republican Party was estd in USA

lakh) 1854-56: Crimean War

1847: Estd Roorkee Engineering College (1st Engineering College) 1855: Santhal Rebellion (Sidho & Kanhu)
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1848: Marx launched Communist manifesto

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Lord Canning (1856-62) Lord Elgin (March 1862-Nov 1863)
1856: Hindu Widows Remarriage Act (Drfated by Dalhousie, passed by 1862: HCs of Culcutta (2nd July), Bombay (14th Aug) & Madras (15th Aug) were

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Canning) estd
1856: General Services Enlistment Act (Abolished allowance of Soldiers) 1862: Maharaj Libel Case (Karsandas Mulji challenged Sexual malpractices in
1856-60: 2nd Opium War Pushtimarg)

1857: University of Culcutta, Bombay, Madras were estd 1863: Satyendranath Tagore becomes 1st Indian Civil Servant

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1857: Rebellion (25th Aug 1857: Azamgarh Proclamation to stress Communal
Amity among Rebels) Lord Lawrence (1864-69)
 He withdrew the Doctrine of Lapse Policy of Masterly Inactivity
 He initiated decentralisation He opened Telegraph line with Europe

 ICS was formed
June 1858: Rani Laxmibai martyred on Battle Field
1859: Code of Civil Procedure was enacted
1859: Limitation Law was passed to control debt of Ryots
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He introduced various reforms & became the member of Punjab Board of Admn
after 2nd Sikh War. So, he is known as the Saviour of Punjab.
He created Indian Forest Dept
1864-65: Bhutan War- annexed Assam & Bengal Duars

1859-60: Indigo Revolt in Bengal led by Digambar & Bishnu Biswas
(Dinabandhu Mitra wrote Neeldarpan)
1860: IPC was enacted
1860: Income Tax was imposed amid Famine years
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1864: He estd Summer Capital at Shimla
1864: 1st International (International Working Men's Association) was formed
(Dissolved in 1876)
1865: London India Society was estd by DB Naoroji & WC Bannerjee

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1860: Act to increase age of consent to 10 years for girls 1865: 13th Amendment was passed. (USA)
1865: International Telecommunications Union was founded (Oldest Int’nal Org)

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1861: Indian High Courts Act
1861: ASI was estd by Alexander Cunningham 1866: Allahabad HC was estd
1861: Indian Civil Services Act (to form Imperial Services) 1866: George Campbell Commission was estd to investigate Odisha Famine
1861: Indian Council Act changed [(4+1)+6] to [(5+1)+6-12] 1866: East India Association, London estd by Dadabhai Naoroji
 3 non-official legislative members; (Beginning of Representative 1866: Jaipur School of Arts was estd by Sawai Ram Singh
institutions by associating Indians in legislative Process) 1866: Keshabchandra Sen founded Brahmosamaj of India
&
1. Maharaja of Patiala
2. Raja of Benaras 1867: Statistical Survey of India was organised
3. Sir Dinkar Rao 1867: Registration Act for Press
 Recognised Portfolio System, which was Introduced in 1859 1867: USA buys Alaska
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 New Legislative Councils for Bengal (1862), NWFP (1886), Punjab 1867: Canadian Federation is Formed
(1897)
1861: Prarthana Samaj estd 1868: Meiji Restoration in Japan ends Shogun period
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1861-65: American Civil War

1861: Confederation of States separated from USA (Abraham Lincon 1861-65) Lord Mayo (1869-72)
1861: Russian serfs are freed He opened Rajkumar College in Rajkot & Mayo College in Ajmer for political
1861: Italy is reunited training of Indian Princes
He started Financial Decentralization in India, He also visualized LSG
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1862: Criminal Procedure Code was enacted. institutions.

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1869: Suez Canal opens 1876-78: Deccan Famine kills more than 1 mn (1880: Strachey Commission
was estd)

1870: He enacted amended Sedition Act to counter Wahabi Movement
1870: Keshab Chandra Sen estd Indian Reforms Association
1870: Poona Sarvajanik Sabha estd by Ranade
1870: Sasipada Banerjee started a Workingmen’s Club & newspaper “Bharat
Shramjeevi”
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1877: 1st Delhi Durbar was organised post Royal Titles Act, 1876 of Birtish
Parliament to Decorate Queen Victoria with the title of Kaiser-i-Hind
1877: Statutory Civil Services reduced the maximum Age from 21 to 19.
1877: Jamshedji estd 'Empress Cotton Mills'

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1877: Treaty of San Stefano (After Russia & Bulgaria win over Turkey)
1871: Paris Commune (1st revolution inspired by Socialist ideas.) 1877: Bank of Japan was estd to Fund Japanese IR
1871-73: Iwakura Mission under Meiji Govt visits US& Europe 1877: Satsuma Rebellion in Japan

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1872: 1st Census of India was held 1878: Vernacular Press Act (aka Gagging Act)
1872: Criminal Tribes Act  Amrit Bazar Patrika jumped to English overnight
1872: Civil Marriage Act banned Child Marriage (14 & 16 yrs) 1878: Indian Arms Act
1872: Special Marriage Act was passed post Brahmo Samaj's campaign. 1878: Indian Forest Act, 1878
1872: He became only Viceroy to be murdered in office by a Pathan (Sher Ali 1878: Sorabjee Shapoorji Bengalee tried to get a Bill to provide better working

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Afridi) in Andaman conditions passed in the Bombay Legislative Council
1878: Berlin Congress (Bismark distributed Russian Gains!)
Lord NorthBrook (1872-76)
1873: Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation was passed 1879: Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act
1873: Jyotiba Phule launced Satyasodhak Samaj 1879: Pabna Uprising

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1873-76: Pabna Uprising (Agrarian League was formed by peasants for litigation
costs) 1880: Narain Meghaji Lokhande started the newspaper “Deenbandhu” & set up

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Bombay Mill and Millhands Association (1890)
1874: Assam was separated from Bengal.
1874: Universal Postal Union was estd by Treaty of Bern Germany and Italy emerge as unified Nation-states

1875: Arya Samaj was founded Lord Rippon (1880-1884)

1875: MAO College was estd
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He again increased Max Age in Civil Services to 21 yrs
1875: Theosophical Society estd in NY by HP Blavatsky & HS Olcott
1875: Young Women’s Christian Association, Culcutta formed. (Became 1881: Negotiable Instruments Act
National in 1896) 1881: 1st Complete Census of India
1881: 1st Factory Act banned Child labour (<7)
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1876: Santhal pargana Tenancy Act to pacify Santhal Rebellion 1881: Keshab Chandra Sen estd Church for Tabernacle of New Dispensation
1876: Dramatic Performances Act
1876: Indian League was estd by Sisir Kumar Ghosh for Nationalism
1882: Hunter Commission (on Education)
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1882: Repealed Vernacular Press Act

1882: Govt Resolution on LSG (aka Magna Carta of LSG in India)
Lord Lytton (1876-1880) 1882: University of Punjab was estd
His Policy of Proud Reserves led to 2nd Afghan war (1878-80), which 1882: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandmath (Sanyasi Rebellion of
concluded with Treaty of Gandmak
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1876: Indian Association of Calcutta was estd by SN Benergea, AM Bose 1883: Illbert Bill was passed.
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1891: 2nd Factory Act (<9 & no Women at Night)
Act, 1876 1891: Age of Consent Act (Min age 12 for Girls) post Rukmabai Cae (1884) &

