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India's History

By Madge
  • Britain took control of India

  • Period: to

    Timeline of India

  • Assumption of India

    Queen Victoria took the title as Empress of India.
  • East India Company

  • Famine

    The Indian people experienced famine because of a bad harvest.
  • India's independence

    Politicians such as Gandhi and Nehru started nonviolent resistance against the Britains and that led to independence. Nehru became Prime Minister.
  • Gandhi was killed

    Mahatma Gandhi was shot by an unknown person.
  • India and Britain.

    Inidian became a part of Britain.
  • Border war with China

  • Second war with Pakistan

  • New prime minister

    Nehru's daugther, Indira Gandhi, became prime minister.
  • Another prime minister

    Moraji Desai was elected for prime minister. He was only prime mininster for two years, and then Indira came back.
  • Indira Gandhi's death

    Indira Gandhi was killed by her lifeguards.
  • Rajiv Gandhi

    Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister after his mother Indira, but only for five years.
  • A modern India

    India became a part of the globelized world.
  • Another murder of a prime minister

    Rajiv was murdered during an election.
  • Fast growing economy in India