1773

➔ Regulating Act 1773

◆ 1st Governor General of Bengal was appointed
● Warren Hastings
◆ 1st Supreme Court in Calcuta (1774)
● Sir Elijah Impey,the 1st Chief justice
1780

➔ 1st Newspaper in India

◆ Bengal Gazzate by James Augustus Hickey
◆ English Language
1784

➔ Pitt’s India Act

◆ Two bodies were established :
● Court of Directors ( Trade )
● Board of Controllers ( Administration )
1793

➔ Charter Act 1793

◆ Permanent Settlement of Bengal by Lord Cornwallis
● On the recommendations of Sir John Shore
● Zamindari System
● Mahalwari System (Bentick)
● Ryotwari System (Thomas Munro & Charles Reed)
◆ The Santhal rebellion of 1855-56 in Jharkhand
● Due to permanent Settlement of Bengal,on 30th June 1855
● 1st peasant revolt in India
● 4 Murmu brothers- Sidhu, Kanhu, Chand & Bhairav.
1798

➔ Subsiduary Alliance by Lord Wellesly

◆ Nizam of Hydrabad was the 1st to sign
◆ Holkars were the last in 1818
1813

➔ The trade monopoly of EIC was abolished except the trade

with China & trade in tea.
➔ The sovereignty went to The British Crown over Indian
territories held by the EIC.
1815

➔ Atmiya Sabha was founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in

Bengal.
1828

➔ Brahmo Samaj by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in bengal

1829

➔ Abolition of Sati Pratha by William Bentick with the help of

Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
1833

➔ Indian Charter Act 1833/The Saint Helena Act 1833

◆ G.G of India (William Bentick)
➔ Complete Monopoly of EIC was abolished.
1835

➔ English was introduced as an official language in India

◆ By Lord Macaulay( Father of English education in India)
◆ G.G was Lord Bentick
1837

➔ A Federal Court was established in Delhi

1848

➔ Doctrine of Lapse by Lord Dalhousie

◆ Satara(1848)
◆ Jaipur
◆ Sambalpur
◆ Bhagat
◆ Udaipur
◆ Jhansi
◆ Nagpur
◆ Jaitpur
◆ Awadh(1858) annexed from Nawab Wajid Ali Shah
1854

➔ Educational Dispatch /Wood’s Dispatch

◆ Considered as the Magna Carta of English Education in India
1856

➔ Legalization of Widow Remarriage

◆ By Lord Dalhousie with the help of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar
➔ Lord Canning introduced
◆ General Service Enlistment Act
◆ Religious Disabilities Act
➔
1857

➔ “1857 revolt-neither 1st nor national nor a war of

Independence”- RC Majumdar
➔ “It was the 1st war of independence”- VD Sawarkar
➔ 1st Incident - 19th infantry in Berhampur
➔ 29th March - Barrackpore regiment of Mangal Pandey
➔ 10th May - 90 sepoy of 3rd native regiment of meerut marched
towards Delhi
1857
Centre Indian Leader British Leader
Delhi Bahadur Shah II John Nicholson
Gen.Bhakht Khan

Kanpur Nana Sahib Gen.Campbell

Tantiya Tope

Luckhnow Hazrat Mahal Gen.Campbell

Bareilly Khan Bahadur Khan Gen.Campbell

Jhansi Rani Laxmibai Hugh Rose

Aurah/Bihar Kunwar Singh William Taylor

Amar Singh
1858

➔ Indian Council Act 1858/Act of Good Governance

◆ The rule of British Monarch started
◆ Post of Viceroy was added
● Lord Canning
◆ Post of Secretary of State(SOS) was introduced
● Earl Stalney
1861

➔ Indian Council Act,1861

◆ Under Lord Canning
◆ 3 Indians were added into the Legislative Council & they were
● Raja of Banaras
● Maharja of Patiala
● Sir Dinker Rao
◆ Under Indian High Court Act 1861, 3 High courts were established in 1862
● Calcutta
● Bombay
● Madras
1866

