Indian Colonization timeline

By Elisia
  • 71,865 BCE

    Control of a region

    The EIC was supplying their indian ranks with gunpowder containers that were closed with corks covered in grease which was made up of cows and pig fat. This was against the Indian soldier's region, so they replied with a mutiny. The Sepoy Mutiny of 1875 led to the direct control of territoiies perivously caputured by the EIC by the british crown. The British Crown did not want to lose full control of the region, so they stepped in to keep the region under its control.
  • 1495

    The first direct sea trade route

    The first direct sea trade route from Europe to Asia was established in 1498 when Vasco de Gama of Portugal reached the port of Calicut on the southwest coast of India.

  • Queen Anne 1

    On the last day of 1600, Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies.
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    Mughal Empire now called India

    The Mughal Empire was the wealthiest region. At its peak before 1750, the area we now call India today made up 25% of the world's industrial production. The decline of the region started 150 years before its peak.

  • First factory Post

    Around the year 1611, the British East Coast Indian Company established its first factory Post in Masulipatnum on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal.

  • EIC(East Indian Company) mission

    The EIC was on a mission to expand fast and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freemdom to act as a free entity in 1670.
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    EIC War

    With the new powers bestowed by the british ruler, The EIC was able to fight other European merchants in the indian region in order to be the most powerful. This also allowed the EIC to wage war on the states in the indian region including Siraj Ud-Daulah, the Nawba (governor) of Bengal during the battle of Plassey in 1757. 9 years later, the EIC fought the Maghul emperor and the Nawba of Oudh to gain control of Bihar and Oudh.
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    Queen Victoria

    In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred all governing authority from the EIC to the British Government. 18 years later in 1876, Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India.

  • The separation of the two nations

    By the end of World War II, the British were ready to give up rule in India which led to Indian independence and the partition of the ruled area into two seprate nations- Pakistan and India.

  • The Salt March of 1930

    There was one salt challenge called the Salt March of 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandi. They were protesting the british Monpoly on Salt.