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Details 1707  Aurangzeb, last great Mogul Emperor, dies; new power installed in Delhi only titular. Mahratta powers terrorize North and Central India. Imperial governors of Bengal and Southern India create, in effect, independent kingdoms. *India  
Details 1746  A Frenchman, Dupleix, ousts the Nawab of Madras, and important British port in India (in the Carnatic). *France
*India  
Details 1748  Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gives Madras back to the British. *India
*France  
Details 1749  French candidate for Nawab of Madras succeeds after Palace revolution, giving Madras back to the French. *India
*France  
Details 1751  British forces led by Robert Clive defeat the French puppet at Arcot and Britain retrieves the Carnatic (Madras). *India
*France  
Details 1754  Dupleix recalled to France in humiliation; Robert Clive returns to England in triumph. First Royal troops not belonging to the East India Company dispatched to India. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1757  The Nawab of Bengal tries to expell the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy; the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive, who then sets up a puppet as Nawab and changes money and land for the services of the East India Company army. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1758  India stops being merely a commercial venture; England begins dominating it politically. The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade. *India
*Colonialism
*East India Company  
Details 1767 - 1799  Anglo-Mysore Wars. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1772  Warren Hastings becomes Governor of Bengal. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1773  The Regulating Act of Lord North regulates the East India Company's powers and institutes a system of dual control of India (company/crown). *India
*East India Company  
Details 1774  Warren Hastings becomes the first Governor General of India. *India  
Details 1780  Mahrattas and Hyder Ali fight against the British until 1804. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1782  The British acquire the Mysore districts in India. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1784  Sir William Jones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia." *India
*Colonialism
*Orientalism  
Details 1784  Pitt's India Act gives the Crown the power to guide Indian politics (as opposed to officers of the East India Company alone). *India
*Colonialism
*East India Company  
Details Jan 15, 1784  India: The Asiatic Society of Bengal is founded with Sir William Jones as president. His address to the committee, "A Dissertation on the Orthography of Asiatick Words in Roman Letters," is published in the Society's Transactions in 1788. *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1785  [MORE] Warren Hastings returns from India to England; Governor-Generals Cornwallis and Wellesley take over. *India  
Details 1786  Warren Hastings, Memoirs Relative to the State of India *India
*Colonialism  
Details 1786 - 1794  Impeachment proceedings against Warren Hastings. *India  
Details 1792  India: Treaty of Seringapatam.. *India  
Details 1813  The East India Company charter is altered to allow for missionary work in the colony. *India
*East India Company  
Details 1829  India: Lord William Cavendish Bentinck officially prohibits the practice of suttee [sati]. *India  
Details July 10, 1833  Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the Government of India. *India  
Details Feb 2, 1835  India: Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Minute on Indian Education." *India  

 

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