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    Complete Modern History in 5 Minutes

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    The document provides a timeline of major events in the modern history of India from 1757 to 1948. It outlines the establishment of British political rule under Lord Clive in 1757. It also mentions key independence leaders and movements such as the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942 under Mahatma Gandhi. The timeline concludes with India gaining independence in 1947 and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.

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    The document provides a timeline of major events in the modern history of India from 1757 to 1948. It outlines the establishment of British political rule under Lord Clive in 1757. It also mentions key independence leaders and movements such as the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942 under Mahatma Gandhi. The timeline concludes with India gaining independence in 1947 and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.

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    The document provides a timeline of major events in the modern history of India from 1757 to 1948. It outlines the establishment of British political rule under Lord Clive in 1757. It also mentions key independence leaders and movements such as the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and the launch of the Quit India Movement in 1942 under Mahatma Gandhi. The timeline concludes with India gaining independence in 1947 and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.

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    Complete modern History in 5 Minutes

    1757: Battle of Plassey, establishment of British political rule in India at the hands of Lord
    Clive

    1761: Third Battle of Panipat; Shah Alam II becomes India’s emperor

    1764: Battle of Buxer

    1765: Clive appointed Company’s Governor of India

    1767-69: First Mysore War

    1780: Birth of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

    1780-84: Second Mysore War

    1784: Pitt’s India Act

    1790-92: Third Mysore War

    1793: The Permanent Settlement of Bengal

    1799: Fourth Mysore War – Death of Tipu Sultan

    1809: Treaty of Amritsar

    1833: Death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

    1839: Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh

    1839-42: First Afghan War

    1845-46: First Anglo-Sikh War

    1852: Second Anglo-Burmese War

    1853: First Railway line opened between Bombay and Thane and a Telegraph line in Calcutta

    1857: The Sepoy Mutiny

    1861: Birth of Rabindranath Tagore

    1869: Birth of Mahatma Gandhi

    1885: Foundation of Indian National Congress


    1897: Birth of Subhash Chandra Bose

    1905: First Battle of Bengal under Lord Curzon

    1906: Foundation of Muslim League

    1911: Delhi becomes the Capital of India

    1916: Lucknow Pact Signed by Muslim League and Congress

    1919: Montague-Chelmsford Reforms introduced, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre at Amritsar

    1920: Khilafat Movement launched

    1927: Boycott of Simon Commission; broadcasting started in India

    1929: Lord Irwin’s Pact; resolution of complete independence passed at Lahore Congress

    1930: Civil disobedience movement launched; Dandi March by Mahatma Gandhi (6 April,
    1930)

    1931: Gandhi Irwin Pact

    1935: Government of India Act enacted

    1937: Provincial Autonomy; Congress forms ministries

    1941: Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India and death of Rabindranath Tagore

    1942: Arrival of Cripps Mission in India; Quit India Movement launched (August 8)

    1943-1944: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose forms provisional Azad Hind Fauj and Indian
    National Army; Bengal Famine

    1945: Shimla Conference

    1946: British Cabinet Mission visits India; Interim government formed at centre

    1947: Division of India; Indian and Pakistan separate independent dimensions

    1948: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated (January 30)

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