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1883: Dayanand Saraswati dies, post which conservatives dominate Arya Samaj Phulmani Dasi [Queen Victoria v. GoI] (1888)
1891: Battle of Khongjom (b/w Brits & Manipuris)
1884: Madras Mahajan Sabha was estd by M Veeraraghavachariar, G
Subramaniyer, P Anadacharlu) 1892: Indian Council Act
1884: Deccan Education Society was formed by Tilak  [(5+1)+6-12] to [(6+1)+10-16]

1884: International Meridian Conference Invented time (Greenwich Meridian)
1884-85: Berlin Conference: Scramble of Africa
Lord Duffrein (1884-1888)
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 Budget can be only discussed
 It introduced the limited electoral system
1893: Durand Commission was set up to demarcate Indo-Afghan boundary
1892-93: Riots in Maharashtra during Moharram

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1885: Indian Telegraph Act 1893: Tilak starts Ganpati festivals
1885: Bengal Tenancy Act (to end Pabna Uprising) 1893: Vivekananda at Chicago Convention
1885: 3rd Anglo-Burmese War 1893: Gaekwad introduced compulsory education in Amreli. (extended to whole
state in 1906)
1886: Aitchison Committee was estd to review Civil Services 1893: Indian Parliamentary Committee was set up in House of Commons by

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1st May 1886: Workers hold protest in Chicago William Wedderburn & WS Caine
1893: New Zealand grants suffrage to all adult Women too.
1885: Bombay Presidency Association was estd by Phirozshah Mehta &
badruddin Tyabji Lord Elgin II (1894-1899)
28th Dec 1885: INC founded in Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College by 72 1895: Welby Commission to look into expenses

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1885: 1st Skyscraper (Home Insurance Building) was built in Chicago, USA 1895: Indian Social Conference detached from INC at Poona Session

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1894-95: 1st Sino-Japanese War.
1887: Intelligence Bureau (IB) was created 1895: 1st Film was made
1887: Indian Social Conference was estd by MG Ranade & Raghunath Rao
1896: Famine & Plague
1888: United India Patriotic Association (UIPA) was estd by Sir Syed Ahmed 1896: Vande Mataram was sung for the 1st time in Congress Session by Tagore
1896: GK Gokhale estd Deccan Sabha to counter Tilak's capture of Poona
&
Khan to counter INC
1888: Deoband School issued Fatwa against MAO & UIPA Sarvajanik Sabha.
1896: Shivaji Festival was introduced.
Lord Landsdowne (1888-1894) 1896: Modern Olympics are estd in Athens
1896: Ethiopians successfully retaliated Italians in Battle of Adowa
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1888: Aravipuram Mvt was launched by Sri Narayan Guru

1888: Slavery was abolished in Brazil
1897: Epidemic Diseases Act & Plague Commission head WC Rand was shot
1889: Inter-Parliamentary Group was estd dead by chapekar brothers
1897: Lyall Commission (2nd Famine Commission)
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1889: Ahmediyaa Mvt was launched by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed (Liberal)

1889: British Committee of INC (chairman: William Wedderburn) was estd 1897: Ramakrishna Ashram estd @ Belur Math
1889: 2nd International was formed (lasted till 1916). It gave call to celebrate 1897: Tilak was defended by Jinnah in Sedition trial & Natu Bros were deported
May Day over death of WC Rand
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1890: Sikkim-Tibet Convention 1898: Fowler Committee was estd to examine Currency situation in India
1898: Central Hindu School, Benaras was estd by Annie Besant
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Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
Conservative Policies: Sanatan Dharma Sabha (1895)

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1899: Culcutta Corporation (Amendment) Act increased the strength of Dharma Maha Parishad
nominated members Dharma Maha Mandali
1902: Gandhi Publishes Indian Opinion in South Africa
1900: Punjab Land Alienation Act
1903: Sree Narayan Dharma Paripalan Yogam was estd by Sree Narayan

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1902: Delhi Durbar for Edward VII (₹2 mn) Guru for development of Ezhava.
1903: Taj Hotel, Mumbai was estd
1903: Kitchener Reforms (Military) 1903: 1st Airplane was flown.
1904: Indian Universities Act (On recommendations of Thomas Raleigh

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Committee (1902)) 1904: Gandhi estd Phoenix Farm in Natal
1904: Indian Official Secrets Act 1904: Annie Besant estd Benras Hindu Girls School
1904: Treaty of Lhasa concluded Anglo-Tibetan War (Younghusband’s 1904: Ramabai Ranade estd Ladies Social Conference under National Social
expedition to Tibet) Conference
1904: Mitra Mela was merged with Abhinav Bharat

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1905: Partition of Bengal 1904: Britain joined Alliance to form Triple Entete
 19th July: Announcement 1904: Russo-Japanese War (Japan defeated Russia in 1905)
 16th October: Day of Mourning, Fasting 1904: Germany cleanse Hereo & Nama people (80000)
1905: Curzon finally resigned due to controversy with Kitchener.
Admn Policies: 1905: Miraculous year of Physics (Einstein’s 4 discoveries)

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1900: Anthony Macdonell - Famine Commission for 1899-1900 Famine 1905: Shyamji Krishna Verma estd India House, London
1901: Colin Scott Moncrief - Irrigation Commission: recommended additional 1905: Dhaka Anushilan Samiti (Pulin Bihari Das)

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₹4.5 Cr expenditure on irrigation in 20 yrs
1902: Andrew Frazor Police Commission recommended establishment of CID
1904: Ancient Monuments Preservation Act to restore India's cultural heritage
& Centralise and revive ASI
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He set up Do Commerce to promote Trade & Commerce
Agriculture Research Institute was est in Samastipur, Bihar (later shifted to
Pusa)
Largest Expansion of Railways (Set up a Railway Board)
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June 1905: GK Gokhale estd Servants of India Society.
Dec 1905: Benaras Session (GK Gokhale)
1905-07: Maji-Maji Revolt in German East Africa
Lord Minto (1905-1910)
1906: Depressed Class Mission Society was founded in Bombay
1906: 'Yugantar' was started within Anushilan Samiti
1906: Maniktala Bomb Manufacturing unit was started
1906: Poona Culcutta (DB Naoroji) Session
15th Aug, 1906: Bengal National College was estd by National Council of

1899: 1st strike by the Great Indian Peninsular Railways took place. Education-Bengal (Organisation founded by SC Mukherjee & Co.)
1899: Savarkar+Bros organised Mitra Mela in Nashik 1st Oct, 1906: Shimla Deputation (Aga Khan, Mohsin-ul-mulk) meets Minto
1899-1900: Boxer Revolution in China 31st Dec 1906: All India Muslim League was estd by Aga Khan (Shimla
1899-1902: Boer War Deputation)
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1906: Gandhi advocates Satyagraha to resist racist laws (Registration

1901: PC Ray estd Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceutical Works Ltd Certificates) (Formed Passive Resistance Association to oppose Asiatic
1901: 1st Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Rontgen Ordinance in Transvaal)
1906: Theodore Roosevelt was awarded Nobel Peace prize for ending Russo-
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1902: Anushilan Samiti (Satishchandra Basu) was founded Japanese war

1902: Midanpore Society (Jnanendranath Basu) was founded

1907: Seditious Meetings prohibition Act to curb Extremist mvt
1907: Royal Commission on Decentralisation u/r Hobhouse published report.
1907: Surat (Rasbihari Ghosh) split
1907: Jamshedji Tata estd TISCO
1907: Jinnah joined INC
1907: Ajit Singh organised Pagri Sambhal Jatta Mvt in Punjab
1907: Bhikaiji Cama hosted 1st Indian Flag at International Socialist Congress
1907: Iran was divided into 3 parts; British, Russian & Joint
1908: Chotanagpur Tenancy Act to counter Munda uprising
1908: BoB was estd
1908: Constitution of Congress was formed. (Madras) (Rasbihari Ghosh)
30th April 1908: Khudiram Bose & Praful Chaki attacked Kingsford
1908: Tilak was arrested and sent to Madalay Jail for 6 years
1909: Indian Council Act (Morley-Minto Reforms): SP Sinha
May 1909: Alipore Bomb Conspiracy Trial concluded (Aurobindo Ghosh)
17th Aug 1909: Madan Lal Dhingra was hanged for assassination of Curzon
Wyllie in London
21st Dec 1909: Anant Kanhere (18) killed Nashik Collector for prosecuting
Babarao Savarkar
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1909: Gandhi publishes Hind Swaraj narrating his ideology (Criticizes
Industrialisation & Capitalism) in South Africa
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1910: Bharat Stree Mahamandal was estd in Allahabad by Saraladevi
Chaudhrani to promote female education
1910: Bastar Rebellion (aka Bhumkal) led by Gunda Dhur & Lal Karendra Singh
1910: Savarkar was extradited & transported for life in Nasik Conspiracy Case
1910: Gokhale’s Resolution in Leg. Council for RTE (Primary) was rejected
&
1910: Gandhi estd Tolstoy Farm
1910: Japan annexes Korea
Lord Hardinge (1910-1916)
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1910: Indian Press Act
1911: 3rd Delhi Durbar for King George V cancelled Bengal partition (though
Bihar was separated) & shifted Capital to Delhi (1912)
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1911: Factories Act fixed 12 hour shifts
1911: In Culcutta Session of INC, National Anthem was sung for 1st time
1911: IISc was estd by TATA
1911: Tagore estd Shantiniketan
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1911: France agreed to give a portion of French Congo to Germany for Morocco
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1912: Ras Bihari Bose & Sanchindranath Sanyal bombed Hardinge @
Chandani Chowk (Delhi Conspiracy Case)
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1912: 1st steel rolled out in TISCO.
1912: Titanic Sank
1912-13: 1st Balkan War (Eastern Europe v. Turkey) concluded by London
Agreement of 1913 (Independence to Eastern Europe)
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1913: Govt Resolution on Education Policy
1913: Tagore wins Nobel for Geetanjali
1913: Ghadar Party is formed
1913: Jinnah joined Muslim league
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1913-14: 2nd Balkan war (b/w Bulgaria and Greece over Macedonia)
1913: South Africa introduced laws to reserve 87% land for Whites
1914: Macmohan border line was marked b/w India-China
1914: Nair Service Society was founded in Travancore
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1914: Tilak Returns
1914: Komagata Maru incident
1914: Berlin Committee for Indian Independence was formed by Virendreanath
Chattopadhyay, Champak Raman Pillai & Jnanendradas Gupta
1914: Panama Canal was opened
28th June: the Assassination
28th July 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
1915: Islington Commission Report (on Public Services)
1915: Defence of India Act (Bcz Rasbihari Bose & Sanchindranath Sanyal
attacked Hardinge)
1915: Ghadar Mutiny/ Conspiracy
1915: Hindu Mahasabha was established
1915: Provincial Government of Free India was established in Kabul
9 Jan 1915: Gandhiji returned to India from SA
May 1915: Gandhi estd Kochrab Ashram (Satyagaha Ashram)
April & Sept 1916: HRM launched by Tilak & Annie Beasant
1916: Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi was estd
1916: MMM co-founded Banaras Hindu University

Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)
1916: ZSI was estd
1916: Indian Women's University, Poona was estd by DK Karve
1916: Benaras Hindu University was estd by MMM.
1916: Lucknow Session (AC Majumdar) united Moderates & Extremists and INC
& Muslim League on condition of Lucknow Pact. (Gandhi’s 1st INC Session. He
meets Nehru. Raj Kumar Shukla requests him to visit Champaran)
1917: Annie Beasant became 1st Women President of INC (Culcutta)
1917: INC adopted Anti-Untouchability resolution for the 1st time in Culcutta
1917: Vitthalbhai successfully gets 1st Law on Compulsory education passed.
(aka Patel Act)
1917: LLR founded Indian Home Rule league in NY, USA
1917: Justice Party estd in Madras by TM Nair, Thegaraya Chetty CN Mudaliar
1917: Madras Presidency Association estd by EV Ramaswamy, Kesava Pillai
1917: Women's India Association was founded by Margaret Cousins
1917: Plague in Ahmedabad
April-May 1917: Champaran Satyagraha
June 1917: Sabarmati Ashram was estd
1917: Montagu's August Declaration in Brit Parliament declared intention for
eventual self-rule in India.
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1917: Saddler Commission to study & report problems of Culcutta University
 7 new Universities were opened
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 Kashi Vidyapith (1921) & National Muslim University (Jamia Milia 1935)
(1920) were estd
 Special Board for Women Education was estd
1917: Russian Revolution
February Revolution brings an end to Tsarist Monarchy
October Revolution=Bolshevik Revolution
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1917: British Government abolishes Indentured labour.
Dec 7 1917: USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
1918: Sydney Rawlatt Sedition Committee is estd
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1918: Ahmedabad Mill Strike
1918: Kheda Satyagraha
1918: UP Kisan Sabha estd by Gauri Shankar Misra & Indra Narain Dwiwedi
1918: Madras Labour Union was formed by BP Wadia
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1918: Every province in Brit. India gets compulsory education Acton its Statutes.
1918:14 points of Woodrow Wilson
17th July, 1918: Tsar Romanov Nicholas II is assassinated along with his family
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1919: Montague-Chelmsford Reforms: gave Women Suffrage, Minority
March 1919: Rowlatt Act (Black Act) (The Anarchical Revolutionary Crime Act)
)
1919: 3rd Anglo-Afghan War (Treaty of Rawalpindi resulted in Independece of
Afghanistan)
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Feb 1919: Gandhi formed Satyagraha Sabha against Rowlatt Bill
6th April 1919: All India Strike was launched
9th April 1919: Gandhi was arrested
13th April 1919: Jaliawala Bagh
18th April 1919: Gandhi withdrew the movement. (Himalayan Blunder)
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1919: Indian National Liberal Federation was formed by moderates (SN
Benerjee, TB Sapru etc)
1919: Scindia Steam Navigation Company estd by Walchand Hirachand
1919: ILO was estd in Geneva
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1919: Comintern is founded by Lenin (aka 3rd International) (Dissolved in 1943)
1920: 1st Direct Election to Central Assembly was held in India
May 1920: Treaty of Sevres was made Public
May 1920: William Hunter Committee (to investigate Jalliyawalan) Report was
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June 1920: All India Khilafat Conference (Allahabad)
1st Aug 1920: Death of Tilak+ NCM launch
Sept 1920: Special Session (LL Rai) approves NCM
Oct 1920: All India Trade Union Congress was estd by NM Joshi
Oct 1920: Jamia Milia Islamia is estd in Aligarh by Md Ali Jauhar, MA Ansari,
Ajmal Khan
Dec 1920: Nagpur Session (C Vijay raghavchariar) of Congress
1920: Many prominent Congress members leave INC bcz of NCM
1920: Satyendranath Bose made calculations for 5th state of Matter
1920: Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association was estd by Anusuya Sarabhai
1920: Gujarat Vidyapith was estd (1st President: Kaka Kalelkar)
1920: All India Home Rule League became Swaraj Sabha under Presidentship
of Gandhi.
1920: Awadh Kisan Sabha was estd (Awadh Rent (Amednment) Act, 1921)
1920: CPI was formed in Tashkent by Manbendranath Roy
1920: American Women were given right to vote by USA Constitution.
1921: Imperial bank of India was estd after merging Bank of Bombay, Culcutta &
Madras
1921: Public Accounts Committee was formed (Oldest Parliamentary Comm.)
Feb 1921: Kashi Vidyapith was estd
April 1921: Bose resigns ICS, returns to India & participates in NCM in July 1921
1921: Chamber of Princes was estd
1921: British Capitalists formed ASSOCHAM
1921: Sardhar Satyagraha

