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Rebellion of East India Company began as mutiny of Sepoys
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British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj.
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led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule.
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The Calcutta Riots of 1946, also known as the “Great Calcutta Killing,” were four days of massive Hindu-Muslim riots in the capital of Bengal, India, resulting in 5,000 to 10,000 dead, and some 15,000 wounded.
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led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (it later split into Pakistan and Bangladesh)
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In the aftermath of partition, a huge population exchange occurred...14.5 million people crossed the borders...7,226,000 Muslims who came to Pakistan from India...7,295,000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India.
