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India's History

By babe21
  • beginning

    beginning

    India comes under direct rule of the British crown after failed Indian mutiny.
  • Gandhi

    Gandhi

    Gaundhi launches anti-British civil disobedience campaign.
  • Congress

    Congress

    Congress launches "Quit India" movement.
  • End

    End

    End of British rule.
  • war

    war

    War with Pakistan over disputed territory.

  • lose

    India loses brief border war with china

  • death

    Death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

  • sorrow

    Indira Gandhi"s Congress party loses general election.

  • kill

    Indira Gandhi was assinated by bodyguards and following her death her son took over power.

  • greif

    Rajiv Gandhi assassinated by suicide bomber sympathetic to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers.