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Period: 130 BCE to 1453
Silk Route Trade
The Silk Road was ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east. China also received Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the Silk Road. The Silk Road primarily refers to the terrestrial routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with East Africa, West Asia and Southern Europe -
Period: 1271 to 1295
Marco Polo Explore Asia !
He spent several months of his imprisonment dictating a detailed account of his travels to a fellow inmate, Rustichello da Pisa, who incorporated tales of his own as well as other collected anecdotes and current affairs from China.
The book soon spread throughout Europe in manuscript form, and became known as The Travels of Marco Polo. It depicts the his journeys throughout Asia, giving Europeans their first comprehensive look into the inner workings of India.
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Period: 1526 to
Mughal Empire
Its impact correlates with the India Civil Service...
During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British, Bahadur issued a firman supporting the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was tried by the British East India Company for treason and exiled to Rangoon.The last remnants of the empire--> taken over by the British, Parliament passed the Government of India Act 1858 to formally to displace the rights of the East India Company and assume direct control of India in the form of the new British Raj -
East India Company is founded !
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Bombay!
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Seven Years War
The Seven Years War left Britain the leading power in India. For better and worse, Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years War gave it Canada and India as colonies. The British left their social, political, legal and linguistic marks on both. Like the U.S., both are 21st century powerhouses. It appears being a former British colony has a long-term upside. Cameron certainly hopes 21st century Indians draw that conclusion. -
Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757, under the leadership of Robert Clive. The battle consolidated the Company's presence in Bengal, which later expanded to cover much of India over the next hundred years. BRITISH WON! -
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Warren Hastings (1st Governor-General)
Warren Hastings was an English statesman and the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor General of India.
Hastings brought the Dual Government system to an end by enforcing the Regulating Act of 1773. Hastings was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1801. -
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Anglo-French War
The Anglo-French War was a military conflict fought between France and Great Britain with their respective allies between 1778 and 1783. In 1778, France signed a treaty of friendship with the United States. Great Britain was then at war with France, and in 1779 it was also at war with Spain.
Result: Tobago, Senegal and territories in India acquired by France -
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Lord Charles Cornwallis (Indian Governor-General)
Lord Cornwallis enacted the Cornwallis code, which was partly responsible for implementing a number of significant land taxation reforms aka Permanent Settlement of Bengal. It was an agreement between the EIC and the then Bengali landlords to fix revenues to be raised from land. He also introduced Civil Services in our country and established lower courts and appellate courts. From 1789 to 1792, he led the British and Company forces in the Third Anglo-Mysore War (British victory) -
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta in English, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal and is located in eastern India on the east bank of the River Hooghly. The city was a colonial city developed by the British East India Company and then by the BritishEmpire. -
Mutiny in Vellore
The Vellore mutiny on 10 July 1806 was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century. The revolt, which took place in the South Indian city of Vellore lasted one full day, during which mutineers seized the Vellore Fort and killed or wounded 200 British troops. The mutiny was subdued by cavalry and artillery from Arcot. -
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Opium Wars
(aka Anglo-Chinese War) The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty. Opium Wars Overview -
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Indian Civil Service
(aka Imperial Civil Service) It was the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947
Its members ruled more than 300 million people in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (then comprising British Raj). They were ultimately responsible for overseeing all government activity in the 250 districts that comprised British India. -
Mahatma Gandhi is Born!
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. -
Queen Victoria becomes the Empress of India
Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, had Queen Victoria proclaimed as Empress of India. India was already under crown control after 1858, but this title was a gesture to link the monarchy with the empire further and bind India to Britain.The Royal Titles Bill was brought before Parliament in 1876. It faced opposition from Liberals who feared that the title was synonymous with absolutism. Celebrations were held in Delhi, in what is known as the Delhi Durbar on this day. -
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Zulu War
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who was in South Africa at the time, felt that the Indians in South Africa would do best for themselves to serve the British Empire as a reserve force in the Army against the Zulu uprising. Gandhi actively encouraged the British to recruit Indians. He argued that Indians should support the war efforts in order to legitimize their claims to full citizenship. -
Indian National Congress is Created!
The Indian National Congress is a broadly based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa -
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The Great War (World War I)
The Lucknow pact was presented to the British in 1916 and was demanding self-rule for India, but the British had their minds on WWI. Then...Britain promises India self-rule if they help fight in the war
Gandhi supports war effort in hopes of achieving self-rule for India
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Mahatma Gandhi and Indian Independence
This non-violent campaign was based on civil disobedience and peaceful protest in line with Gandhi's philosophy of “Satyagraha” or “insistence on truth”. Gandhi believed that Indians will never get a fair equal treatment under British rulers, and he shifted his attention to Swaraj or self rule and political independence for India. In 1921, he was the leader of the Indian National Congress
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Jallianwala Bagh or Amritsar Massacre
Troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians. The Rowlatt Act, 1919 had been implemented, but the civilians were unaware. The civilians had assembled for a festival known as Baisakhi. Baisakhi marks the Sikh new year. It is also stated that it marks peaceful protest to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders. (379 people were killed, and about 1,200 more were wounded) -
Gandhi Boycotts British Textiles
From the elaborate Gujarati attire, he decided on a simple dhoti and shawl. Gandhi’s manner of dress and commitment to hand spinning were essential elements of his philosophy and politics. He chose the traditional loincloth as a rejection of Western culture and a symbolic identification with the poor of India. His personal choice became a powerful political gesture as he urged his more privileged followers to copy his example and discard—or even burn—their European-style clothing -
Salt March
This is Gandhi's defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British (MONOPOLY). He declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of satyagraha, or "mass civil disobedience" -
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 in the compound of Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion. His assassin was Nathuram Vinayak Godse, advocate of Indian nationalism, a member of the political party the Hindu Mahasabha, and a past member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which he left in 1940 to form an armed organization.
