The Tryst with Destiny

Tryst With Destiny: The Events

 

The Early Europeans

The East India Company
1498 Vasco-da-gama arrives in India 1799 British defeat  Tippu Sultan
1600 East India Company is formed 1805 Anglo-Maratha War
1748 Anglo-French War in India 1846 Anglo-Sikh War- Sikhs Defeated
1757 Battle of Plassey 1857 First Indian War of Independence

 

Indian National Congress
1885 Indian National Congress is formed by Allen Octavian Hume 1930 The Dandi Salt March, The Simon Commission, First Round Table Conference
1915 Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant 1931 Second Round Table Conference, Gandhi-Irvin Pact
1919 Khilafat Movement, Jalianwala Bagh Massacre, The Rowlat Act 1937 Provincial Autonomy Begins with Congress winning power in many states. WWII breaks out and  political deadlock in India
1921 Rise of Gandhi and his Civil Disobedience Movement 1942 The Quit India Movement, Rise of Subhas Chandra Bose
1922 Gandhi Suspends movement after the Chauri-Chura violence 1946 INA men tried. Muslim League Adamant about Pakistan
1928 Murder of Lala Lajpat Rai and subsequent revolutionary activities 1947 India is Partitioned. British Leave India - Freedom at Midnight.


See also:
 A Timeline of India
Timeline of Gandhi's Life
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