➔ Brahmo Samaj of India was established by KESHAV

CHANDRA SEN
◆ In 1858 he was made an Acharya in Brahmo Samaj
➔ Brahmo Samaj was renamed as Adi Brahmo Samaj
◆ Headed by Debendranath Tagore ,after Raja Ram Mohan Roy
● He was the founder of Tattvabodhini Sabha(1839)
1873

➔ Satya Shodhak Samaj founded by Jyotibha phule in Pune

◆ With his wife Savitribai Phule,he opened a girls school at Poona.
◆ He was also awarded with the title of Mahatma
1875

➔ Arya Samaj was founded by Dayanand Saraswati in Bombay

& then in Lahore
◆ His real name is Mulshankar
◆ “Go Back to Vedas”
◆ He also wrote Satyarth Prakash
1878

➔ The G.G was Lord Lytton

◆ Vernacular Press Act
◆ Arms Act
1882

➔ Hunter Commission
◆ Under William Hunter
◆ For Primary Education
1884

➔ Ilbert Bill was passed

◆ Also called as Criminal Procedure Amendment Code Bill
◆ The draft was prepared by Bihari Lal Gupta
1885

➔ INC was formed by merging

◆ Indian National Conference of Surendranath Bannerji & Anand Mohan Bose
◆ Indian National Union of A.O Hume
◆ Attended by 72 delegates
➔ 1st session of INC
◆ Held at Gokul Das Tejpal Hall,Bombay
◆ Presided by W.C Bannerji
➔ The G.G was Lord Dufferin
1886

➔ 2nd session of INC

◆ Held in Calcutta
◆ Presided by Dada Bhai Noroji
1887

➔ 3rd session of INC

◆ Held in Madras
◆ Presided by Badrudin Tayabji
● The 1st Muslim President of INC
1888

➔ 4th session of INC

◆ Held in Allahabad
◆ Presided by George Yule
● The 1st non Indian Christian President of INC
1896

➔ Vande Matram was sung for the 1st time officially in congress
session of Calcutta
◆ Presided by Rahimtulla M.Sayani
1897

➔ Ramakrishna Mission was founded

◆ By Swami Vivekanand by Ajit Singh
● Real name wasNarendra Dutt
● Chicago Parliament of Religion,1893
◆ In Calcutta
◆
1905

➔ Swadeshi Movement
◆ 7th August
◆ Suggested by Krishna Kumar Mitra
◆ The National Council of Education was established
➔ Partition of Bengal
◆ Based upon 1901 census
◆ 16th Oct
◆ By G.G Lord Curzon
◆ W.B+Bihar+Odisha & E.B+Assam
➔ Servants of Indian Society by Gopal Krishna Gokhle
1906

➔ INC session of Calcutta

◆ Presided by Dada Bhai Noroji
◆ Swaraj was demanded, officially
➔ Muslim League
◆ Birth at Dhaka on 1st Oct
◆ Presided by Agha Khan,Mohsin-ul-Mulk,Salimullah Khan
◆ Blessed by G.G Minto II
1907

➔ INC session of Surat

◆ On 26th Dec
◆ Presided by Rash Behari Ghosh
◆ Surat Split happened
● Moderates & Extremist were separated
● Tilak was sent to the Mandley Jail,Burma for 6 years
➔ 1st session of Muslim League
◆ Held in Karachi
◆ Presided by Adamji Peer Bhai
1909

➔ Indian Council Act 1909/Morley-Minto Reforms

◆ Separate Electorate for Muslims for the 1st time
◆ 1st time an Indian was added in the Executive Council
● He was Satyendra Prasad Sinha
1911

➔ Partition of Bengal was annulled

➔ The capital of India was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi
➔ Social Service League was founded by N.M Joshi
1913

➔ Gadar Party
◆ Founded by Lala Hardyal, Sohan Singh Bhakhna
◆ HQ in San Fransisco
◆ Gadar weekly Newspaper in English,Punjabi,Urdu & Marathi were published
1914

➔ 1st World War broke out

➔ Kamagata Maru incident
◆ Baba Gurdit Singh
◆ 370 passengers
◆ Voyage towards Canada
◆ Back to Calcutta,Budge Budge Port
1915

➔ Gandhi ji came back from South Africa

1916

➔ INC session of Lucknow

◆ Presided by A.C Majumdar
◆ Lucknow Pact was signed b/w INC & Muslim League
◆ Separate Electorates for Muslims was announced
◆ Moderates & Extremist were reunited
➔ Home Rule League was started
◆ Annie Besant in Madras(Commonwealth & New India)
◆ Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Pune(Maratha & Kesari)
➔ Gopal Krishna Gokhale advised Gandhi ji to travel around
India
1917

➔ INC session of Calcutta

◆ Presided by Annie Besant
● 1st woman president of INC
➔ Champaran Satyagrah
◆ In april
◆ 1st Satyagrah by Gandhiji in India,persuaded by Raj Kumar Shukla
◆ 1st Civil Disobedience movement
◆ Related to Neel peasants
● Neel Darpan by Deen Bandhu Mitra
➔ On 17th June Sabarmati Ashram was completed
1918

➔ Ahmedabad Mill worker strike

◆ The 1st hunger strike by Gandhiji
➔ Kheda Satyagrah
◆ 1st Non Cooperation Movement
➔ End of the 1st world war
1919

➔ Govt. of India Act 1919/Montague Chelmsford Reforms

◆ Rowlatt Act
◆ Dyarchy in provinces
◆ Separate electorate for Christians,sikhs,women etc
➔ All India Khilafat Committee
◆ By Mohommad Ali & Shaukat Ali
➔ Jalayawala Bagh Masacre on 13th April
◆ Rabinder Nath Tagore returned his knighthood title
◆ Udam Singh killed Gen O’Dawyer in 1940 in London
1920

➔ INC special session in Calcutta

◆ Presided by Lala Lajpat RAi
◆ To discuss Non Cooperation Movement
➔ INC session of Nagpur
◆ Presided by C.Raghavacharya
◆ Non Cooperation Movement was launched
➔ Home Rule League elected Gandhi ji as its President
➔ All India Trade Union Congress by N.M Joshi in Bombay
1921

➔ A racial enquiry committee was appointed under the

chairmanship of Tej Bahadur Sapru
➔ Demand of Purna Swaraj in Ahmedabad session, raised by
Hasrat Mohani.
1922

➔ Chauri Chaura incident

◆ 22 policemen were killed
◆ Non Cooperation was haulted
1923

➔ Swaraj Party
◆ Formed by C.R Das,Motilal Nehru & Ajmal Khan
◆ They were the pro-changers
◆ On 1st Jan
1924

➔ INC session of Belgaum,Karnataka

◆ Presided by Gandhi ji
◆ The only session Presided by him
1925

➔ INC session of Kanpur

◆ Presided by Sarojani Naidu
◆ The 1st Indian woman President of INC
➔ Kakori train incident
◆ On 9th August
◆ By Ram Prasad Bismil under HSRA
➔ CPI was founded by M.N Roy on 26th Dec
1927

➔ Simon Commission was formed

◆ To look into the working of the Constitution
◆ 7 member committee-Sir John Simon,Clement Attlee,Harry Leuson,Edward
Cadogen,Vernon Hartshort,George Lene Fox,Donald Haward
➔ INC session of Madras
◆ Presided by M.A Ansari
◆ Resolution to boycott Simon Commission
1928

➔ Simon commission landed in India

◆ 1st in Bombay
◆ 2nd in Lahore
● Lathi charge
● Death of Lala Lajpat Rai
● Sounders was killed by Bhagat Singh in Lahore
➔ Bardoli Satyagrah,Gujarat
◆ Vallabhai Patel got the title of Sardar from a peasant woman
1929

➔ INC session of Lahore

◆ Presided by Jawaharlal Nehru
◆ He declared 26th Jan 1930 as a Purna Swaraj Day
➔ Bhagat Singh and BK Dutt dropped bombs in the assembly on April 8.
1930