Lord Reading (1921-1926)
1921-27: Construction of Indian Parliament
1921: Eka Movement
1921: Moplah Rebellion
1921: Tagore founded Visva Bharati University
1921: Ahmedabad Session (CR Das Hakim Ajmal Khan)
1st Feb 1922: 1st time ICS exam was held in India. (Allahabad)
5th Feb 1922: Chauri Chaura
12th Feb 1922: Bardoli resolution ended NCM
28th Dec 1922: USSR was estd
1923: Official Secrets Act
1st Jan 1923: Swaraj Party was formed by pro-changers (CRD, MLN, AK, VP).
(Srinivas Iyenger formed Madras Province Swaraj Party)
1923: 1st May Day was celebrated in India in Madras
1923: Central Committee on Education
1923: Borsad Satyagraha (1st for Patel)
1923: Abul Kalam Azad becomes youngest (35) President of INC (Delhi)
1923: Unionist Party was formed in Punjab by landlords
1923: Interpol was estd in Lyons, France
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1924: Lee Commission for Civil Services
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1924: Muddiman Committee is estd to look into GoI Act, 1919 on request of
Pro-Changers (CR Das, Ajmal Khan, Vitthalbhai Patel, ML Nehru)
1924: Gandhi presides INC 1st & last time.(Belgaum)
1924-25: Vaikom Satyagraha led by KP Kesava Menon to open Hindu Temples
Oct 1924: Hindustan Republican Association estd by RP Bismil & S Sanyal
1924: Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy case against SA Dange, Shaukat
&
Usmani, Muzaffar Ahmed & Nalini Gupta
1925: Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee Act post 1921 Nanaka
Saheb Masscre
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1925: Self-respect movement by EV Ramaswamy Naicker
1925: Commonwealth of India Bill
1925: National Council of Women was estd as Indian branch of International
Council of Women
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1925: Vitthalbhai Patel becomes Speaker
1925: RSS was established
Aug 1925: Kakori Robbery. (Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan+2 were hanged)
Dec 1925: CPI was estd by Satyabhakta at Kanpur
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1925: Sarojini Naidu becomes 1st Indian Women President of INC.
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1926: All India Depressed Classes Association, Nagpur was estd by MC
Rajah (Pres) & BR Ambedkar (VP)
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1926: Srinivas Iyenger (Lion of the South) presided over INC’s Gauhati Session
Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
1926: Irwin inaugurated ISM, Dhanbad
1926: Trade Union Act
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1926-31: Locust Plague
1927: Harcourt Butler Committee was appointed to strengthen relations b/w
Princely states and crown.
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1927: All India Women's Conference was estd by Margaret Cousins+Sarojini
Naidu+Amrit Kaur
1927: Mahad Satyagraha led by BR Ambedkar
1927: FICCI was estd by GD Birla & Purushottamdas Thakurdas on advice of
Gandhi
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1927: Music Academy of Madras
1927: Tablighi Jamat was launched by Md Ilyas Khandalawi
1927: All India States’ People Conference was founded
1927: Kandla Port constructed by Khengarji was inaugurated by Viceroy Irwin
Dec 1927: Delhi Proposals of Muslim League.
Dec 1927: Madras Session (MA Ansari) of INC decided to boycott Simon
Commission & accept Delhi Proposals of ML
19 Dec 1927: Ram Prasad Bismil & Ashfaq ulla Khan were hanged
Feb 1928: Indian Statutory Commission (aka Simon Commission comprising 7
British MPs) visits India
Feb 1928: Birkenhead challenge at All party Conference
Aug 1928: Nehru Report (Approved by INC at Culcutta Session (MLN))
30 Aug 1928: Srinivas Iyenger, Bose & JLN fromed Indian Independence
League
Sept 1928: HRA was renamed to HSRA under CS Azad
Nov 1928: Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore while opposing Simon Commission
Dec 1928: Saunders was murdered in Lahore by BS, RG, SD (Lahore
Conspiracy)
1928: 1st All India Youth Congress was formed at Culcutta Session
1928: Bardoli Satyagraha (Maxwell Broomfield Commission)
1928: Girmi Kamgar Union conducted 6 months strike in Bombay Textile Mills
1929: Child Marriage Restraint Act (14) (Bansilal Sarda Act)
Oct 31, 1929: Irwin's Diwali Declaration: Dominion Status in Future
1929: Trade Disputes Act & Public Safety Ordinance
1929: Royal Labour Commission (Whitley Commission on Labour)
1929: Hartog Committee for education

