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Period: 1400 to
indian colinization
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1498
portugal reaches the shore of calicut
Vasco da gama of Portugal reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India -
queen ann granted a royal charter to some merchants
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in the 1600 the decline of india started
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the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal
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The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freedom to act as a free entity
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It also allowed the EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey
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The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown.
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In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government
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Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India
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One such challenge was the Salt March in 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi