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1857-1885

1857

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1858

1859-62

1863-64

1870

1875

1876

1877

1878

1883

1884

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CHRONOLOGY (1857-1950)

Sepoy Mutiny

Mangal Pandey executed.

Mutiny of sepoy troops and wide-

spread rebellion in northern India.

British Government takes over the

East India Company's Indian em-

pire.

East India Company’s rule replaced

by that of Viceroy appointed by the

British crown.

Calcutta becomes capital of British

India.

Indigo Revolt

Wahabi Revolt

Calcutta Port trust formed.

Arya Samaj founded by Swami

Dayananda Saraswati.

Surendra Nath launches ‘Indian As-

sociation’

Corporation of 72 commissioners

(48 elected on communal basis) es-

tablished to Regulate Calcutta.

Queen Victoria proclaimed empress

of India.

Vernacular Press Act.

Kesari and Maharatta newspapers

established.

I.C.S. (Indian Civil Service) estab-

lished initially only by nominations

for loyalists.

Keshub Chunder sen proclaims the

new dispensation.

Sir C.P. Ilbert moved the criminal

jurisdiction.

Madras Mahajan Sabha.

Construction of Kidderprore docks.

Indian National Congress (The

Congress Party) is organised in

Bombay.

Bombay Presidency Association.

Rise of the Indian independence

movement.

I.C.S. Broad based open examina-

tion, age limit raised to 23.

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

begins twenty year’s work as law-

yer in South Africa.

Death of Bankim Chandra Chatter-

jee (b 1838).

Swami Vivekananda (1862-1902)

received triumphant welcome on

return

India;

founded

Ramakrishna

mission

Calcutta Municipal Act of 1899

comes into force.

Death of Justice, M.G. Ranade

(b 1842).

1905

Partition of Bengal arouses nation-

alist agitation, in which Surendranath

Banerjee

(

1848

1926

Bal Gan-

gadhar Tilak

(

1856

1920

Rabin-

dranath Tagore

(

1861

1941

and

Aurobindo Ghosh

(

1872

1907

1905

Historic Public meeting to protest

partition of Bengal.

1906

Muslim League founded.

1907

Indian National Congress split by

quarrel between Moderates and Ex-

tremists at Surat.

1909

Morley-Minto

reforms

(Indian

Councils Act) increased power of

provincial legislative councils.

1910

Hindu Mahasabha formed.

1911

Partition of Bengal annulled. Trans-

fer of the Indian capital from Cal-

cutta to Delhi announced.

1912

Capital of British India moved from

Calcutta to Delhi.

1913

Rabindranath Tagore awarded Nobel

prize for his

Gitanjali.

1914-18

World war I, Indian leaders sup-

ported the British.

1915

Death of G.K. Gokhale (b. 1866)

1916

Moderate, extremist and Muslim

league leaders agree on demand for

a national legislative assembly to be

elected on a communal basis.

Congress league pact; foundation of

Indian Home Rule League at

Belgaum.

Justice party founded at Madras

National Liberation Federation at

Bombay.

British carry out constitutional re-

forms but cannot stop the tide of

nationalism; Mohandas K. Gandhi,

leader of Indian National Movement,

begins to support self-rule and pas-

sive resistance.

Montagu-Chelmsford reforms pro-

vide for legislative assembly to be-

gin in 1921. Amritsar massacre.

1919-1948

Gandhian era.

1920

Congress democratic party founded

by B.G. Tilak

Death of

Tilak.

Gandhi starts first Nationwide Civil

Disobedience

Movement

(sus-

pended in

1922

after outbreaks of

violence).

Formation Akali Dal.

1922

Swaraj party led by Motilal Nehru.

1929

The Lahore Session of Congress

passed

“Purna Swaraj”

resolution.

1917

1918

1919

1930

1931

1935

1936

1939

1940

1941

1942

1945

1946

1945-47

1947

1948

1949

1950

Round Table Conference at Lon-

don.

Round Table Conference.

Gandhi & Irwin pact; Socialist party

of J.P. Narayan.

Government of India act grants pro-

vincial self-government.

Britain gives India a new constitu-

tion providing for a council of states

and an Assembly.

All India Kissan Sabha formed.

Independent Labour party founded

by B.R. Ambedkar.

Forward Block, founded by S.C.

Bose at Calcutta.

Muslim League, under President Jin-

nah, demands creation of Pakistan.

S. C. Bose escapes to join axis

powers.

Britain promises India full domin-

ion status after war and an interim

Government during war. Congress

party demands immediate independ-

ence and begins Civil Disobedience.

S.C. federation formed by B. R. Am-

bedkar at Nagpur; Cripps Mission

to India.

Quit India resolution passed by

AICC.

Bose took over as the Commander-

in-Chief of Indian National army at

Singapore.

I.N.A. trials.

Naval Mutiny.

Cabinet Mission’s arrival.

Amid communal rioting and threats

of mutiny, the British Labor Gov-

ernment prepares to grant India com-

plete self-government.

British declared their intention to

Quit India (20-2-1947), appointed

Lord Mountbatten as the Viceroy of

India; British Parliament passed*

“The Indian Independence Bill” (15-

7-1947)

Accession of Junagadh and Kashmir.

Death of S.C.Bose. (16-8-1948).

Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi.

Death of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (b

1876)

The Draft Constitution prepared by

the constituent Assembly.

Accession of Hyderabad.

Jan, 26 Constitution of India came

into force; India proclaims itself a

sovereign Republic.