➔ Civil Disobedience Movement

◆ Dandi March
● Started from Sabarmati to Dandi
● Lead by Sarojini Naedu
● Breaking the salt law,1882
● Rani Guidinliu was captivated and remained in jail for 17 years till
independence
➔ 1st session of Round table conference
1931

➔ Karachi session of INC

◆ Presided by Vallabhai Patel
◆ Gandhi Irwin Pact/Delhi Pact
● To make him attend the 2nd Round table conference(Sarojini Naidu
represented INC)
● To release the political prisoners as a part of 11 points by Gandhi ji
◆ Two resolutions were passed
● Fundamental rights
● National economic programme
➔ On 23rd March Bhagat Singh,Rajguru& Sukhdev were executed
1932

➔ 3rd Round table conference

◆ Communal Award was announced for BR Ambedkar
◆ Gandhi Ambedkar Pact/Poona Pact was signed
➔ Revival of Civil Disobedience movement
➔ All India Anti-Untouchability organisation/Harijan Sewak
Sangh was founded by Gandhi ji
1933

➔ The name PAKSTAN was proposed

◆ By Chaudhary Rehmat Ali, a student from Cambridge University
1934

➔ Civil Disobedience movement was called off for final

1935

➔ GOI 1935
◆ All India Federation
◆ Emergency Provisions
◆ Dyarchy at centre was established
◆ Provincial autonomy was provided
◆ RBI was established
1938

➔ Haripura session of INC

◆ Presided by S.C Bose
◆ 1st planning committee of congress
1939

➔ Tripura session of INC

◆ Presided by S.C Bose
◆ Then by Rajendra Prasad
➔ S.C Bose resigned and started his own party Forward Block
➔ 2nd world war broke out
1940

➔ Ramgarh session of INC

◆ Presided by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
◆ Till 1946,longest serving
➔ Gandhi ji started Individual Satyagrah
◆ Vinoba Bhave was the 1st Individual Satyagrahi
➔ August Offer was offered & was rejected
1942

➔ Quit India Movement/August Kranti

◆ At Gowalia Tank Maidan,Maharashtra on 8th August
◆ Do or Die slogan by Gandhi ji
➔ Cripps mission was sent to India by Winston Churchill
1943

➔ INA
◆ Founded by Captain Mohan Singh & Rash Bihari Ghosh with the help of Japan
◆ HQ in Singapore
◆ S.C Bose took the command of INA
◆ Open trials of INA in 1946
● Convicts were P.K Sehgal, G.S Dhillon & Shah Nawaz
● Prosecuted by Advocates Bulla Bai Desai(Chief Lawer),Pdt Nehru,Asif
Ali,KN Katju & T.B Sapru
◆ The Nursing unit was named as Chand Bibi
1945

➔ Wavell Plan failed( self govt for India)

➔ Shimla conference collapsed due to Jinnah’s demand for veto
➔ End of world war II
➔ On 18th Aug S.C Bose died
1946

➔ Cabinet Mission
◆ It was rejected
◆ Headed by Patheric Lawrence & other members were Crips & A.V Alexander
◆ Cabinet committee was set up on 9th Dec
➔ RIN(Royal Indian Navy) Mutuny,18th Feb
◆ BC Dutt,name associated
◆ At INS Talwar
◆ In support of Quit India movement & INA trial
1947

➔ Mountbatten Partition Plan/Indian Independence Act 1947

◆ 3rd June 1947,also called as Balkan plan/Dicky bird plan
◆ Original decision was of June 1948
◆ India was partitioned by Sir Cyril Radcliff
◆ Partition Council was Chaired by Lord Mountbatten & others were
● V.B Patel,Dr. Rajendra Prasad,Liaqat Ali Khan & Abdur Nishtar
➔ Lord Mountbatten was the 1st G.G of Independent India
➔ C.Rajagopalachari was the 1st & the last Indian G.G of India
INDIA GOT INDEPENDENCE