March 1929: 14 Points of Jinnah (Delhi)
March 1929: Meerut Conspiracy Case (32 communists for organising Strike)
1929: Split in AITUC: Indian Trade Union Federation (by NM Joshi) & Indian Red
Trade Union Congress were estd by CPI
1929: Krishak Sramik Party was founded by Abdur Rahim
April 1929: Bombing of Leg. Assembly by BS & Batukeshwar Dutt
2nd Nov 1929: Delhi Manifesto of INC was presented as terms for 1st RTC
Dec 1929: Lahore Session (JLN) passed resolution on Purna Swaraj
Dec 1929: CS Azad tried to blow Irwin’s train
31st Dec 1929 midnight: Tricolour was adopted
1930: Cotton Textiles Protection Act
2nd March: Gandhi gives ultimatum to Irwin to accept demands by 11th March
12 March-6 April 1930: Salt Satyagraha
18 April, 1930: Chittagong Armoury Raid (Surya Sen)
May 1930: Dharasana Satyagraha
Nov 1930: 1st RTC
Dec 1930: Allahabad Address by Md Iqbal (ML) (Outlined the vision of
independent state in NW India)
1930: Kalaram Temple Entry Satyagraha, Nagpur (supported by Pandurang
Jiwas Sabnis)
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1930: BRA founded Depressed Classes Federation & participated in 2nd RTC
as its representative.
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27th Feb 1931: CS Azad was encountered in Alalhabad
5th March 1931: Gandhi Irwin pact
23rd March, 1931: BS, Rajguru, Sukhdev were hanged
26-29 March 1931: Karachi Resolution (Patel): ratified Gandhi-Irwin Pact,
Fundamental Rights & National Economic Policy
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Lord Willingdon (April 1931- April 1936)
Sept 1931: 2nd RTC talks break on the issues of Dominion Status & Separate
Electorate. Gandhi returns & restarts CDM.
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Dec 1931: Shanti Ghosh & Suniti Chanderi shot dead the DM in Comilla
1931: 1st trans-African Railway from Angola to Mozambique was completed.
1931: Commonwealth was estd
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Feb 1932: Bina Das fired at Governor during Convocation
Aug 1932: Communal Award by Ramsay Macdonald based on Lothian
Committee Report (Neither accepted, nor rejected by INC)
Sept 1932: Poona Pact b/w Gandhi & Ambedkar
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Sept 1932: Gandhi estd All India Anti-Untouchability League
Oct 1932: Gandhi estd Harijan Sevak Sangh (Gen Sec: Thakkar Bapa)
Nov 1932: 3rd RTC
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1933: Pakistan Declaration (Leaflet named “Now or Never” by Chaudhary
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Rehmat Ali)
1933: Culcutta Session (Nalini Sen Gupta)
1933: SR Ranganathan sets up Indian Library Association
1933: Hitler Comes to Power
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1934: RBI Act (based on Hilton Young Commission Report, 1926)
1934: Earthquake in Nepal & Bihar kills 10.7k.
1934: Congress Socialist party within INC was formed by JP Narayan &
Acharya Narayan Dev
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1934: CPI is banned. (ban was lifted in 1942 for supporting Brits during QIM)
1934: Gandhi leaves INC
1935: GoI Act
1935: Govt of Burma Act
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1935: BRA founded Independent Labour Party
1935: Jagjivan Ram estd All India Depressed Class League
1936: Sindh, Bihar & Odisha were separated.
April 1936: Lucknow Session of INC (JLN)
1936: Dutt-Bradley Thesis was published by CPI in support of INC
1936: All India Kisan Sabha was formed in Lucknow by Swami Sahajanand
Saraswati
Dec 1936: 1st INC session to be organised in a village (Faizpur, MH) (JLN) (It is
considered 1937 session. Note: 1937 is election year)
 Demand for Constituent Assembly was raised
1936: John Keynes publishes 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest &
Money'
1936-39: Spanish Civil War
Lord Linlithgow (1936-1943)
1937: Provincial Elections were held.
1937: Wardha education Conference
1938: Dwarkanath S Kotnis, an Indian surgeon was sent to China along with
medical team to assist Chinese Revolutionaries at the time of Sino-Japanese
War (1937)
 Team was cobbled together by Bose on instruction of JLN to flag anti-
colonial internationalism in Asia
1938: Haripura, Surat Session: Purna Swaraj was to also cover Princely States
1938: ML published Pirpur and Shareef Reports
1938: Trotsky founded the 4th International in opposition to Stalin’s Comintern

March 1939: Tripuri Crisis (Rajendra Prasad)
May 1939: Bose formed Forward Block
Oct 1939: Congress Resigned in states
22nd Dec 1939: Day of Deliverance by Jinnah
1939: Locust Warning Organisation was estd
1939: UN Dhebar, Patel & Gandhi led Rajkot Satyagraha against heavy tax on
peasants in the Princely State
March 1940: Ramgarh Session of INC (Abul Kalam Azad) (Bose arranged
“Anti-Compromise Conference” under Forward Bloc & Kisan Sabha)
(No session b/w 1940-46)
March 1940: Lahore/Pakistan Resolution of ML by Fazl-ul-Haq (PM of Bengal)
July 1940: Bose was arrested
8th Aug 1940: August Offer
Oct 1940: Individual Satyagraha (Delhi Chalo mvt)
15/16 Jan 1941: Bose escapes House Arrest
March 1941: SC Bose formed Free India Legion in Berlin
M/A 1942: Cripps India Mission
June 1942: Indian Independence League was formed in Bangkok by Rash
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Behari Bose
14th July 1942: Wardha Resolution to end British Rule
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8th Aug 1942: QIM (August Revolution)
Sept 1942: Capt Mohan Singh founded INA
May 1943: Caption Mohan Singh hands over INA leadership to Bose
Oct 1943: Bose formed Provisional Govt of free India in Singapore.
1943: Great Bengal (Man-made) Famine kills 3 million people
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Lord Wavell (1943-1947)
1944: Sergeant Plan for Education (recommended Universal Education)
1944: Rajaji Formula
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1944: 8 Industrialists published 'Bombay Plan'
April 1944: Battle of Kangla Tongbi near Imphal
Jan 1945: Desai-Liaqat Pact
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June-July 1945: Wavell Plan & Shimla Conference
16th July 1945: USA Conducts 1st ever Nuclear Test
6th & 9th August 1945: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
15th August 1945: Japan Surrendered
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18th August 1945: SC Bose crashed at Taihoku Airport, Taiwan
Nov 1945: INA Trial (Found guilty but released in Jan 1946)
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1945: Elections were held in both Britain & India
1945-47: Warli Adivasi Revolt
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18th-23rd Feb 1946: RIN Mutiny (HMIS Talwar, Mumbai & Hindostan, Karanchi)
19th Feb 1946: Announcement of Cabinet Mission (Pethick Lawrence, Cripps,
AV Alexander)
24th March 1946: Cabinet Mission
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May 1946: Wavell presented his “Breakdown plan” to Cabinet Mission
July-August 1946: Elections for Constituent Assembly
16th Aug, 1946: Direct Action Day
Oct 1946: Punnapra Vayalar Rebellion in Travancore against Landlord brutality
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9th Dec 1946: 1st Meeting of Constituent Assembly was held
13th Dec 1946: Objective Resolution by JLN
1946-47: Tebhaga Movement
1946: Meeting that made Amul was presided by Morarji Desai
1946: Sriman Narayan Agarwal drafted ‘Gandhian Constitution of Free India’
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22nd Jan 1947: Preamble was adopted
20th Feb 1947: Atlee’s declaration: Brits to leave India by 30th June, 1948
Lord Mountbatten (March 1947-21st June 1948)
Last Viceroy & 1st GG of Free India (Succeeded by C. Rajagopalachari)
May 1947: Dickie Bird Plan (aka Ismay Plan) was suggested by Mountbatten
3rd June, 1947: Mountbatten Plan was published.
18th July, 1947: British Parliament’s India Independence Act got Royal assent
22nd Jully, 1947: National Flag was adopted
12th Aug 1947: Cyril Redcliffe submitted the report, but it was kept classified to
prevent riots
15th Aug, 1947: India becomes independent
17th Aug, 1947: Sukarno declared independence of Indonesia
Jan 1948: Assassination of Gandhi
April 1948: WHO was estd
1948: India wins 1st Olympic Gold in field Hockey
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4 Jan 1948: Independence of Myanmar 5th April 1957: 1st democratically elected govt outside Europe forms in Kerala

