indian colonization

By mjbatt
  • Period: 1400 to

    indian colinization

  • 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

  • in the 1600 the decline of india started

  • the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown.

  • In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government

  • Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India

  • One such challenge was the Salt March in 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi