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British east india co. charter India
Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to a group of 25 adventurers, giving them a monopoly on trade between England and the countries in the East Indies. -
The Great Rebellion of 1857
First War of Independence -
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India independent
indians ecspected independents after the war -
The Salt March
which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India. During the march, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from his religious retreat near Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea coast, a distance of some 240 miles. -
Indian National Congress
was the largest and most prominent Indian public organization, and central and defining influence of the Indian Independence Movement.
