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Cities and their Founders/Designers

City Founder/Designer

Bhopal Raja Bhoj

Chandigarh Le Corbusier

New Delhi Edward Lutyens

Jaipur Sawai Jai Singh (Founder);

Vidyadhar Bhattacharya (Designer)

Fatehpur Sikri Akbar

Agra Badal Singh

Ahmedabad Sultan Ahmed Shah

Faridabad Shaikh Farid

Bhavnagar Bhavsinhji Gohil

Jodhpur Rao Jodha

Bikaner Rao Bika

Ferozepur Ferozeshah Tughlaq

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First Events in India

Event Year

Newspaper 29 Jan 1781 (Hicky Calcutta

Gazette)

First Telegraph line 1851 (Calcutta & Diamond

Harbour)

Railways started 16 April 1853

First air mail in India & World Bumraulli to Allahabad (6 1911

miles)

Broadcasting started in India 1927

1st electric train 23 Feb 1925

All India Radio established 1936

Television started 1959

First Atomic Power Station commissioned at Tarapur 1969

First nuclear test carried out 18 May 1974

India’s first satellite, Aryabhata launched 19 April 1975

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Event Year

Colour Television started 1982

1st metro trains in India 1984 (Kolkata)

Internet came to India 15 August 1995 (provided BSNL)

India’s first mission to Moon (Chandrayaan-1) launched 22 October 2008

India’s first mission to Mars (Mangalyaan) launched 05 November 2013

India’s first newsprint factory was set up at Nepanagar 1947

(MP) in

India’s first cement factory was set up in Chennai in 1904

India’s first steel factory was set up in Jamshedpur in 1907

India’s first cotton mill was set up in Bombay in 1854

Ancient Texts and Authors

Biographies of Kings

Book Author Language

Harsha Charita Bana Bhatt Sanskrit

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Book Author Language

Akbar-Nama Abul Fazl Persian

Prithviraj Raso Chand Bardai Brajbhasha

Humayun Namah Gulbadan Begum Persian

Shah Namah Firdausi Persian

Other Books

Book Author Language

Geet Govinda Jaya Deva Sanskrit

Abhigyan Shakuntalam Kalidasa Sanskrit

Kumar Sambhava Kalidasa Sanskrit

Meghdoot Kalidasa Sanskrit

Raghuvansha Kalidasa Sanskrit

Mudra Rakshasa Vishakha Datta Sanskrit

Panchatantra Vishnu Sharma Sanskrit

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Book Author Language

Arthashastra Kautilya Sanskrit

Padmavat Malik Mohd Jayasi Awadhi

Kamasutra Vatsyayana Sanskrit

British Governor Generals/Viceroys in India

GOVERNOR
PERIOD POINTS TO REMEMBER
GENERAL/VICEROY

Warren Hastings 1774 – First Governor General in India. (He was the appointed as the

1785 General of Fort William, but he exercised control over East Ind

Company officials all over India.)

Lord Cornwallis 1786 –

1793

Lord Wellesley 1798 –

1825

Lord William Bentick 1828 – First to be designated as the Governor General of India in 1828

1835 outlawed the practice of Sati and also introduced English educ

India.

Lord Dalhousie 1848 – He introduced the infamous ‘Doctrine of Lapse’. He also broug
1856 Railways and Telegraph to India. He is also known as the mak
modern India.

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Lord Canning 1856 – He was the Governor General during the mutiny of 1857. He w

1862 appointed the first Viceroy after the war.

Lord Mayo 1869 – He was the Viceroy of India, who was killed a convict in the An

1872 Islands. The first census of India was conducted which did not

include some territories in India.

Lord Lytton 1876 –

1880

Lord Rippon 1880 – He introduced the dual system of governance. The first comple
1884 synchronous census of British Territories in India was conduct

1881 during his period. He is hailed as the Father of Local Self

Government in India.

Lord Dufferin 1884 – The Indian National Congress was formed during his period.
1888

Lord Curzon 1899 – Partition of Bengal and launch of Swadeshi Movement.

1905

Lord Hardinge 1910 – The Capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi during

1916 tenure in 1911. George V, the King of England visited India to a

Delhi durbar in 1911.

Lord Chelmsford 1916 – The Jalianwala Bagh tragedy of 1919 occurred during his perio
1921 Montague Chelmsford reforms, Rowlatt Act, Khilafat moveme
other events associated with his period.

Lord Reading 1921 – Chauri Chaura incident occurred during his period. Mahatma
1926 was imprisoned for the first time in India.

Lord Irwin 1926 – His period is associated with First Round Table Conference, Si
1931 Commission, Gandhi Irwin pact and the famous Dandi March

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Lord Willingdon 1931 – Second and Third Round Table Conferences were held during

1936 period and the Poona Pact between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr.
Ambedkar was signed during his period.

Lord Linlithgow 1936 – Cripps Mission visited India and the Quit India resolution was
1943 during his tenure.

Lord Wavell 1943 – Shimla conference and Cabinet mission are associated with his

1947

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