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The English East India Company began as a small trading body in 1600 and grew by royal charters, Mughal farmans and a few fortified towns into the ruling power of India. The English Company: key stages Ye...
/modern-indian-history/english-east-india-company...route after Vasco da Gama reached Calicut in 1498 , and the Portuguese, Dutch, English, French and Danes competed for the Indian Ocean trade. Why Europeans came Trade in spices, cotton cloth, indigo and saltpetre was very profitable. The Ottoman capture of Constantinople (1453)...
/modern-indian-history/european-trading-companies...nglo-French rivalry in India, fought in the three Carnatic Wars, ended with the English victory at Wandiwash (1760) and the Treaty of Paris (1763). Background The wars were linked to European wars (War of Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War), and to succession disputes in Hy...
/modern-indian-history/carnatic-wars...in the court (Mir Jafar, Rai Durlabh, Jagat Seth). Causes of conflict with the English: The Company fortified Calcutta without his permission. Misuse of the dastak (free-pass trade permits) that cost the Nawab revenue. The English gave shelter to Krishna Das , who had fled with...
/modern-indian-history/plassey-1757British education policy moved from supporting Oriental learning to promoting English-medium education, and created a new educated Indian class that later led the freedom struggle. Early steps 1781: Warren Hastings founded the Calcutta Madrasa . 1784: Asiatic Society (William J...
/modern-indian-history/education-policyAfter Plassey the English removed Nawabs who did not obey, and at Buxar (22 October 1764) they defeated three powers together and gained the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa (1765). Mir Jafar and Mir Qasim Mir Jafar...
/modern-indian-history/buxar-1764...revenue. Kalhana's Rajatarangini (translation) Sir Aurel Stein (1900) Standard English translation with notes. Modern writing Prem Nath Bazaz , The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir ; G.M.D. Sufi , Kashir ; Mohibbul Hasan , Kashmir under the Sultans ; P.N.K. Bamzai , Cu...
/history-of-jandk/sources...e Darbar, and the territories between the Beas and the Sutlej were ceded to the English. The treaty angered Lal Singh , Gulab Singh's rival and the Prime Minister of Lahore . To deprive Gulab of his state , Lal Singh showed that the Durbar could not pay the indemnity and ceded th...
/history-of-jandk/treaty-of-amritsar..."Gagging Act" . It was aimed at Indian-language papers only, and did not touch English papers (Amrita Bazar Patrika turned itself into an English paper overnight to escape it).
/modern-indian-history/press-in-british-india...(1772 to 1833) Born in Radhanagar (Bengal) . He knew Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English and several other languages. Atmiya Sabha (1815) to discuss religion and social evils. He published Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin (Persian, a gift to monotheists) and The Precepts of Jesus (1820). Brah...
/modern-indian-history/raja-ram-mohan-roy-brahmo-samaj...adras Badruddin Tyabji First Muslim president. 1888 Allahabad George Yule First English president. 1889 Bombay Sir William Wedderburn 1890 Calcutta Pherozeshah Mehta Kadambini Ganguly first woman to address. 1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla Sayani "Vande Mataram" was first sung (by Tagor...
/modern-indian-history/foundation-of-indian-national-congress...ssembly may adopt official languages by law. Business is done in them, Hindi or English ; the English text of Bills and Acts is authoritative ( Sections 47 and 48 ). Legislative Council : abolished from the appointed day ( Section 57 ). It had 36 members, and Bills pending in it...
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