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Feb 1948: 1st Draft of Indian constitution was published (CPI)
Sept 1948: Operation Polo 1957: Asian Influenza Pandemic
Oct 1948: 2nd Draft of Indian constitution was published 1957: Ghana becomes 1st independent sub-saharan Country
1948: NCC was formed on the recommendation of HN Kunzru Committee 1957: USSR Launched Sputnik & Sputnik 2
1948: Apartheid was introduced in South Africa

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1948-52: Marshall Plan to aid Europe 1958: AFSPA passed
1958: FY58 saw 1st recession
1949: NATO was estd 1958: EU estd in Brussels

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JLN (26th Jan 1950- May 1964) 1959: Dalai Lama & Team comes to Dharamshala
1950: Contingency Fund of India Act
1950: Liaqat-Nehru Pact 1st May 1960: Gujarat was formed.
1950-51: India's 1st term at UNSC. 1960: Ceylon gets world's 1st women PM
1950-53: Korean war 1960: OPEC was estd in Vienna

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1950: UNHCR estd in Geneva
1951: 1st CAA, 5 year plan 1961: Portuguese territories of Goa, Daman & Diu (12th CAA) were assimilated
1951: 1st Asian Games held in Delhi in India | 10th CAA for D&NH
1961: National Integration Council was wstd
1952: 1st General Election 1961: OECD, NAM & Amnesty International were estd

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1952: Great Smog, London 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba

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1953: Andhra was formed 1962: Sino-Indian war
1st Aug 1953: Air India was Nationalised 1962: Puducherry was formed
1953: Egypt got Independence 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1953: CIA helps coup in Iran to replace democratically elected govt by Shah
1953: Edmund Hillary & Sherpa climbs Mt Everest 1963: Official Languages Act
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1963: Nagaland was formed
1954: Panchasheel Treaty 1963: CBI was estd
1954: Chandannagar was incorporated in West Bengal 1963: Organisation of African Unity was founded
1963: Partial Test Ban Treaty
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1st July 1955: The Imperial Bank of India renamed to SBI 1963: Pakistan cedes Aksai Chin
1955: INC at its Avadi Session adopts a resolution to establish a ‘Socialistic 1963: Revonia Trial imprisons Nelson Mandela
pattern of society’
1955: Vietnam War begins (1955-75) Lal Bahadur Shashtri (June 1964- Jan 1966)
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1955: Civil Rights (for Blacks) begins in USA 1964: Shashtri approved Subterranean Nuclear Explosion Test
16th Oct 1964: China tested a Nuclear weapon to achieve sub-criticality
1956: Hindu Succession Act 1964: UNCTAD was estd in Geneva
14 Oct 1956: BRA converted to Buddhism in Nagpur
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Nov 1956: Reorganization of States 1965: India–Pakistan war breaks out. The war ends in a stalemate with both
1956: LIC was estd sides claiming victory
1956: Suez Crisis 1965: BSF was raised
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1965: Hindi becomes the official language of India (A.343) 1971: NE Council Act, 1971
1965 & 1966: Drought Years & 2nd Recession 1971: Lokayukta was Created in Maharashtra

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1965: Singapore secedes from Malaysian Federation 1971: 26th CAA abolished Privy Purse
1965: UNDP estd in New York 1971: Contempt of Courts Act
1971: Floating Exchange regime was introduced by IMF
1966: Tashkent Conference 1971: UNESCO launched MAB Program
1966: Drought caused recession in FY66 1971: China was added in UN

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1966: Seeds Act Dec 7 1971: Battle of Sylhet b/w Pakistani Army & Mukti Bahini
1966: Haryana, CG & HP were formed Dec 7 1971: Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon Mission) is launched
1966: Delhi HC was estd
1966: IFoS was created 2nd July 1972: Shimla Agreement (Indo-Pak War)

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July 1972: Charu Majumdar was taken down under Operation Steeple Chase
Indira Gandhi (Jan 1966- March 1977) Dec 1972: Satyamurthy launched CPI(ML-PWG) (People's War Group)
3rd March 1967: Naxalbari incident 1972: Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya were formed
1967: UAPA 1972: Dalit Panthers was formed.
1967: Sindhi was added in Sch VIII 1972-73: 3rd Recession

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1967: Conflict with China in Sikkim 1972-73: India's 3rd term at UNSC
1967: Boundary agreement with Myanmar
1967-68: India's 2nd term at UNSC 1973: 1st International Telephone exchange in India
1967: ASEAN was formed 1973: Foreign Exchange Regulation Act
1967: 6 Days War 1973: Project Tiger was launched

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1973: Energy Crisis induced by Oil export embargo caused Recession in FY73.
Jan 1968: Charu Majumdar formed AICCCR (All India Coordinated Committee 1973: Coal Mines were nationalised

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of Communist Revolutionaries) 1973: Anandpur Sahib Resolution
1968: The Judges (Inquiry) Act 23rd April, 1973: Keshavananda Bharati
1968: 1st Education Policy was announced (based on Kothari Commission) 1973: Yom Kippur War
1968: Protestant movement in Europe 1973: At Munich Olympics, Israeli team was taken hostage by the Palestinian
1968: Prague Spring Black September Group
1968: HG Khurana wins Nobel for DNA 1973: Oil Crisis
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1968: Blacks get Citizenship rights in USA (Martin Luther King was
assassinated) 18th May 1974: Pokharan 1.0 (Operation Smiling Buddha)
1974: Water Act
22nd April 1969: CPI(ML) was formed by Charu Majumdar 1974: Bilateral Protocol on Visits to Religious Shrines with Pakistan
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1969: Monopolies & Restrictive Trade Practices Act

1969: Nationalization of Banks 1975: Aryabhatta was launched by USSR for X-Ray Astronomy
1969: President (Discharge of Duties) Act 1975: Sikkim was formed
1969: ISRO was estd 25 Jun 1975- 21 March 1977: Emergency
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1969: Neil Armstrong lands on Moon 1975: 20 point Program

Aug 1969: Al-Aqsa was set on fire 2nd Oct 1975: RRBs were launched
Sept 1969: OIC was estd 20th Oct 1975: Tulung la Incident (Indian solder died at Indo-China Border)
1975: End of Vietnam War
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1971: Indo-Pak war 1975: Biological Weapons Convention comes into effect
1971: Manipuri, Konkani, Nepali was added in Sch VIII 1975: G7 was launched
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1984-85: India's 5th term at UNSC
1976: 42nd CAA (Socialist, Secular, Integrity, A.51A) April 1984: Rakesh Sharma travels to Space

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1976: Reunification of Vietnam
1976: 1st Ebola Outbreak in DRC Rajiv Gandhi (Oct 1984- Dec 1989)
1985: Central Admn Tribunal was estd
Morarji Desai (March 1977- July 1979) 1985: Anti Defection Law
1977-78: India's 4th term at UNSC 1985: Narcotics Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act

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July 1985: Rajiv-Longowal Accord ended Akali's agitation
1978:44th CAA moved Right to Property from FR to A.300A Aug 1985: Longowal was gunned down.
1978: Maneka Gandhi Case Judgement 1985: Shah Bano Begum Case
1978: Integrated Rural Development Program was launched 1985: SAARC was estd in Dhaka

