Vasco da gama of Portugal reached the port of Calicut on the southwestern coast of India
queen ann granted a royal charter to some merchants
in the 1600 the decline of india started
the British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal
The EIC was on a mission to expand faster and more efficiently, which led to the company receiving freedom to act as a free entity
It also allowed the EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey
The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the EIC by the British crown.
In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred full governing authority from the EIC to the British government
Queen Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India
One such challenge was the Salt March in 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil disobedience led by Gandhi