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Oct 1, 1497
Vasco De Gama Sails for India
1.Began exploring the African coast to reach the Calicut. They went there to direct a sea route to India. Degama and the people that went with them were amazed because of the agriculture they had there. When they returned back to Portugal they took spices with them, and were pleased. -
Decline of the Mughal Empire
1.Aurangzeb drained the empire out of sources. 2 million people died from famine. While waging war a lot of his subjects felt betrayed and didn't feel like he was loyal. 12 years later the empire was just a wealthy figurehead. -
Industrial Revolution in Britain
In 1700 bits of farms covered England's landscape. Landowners that were wealthy started to buy most of the farms that people once worked on. The landowners improved farming. Innovations got so powerful that it formed an agricultural revolution. Each and every landowner tried a method. Either one that they came up with or one that they already knew. -
Establishment of the British East India Company
Set up trading post at Bombay,madras,and Calcutta. At first, Indians mughal dynasty kept the Europeans under control. In 1707 the empire was falling apart. States were breaking away. In 1858 the east were leading power in India. -
British Overcome French and Take Control of India
Robert Clive was leading the Indian Company troops to victory over Indian forces that were allied with the French at the Battle of Plassey. In 1858, the Indian Company was the getting power in India. -
INC
In the 1800's Indians were wanting more modernization and also bigger role in governing themselves because they wanted to do things the right way themselves. Ramm Mohun Roy an Indian, started a campaign he wanted to change the way Indians were doing things. He wanted to change child marriages. The province made was to large and the British divided them into two groups by religion, but it didn't work. They wanted independence. -
Sepoy Rebellion
In 1850, the British controlled a lot of the Indian subcontinent. They were racist to all Indians. The Indians also felt that the British were trying to make them to Christians. For Indians it wasn't easy for because there was rumors rifles were greased with pork fat so in that case the soldiers didn't want to use them and got sent to jail. Also the economy was going bad. The British and Sepoy tried to slaughter each both armies. The India Company took about a year an d a half to regain contro -
British Colonized India
1.In 1858 the British took direct control of India. They wanted it to be part of its empire. Indians were very segregated. A lot of the public areas were marked as Europeans only. The Europeans also forced Indians to grow crops such as cotton, tea, and pepper. The Europeans then put it for sale. The Indians had basically nothing to live on because they had to stop production and for goods they had to pay, and was expensive. -
Creation of the Muslim League
The Muslim league was in competition with the congress party. The leader was Muhammad Ali Jinnah .The Muslim league said it would never accept Indian independence if it meant to rule the Hindu Congress. Also, it was once said that the only thing Muslims and Hindus had in common is that they were both slaves for the British. -
Amritstar Massacre
the Rowlatt Acts, around 10,000 Hindus and Muslims flocked to Amritsar. It is a major city. the British government banned the public meetings and people didn't know. The British commander at Amritsar thought they were defying the ban. He made troops fire on the crowd. shooting in the courtyard took place for ten minutes. 400 Indians died and 1,200 were wounded. Indians then needed there independence. -
Mohandas Gandhi's Leadership of the INC
Mohandas K. Gandhi was to emerge as the leader for the independence movement. He brought his religion with him and it had a part. His ideas were blended with countries all over the world. Indians were following him from a lot. His nickname was Mahatma which meant great soul. -
Gandhi's Travels Stressing Nonviolent Resistance
The British was said to punish the officers that has something to do with the amritstar massacre. The British failed to do so. In 1920, the Congress Party enforced civil disobedience. This was because the British didn't obey the law, and was violent. -
The Salt March
In 1930 Gandhi organized a demonstration. The Indians could ONLY buy salt from the British government. None of the Indians agreed on it. Gandhi got Indians to make salt together by themselves. To do that he walked 240 miles to a sea and they made there salt that way. The Indians didn't stop there, they went to the British and tried to shut there business down. The result was injuries and arrests. -
Government of India Act
In 1935 the British passed the Indian act. It contained limited democratic elections, but it still wasn't 100% independence. -
WWII-Riot Between Hindus and Muslims
Hindus and Muslims broke out several cities. There were many dead. They broke parts of India down for them. By west east north, and south. In 1947 they passed rights in which case they got there independence but some Indians still needed to decide what nation they want. -
Partition
Patrician was the term to separate the Hindu and Muslim nation. -
Indian/Pakistan Independence
British passed an act that granted to nations -
Gandhi's Death
While Gandhi was seeking good treatment for the Muslims. Gandhi got a taste of his own violence. He got shot three times because a Hindu thought he was to protective towards the Muslims. -
Rowlett Acts
Violence was shown to the British rule. In 1999 the British passed the Rowlett Act. This act was said to take protesters without trail to jail for two years. To some Indians it violated Indian rights.