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1978: Mandal Commission was appointed
1978: Jimmy Carter visits India 1986: Operation Flowers are Blooming to avert a coup in Seychelles
1978: Saur Revolution in Afghanistan 1986: Sumdorong Chu Stand-off with China
1986: Chernobyl Disaster
1979: Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe

1979: Soviet invade Afghanistan
1979: Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident in USA
Chaudhari Charan Singh (July 1979-Jan 1980)
1980: FY 1980 saw 4th recession due to lower oil production in the wake of
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1987: Mizoram, Arunachal, Goa were formed
1987: Minimum Alternative Tax was introduced
1987: US-Russia Intermediate Range Missiles treaty
1988: SEBI & NHB were established

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Iranian revolution. 1988: SPG Act
1980: NSA Act, 1980 1988: Operation Cactus to avert a coup in Maldives

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Nov 1979: Siege of Mecca's Grand Mosque 1988: RG visits China (1st time after 1962)
1980-88: Iran-Iraq War 1988: BASEL Norms.1 was introduced.
1988: Al-qaueda was estd
Indira Gandhi (Jan 1980-Oct 1984)
1981: ExIm Bank of India Act 1989: India-China formed a Joint Working Group for Confidence Building
1981: 1st Judges Case Measures | Operation Jupiter by INS Viraat of Indian Peacekeepers for Sri
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1981: Air Act Lanka
1981: Kailash yatra was restarted after 21 years! 1989: (April-June) Tiananmen Protests
1981: GCC was formed 1989: Revolutions in Eastern Europe
1981: 1st HIV Case was registered in USA 1989: USSR withdrew under Geneva Accord
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1982: Asian Games were held in Delhi VP Singh (Dec 1989-Nov 1990)
1982: NABARD was formed 1990: SIDBI was estd
1982: Chit Funds Act 1990: VP Singh Implements Mandal Commission Report (27% Reservation to
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1982: 1st Judges Case | 1st Lok Adalat Camp was organised in Gujarat OBCs)
1982: EVMs were tried in Kerala 9 Nov 1989: Fall of Berlin wall
1982: Falkland War (Argentina v. UK)
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1983: PCR was discovered.

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Chandra Shekhar (Nov 1990-June 1991) AB Vajpayee (May-June 1996)
1991-92: India's 6th term at UNSC

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Feb 1991: 69th CAA added A.239AA & A.239AB (Delhi) HD Deve Gowda (June 1996-April 1997)
May 1991: Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated
Aug 1990- Feb 1991: Gulf War IK Gujaral (April 1997-March 1998)
1990: Tim Berner Lee introduced WWW 1997: Asian Financial Crisis
1997: Hong Kong was handed to China

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PV Narsimha Rao (June 1991-May 1996) 1998: Amartya Sen wins Nobel
1991: India pledged a part of gold reserves to counter BoP Crisis 1998: Kerala launches Kudumbashree
1991: Insurgencies in Punjab & NE
1991: Rise of LTTE in Sri Lanka AB Vajpayee (March 1998-May 2004)

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1991: Economic reforms (Repealed MRTP Act & FERA, FPI & ECBs were 1998: National Highway Development Program
allowed for the 1st time)
1991: Japan's Asset Price Bubble 1999: Kargil war. Decisive Indian Armed Forces victory
1991: Disintegration of USSR 1999: IC 814 Hijack
1999: Lahore Declaration

1992: 73rd & 74th CAA
1992: Indra Sawhney Judgement
1992: National Commission for Minorities Act
1992: Satyajit Ray becomes 1st Indian receive Honorary Award
July-Aug 1992: Operation Trishul Shakti was launched during Siachen Conflict
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1999: G20 was estd
1999: NATO bombed Yugoslavia during Kosovo war
2000: Creation of Jharkhand, Uttarakhand & Chattisgarh
2000: Pravaasi Bharatiya Celebrations started

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Dec 6, 1992: Demolition of Babari Mosque 2000: Mekong-Ganga Cooperation was launched
1992: Earth Summit

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1992: Yugoslavia Breaks Up
2001: Gujarat EQ
2001: Antyodaya Anna Yojana
1993: Maintenance of Peace & Tranquillity Along the LAC with China 2001: Parliament Attacks
1993: Protection of Human Rights Act 2001: 85th CAA for consequential seniority for SC/ST Promotions
1993: NCBC was estd 2001: 9/11 Attacks
1993: 2nd Judges Case introduced Collegium system
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2001: Royal Massacre in Nepal
1993: UNHRC was formed in UN
1993: Look East Policy
2002: Gujarat Riots
2002: Competition Act
1994: SR Bommai Judgement
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2002: SARFAESI Act

1994: Mercasour & NAFTA 2002: RTE was added (86th CAA)
1994: Rwandan Genocide 2002: Biodiversity Act

1995: PNB & New Bank of India were merged

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2003: 91st CAA capped CoM size to 15% of LS/State Assembly, omits splits
1995: NALSA was constituted under LSA Act, 1987 from ADL
1995: WTO replaced GATT 2003: European Heatwave kills 70k people
2003: SARS outbreak
1996: Gian Kaur Judgement
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2003: USA invades Iraq (leaves in 2011)

1996: PESA
2004: Bodo, Dogri, Maithali & Santhali were added in Sch VIII
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Man Mohan Singh (May 2004-May 2014) Nov 2013: Mars Orbiter Mission launched

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2004: Launches an application for a permanent seat on UNSC 2013: Food Security Act
2004: Tsunami 2013: Land Acquisition (A) Act
2013: Kedarnath Disaster
2005: RTI 2013: Bali Round of WTO
2005: SEZ Act

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2005: MGNREGA 2014: Russia annexed Crimea
2005: Business Correspondent Scheme
Modi (May 2014-Incumbent)
2006: US and India sign a nuclear agreement 2014: PM Jan Dhan Yojana

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2006: FSSAI was estd June 2014: ISIS declares an Islamic Caliphate (captures Mosul) (US-led
2006: Nagaraj Case coalition launched Operation Inherent Resolve in Oct 2014 against it)
2006: BRICS was estd
Oct 2006: North Korea conducts a nuclear test 2015: India and Bangladesh sign a historic deal
2015: First space laboratory Astrosat

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2007: Hyderabad Blasts 2015: Paris Climate Deal
2007: Saffron Revolution by Buddhist Monks in Myanmar for democracy. 2015: ISIS terrorist strikes in California, Paris, Ankara, Turkey etc
2015: Refugee crisis in Europe due to Syrian Refugees
2008: Chandrayaan 1
2008: 26/11 attacks 2016: India to buy 36 Rafale from France

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2008: NIA Act 2016: India becomes member of MTCR
2008: Agreement on Consular Access b/w India & Pakistan

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2017: GST implemented
2009: CCI was appointed 2017: IBC
2009: RTE Act was passed 2017: BK Pavitra Case
2009: Lattha Kand in Gujarat 2017: Doklam Stand-off
2009-10: Drought years 2017: Rohingya Crises
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June 2017: Mosul is liberated from ISIS
2010: India joined FATF
2018: Floods in Kerala
2011: 97th CAA for Cooperatives: Added Part IXB, A.43B Changed A.19(1)(c) 2018: #MeToo Movement
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2011: Aruna Shaunbagh Judgement

2011-12: India's 7th term at UNSC April 2019: Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka
2011: Arab Spring (Lotus Revolution (Egypt) | Jasmine Revolution (Tunisia) | Aug 2019: Special Status of Kashmir was taken away
Pearl Revolution (Bahrain)) Oct 2019: Baghdadi is killed
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2011: Gaddafi is removed from Libya Dec 2019: CAA

2011: South Sudan cedes with large oil reserves 2019: Dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir is thrown away in Sudan. (Democratic
2011: Occupy Movement revolution)
2011: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
2nd May 2011: Bin Laden is killed
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2012: MERS Infections

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Military Reforms Education
1859: Peel Commission 1781: Culcutta Madrasa for Oriental Education (Warren Hastings)

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 Native army should be composed of different nationalities and 1784: Asiatic Society of Bengal for Oriental Edu. (William Jones)
castes which have to be mixed across regiments 1791: Sanskrit College, Varanasi for O.E. (Jonathan Duncan)
1879: Eden Commission 1800: Fort William College to train Civil Servants (Lord Wellesly)
1903: Kitchener Reforms 1813: Charter Act mandated the company to spend 1 lakh rupees per

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 Unified all Presidency armies into one Indian Army year to promote modern education in India
1921: Lord Rawlinson Committee 1817: Hindu College, Culcutta estd by David Hare +RMR (Later
1923: Inchcape Commission became Presidency College, Culcutta)
1939: Chatfield Commission 1825: Vedanta College by RMR to combine West and East learnings

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1835: Macaulay’s Minute English to be the language for Higher Edu
Public Services 1835: Bentick’s Resolution
1854: Lord Macaulay’s Report was executed  Downward infiltration Theory
 Civil Service Commission was estd in 1854 for merit-based  Opened more English schools and colleges but neglected
recruitment elementary education of massed

 1855: Exams were held in London
 1864: Satyendranath Tagore qualified it
1886: Aitchison Commission
 Drop the terms Covenated and uncovenanted.
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1854: Charles’ Wood Despatch
 Govt responsible to educate masses (refutes Downward Filtration
Theory)
 English for Higher education & Vernacular at school level
 Hierarchy of Primary Schools (Villages), Anglo-Vernacular

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 Classify ICS into Imperial, Provincial and Subordinate CS. Schools & Colleges (Districts), Affiliate Universities (Presidencies)

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 No Simultaneous exams in India and England
 Raise the Age limit to 23 from 18 (set in 1878 by Lytton)
 Abolish Statutory Civil Services (est by Lytton Baba)
1912: Islington Commission
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 No Simultaneous exams in India and England
 Asked for recruitment from both India and England
1919: MontFord Reforms
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 Laid stress on Female and Vocational Education
 Secular Edu in Govt schools & Grants in Aid to incentivise Pvt
1882-83: Hunter Commission
 Local bodies should be entrusted with the mgmt. of Primary edu
 More privatisation of schools & Colleges
1902: Raleigh Commission formed foundation for Universities Act
1904: Indian Universities Act
 Universities to give more attention to Study and Research
 Most fellows to be nominated by Govt

 Simultaneous exams in England and India passed. Allahabad  Govt to have power to veto University Senate’s regulations
(1921)  Stricter Norms for affiliation of Pvt colleges
 1/3rd recruitments to be made in India itself. 1917-19: Saddler University Commission
 Separate Board for Secondary and intermediate education
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1924: Lee Commission

 Direct recruitment to ICS based on 50:50 parity b/w Indians &  School course of 12 years mandatory for 3 years degree course
Europeans  Flexibility in framing University Regulations
 Establish PSC immediately as decided in GoI Act, 1919  Female Education, applied Scientific and Technical Edu,
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1st Oct 1926: PSC was setup in India. (1st Chair: Ross Barker) Teachers’ edu to be extended
1935: GoI Act estd Federal & Provincial PSC  7 New Universities estd (Kashi Vidyapith, Jamia Milia)

1929: Hartog Committee
 A Policy for consolidation and improvement of primary edu
 Selective system of admission of Univ & diversify courses for
Industrial careers
1934: Sapru Commission
 Intermediate stage should be abolished to leave only Primary (5
years) and Secondary levels (6 years).
 Secondary level should be further subdivided into lower secondary
and higher secondary.
1944: Sergeant Plan of Education
 Establishment of elementary schools and high schools
 Introduction of Universal and Free Education
 Abolition of intermediate courses
 Adequate Technical, Commercial and art Education
1964: Kothari Commission
 Free & compulsory primary education till 14 yrs
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 3 language formula
 6% of national income to be spent on education
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 Development of education for agriculture and industries.
Famine Commissions
1866: Campbell Commission (Odisha Famine, 1866)
 District officers were made responsible to save all preventable
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deaths
1880: Statchey Commission (Great Famine in Madras, Bombay, UP,
Punjab, 1876)
 Duty of state to provide relief to poor
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 Supply of food in distressed areas to be a priority
1883: Provisional Famine Code
 Norms for actions to be taken before and during famine
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1897: Lyall Commission (Great Famine, 1896)
 Irrigation facilities to prevent draught
 Same as Statchey Recommendations
1902: Anthony McDonnell Commission (Famine of 1899-1900)
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 Policy of Moral Strategy, early distribution of advances
 Appointment of Relief Commissioner
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Local Self Govt
1870: Mayo’s Resolution
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 Provincial Govts authorised to levy local taxation
 Transfer of Certain Dept of admn such as medical, edu, roads...
 Area: Provincial govt of Bengal, Madras, MWFP, Punkab
1882: Rippon’s Reolution
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 Development of local bodies to improve admn & education
 Administering local affairs through urban and local bodies &
definite duties
 Non-officials to be Chairpersons and majority in these bodies
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 No levy of tax without permission
 Decrease in official Interference
1908: Royal Commission on Decentralisation
 More power to village panchayats
 Emphasis on sub-district boards to be established in every taluka
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with different sphere of duties and revenue
 Primary education to be undertaken by Municipalities.
1919: Govt of India Act
 LSG under Transferred subject
 Finance of LSGs still under Reserved list
Modern Political Organisations
1836: Bangbhasha Prakasik Sabha estd by RMR
1838: Landholder’s Society estd by Dwarkanath Tagore
1843: Bengal British India Society was estd
1851: British India Association, Culcutta was estd by merging above
two
1852: Bombay Association estd (joined by DB Naoroji in 1976)
1852: Madras Native Association estd by Gazulu Laxminarasu Chetty
(Dead by 1862, replaced later by Madras Mahajan Sabha)
1866: East India Association, London estd by DB Naoroji
1870: Poona Sarvajanik Sabha estd by MG Ranade to challenge
Bombay Association
1875: Indian League estd by Sisir Kumar Ghosh
1876: Indian Association estd by SN Banerjea and AM Bose
1883: Indian National Conference organised by SNB & AMB
1884: Madras Mahajan Sabha estd M Vijayaraghavachariar+2
1885: Bombay Presidency Association estd | INC estd