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Beginning of Bhakti cult in Tamil Nadu
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Christianity was introduced to India by the Europeans.
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Queen Elizabeth I, of the United Kingdom, granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
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Shah Jahan, the ruler of the Mughal Empire, built the Taj Mahal.
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The Strict Muslim, Aurangzeb, ruled India and tried to force Hindus to convert to Islam.
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The British stepped into India in 18th century as traders and ruled India almost between 1858 and 1947. Muslims had been ruling India for almost thousand years but Britain had been able to gain control over them. After Britain took control of India they made it British colony.
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Gandhi begins a "fast unto death" to protest the British government's treatment of India's lowest caste "untouchables" whom Gandhi calls Harijans -- "God's children." Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience has brought rioting and has landed him in prison, but he persists in his demands for social reform, he urges a new boycott of British goods, and after six days of fasting obtains a pact that improves the status of the "untouchables" (Dalits)
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A new Indian Constitution was ratified and Jawaharlal Nehru became the Indian first prime minister.
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At least 80 people were killed in a series of attacks apparently aimed at Western tourists in Bombay.
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Queen Elizabeth I, of the United Kingdom, granted a charter to the East India Company established trading posts in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras
