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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 |
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1746 |
A Frenchman, Dupleix, ousts the Nawab of Madras, and important British port in India (in the Carnatic). |
*France
*India |
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1748 |
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gives Madras back to the British. |
*India
*France |
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1749 |
French candidate for Nawab of Madras succeeds after Palace revolution, giving Madras back
to the French. |
*India
*France |
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1751 |
British forces led by Robert Clive defeat the French puppet at Arcot and Britain retrieves
the Carnatic (Madras). |
*India
*France |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
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*India
*Colonialism
*East India Company |
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1767 - 1799 |
Anglo-Mysore Wars. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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1772 |
Warren Hastings becomes Governor of Bengal. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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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).
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*India
*East India Company |
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1774 |
Warren Hastings becomes the first Governor General of India. |
*India |
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1780 |
Mahrattas and Hyder Ali fight against the British until 1804. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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1782 |
The British acquire the Mysore districts in India. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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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 |
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1784 |
Pitt's India Act gives the Crown the power to guide Indian politics (as opposed to officers of the East India Company alone).
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*India
*Colonialism
*East India Company |
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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 |
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1785 |
Warren Hastings returns from India to England; Governor-Generals Cornwallis and
Wellesley take over. |
*India |
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1786 |
Warren Hastings, Memoirs Relative to the State of India |
*India
*Colonialism |
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1786 - 1794 |
Impeachment proceedings against Warren Hastings. |
*India |
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1792 |
India: Treaty of Seringapatam..
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*India |
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1813 |
The East India Company charter is altered to allow for missionary work in the colony. |
*India
*East India Company |
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1829 |
India: Lord William Cavendish Bentinck officially prohibits the practice of suttee [sati]. |
*India |
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July 10, 1833 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the Government of India. |
*India |
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Feb 2, 1835 |
India: Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Minute on Indian Education." |
*India |