Imperialism in India

Vasco de Gama sails for India

Oct 15, 1419

Vasco De Gama Found spices , rare silks , and precious gems so they decided to sail to India to trade over there.

establishment of the British east india company

Oct 15, 1600

The British started setting up trade post in India. They over grew because India was collapsing.The british were so powerful they even had there own army.

Decline of the Mughal empire

Oct 15, 1661

Aurangzeb has wasted the empires supplies in the war so becuase of lack of food a femine had started.The empire rose and fell but before Aunrangzeb died he handed the British the port of Bombay.

British overcome French and take control of India

Oct 15, 1668

Bombay was formally handed over to the British company and soon turned into a strong commercial military base comprising calvary , artillery , and infantry elements.

Industrial revolution in Britain

Oct 18, 1700

Wealthy landowners began buying lands and made farming methods improve which got the agriculture revolution started.

Sepoy Rebellion

Oct 18, 1857

gossip spread among the sepoys that the catridges of their new newenfield rifle were greased with beef or pork fat. mislims don't eat pork so they got mad

British colonized India

Oct 18, 1858

The British took command on India. India had come under the British crown during the reign of queen victoria.

Creation of the Indian National Congress

Oct 18, 1885

nationalism was growing so they created the indian national congress. They were one of the groups concentrated on concerns indians have.

Creation of the Muslim league

Oct 18, 1906

A organization founded to protect Muslim interest against the INC.

Amritsar massacre

Oct 18, 1919

A huge festival was taken place in an enclosed square to fast, pray , and listen to speeches. The British had public meetings so they send troops to fire on the crowd . That day many died and others were severely injured but none of them fought back. This sparked anger across India.

Rowlett acts

Oct 18, 1919

These were laws that allowed the goverment to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years.

Mohandas Gandhi's leadership of the INC

Oct 18, 1920

Because of the Amritsar massacre Gandhi became the leader of the independence movement. Soon he persuaded the INC to endorse civil disobedience.

Gandhi's travels stressing nonviolent resistance

Oct 18, 1920

Gandhi launched his campaign of law and nonviolence. Then the civil disobedience campaign to weaken the british governments authority over India.

The salt march

Oct 18, 1930

Gandhi organized a demostration to defy the hated salt acts. They didn't want to pay any salt tax so they went to the ocean and made there own. They then planned a peaceful march in front of salt companys. many were injured but they remained peaceful.

Government of India act

Oct 18, 1935

The British parliament passed the India act which provided local self-government snd limited democratic. Elections but not total independence.

WWII- riots between Hindus and Muslims

Aug 18, 1946

4 days of riots in between muslims and hindus in Calcutta left more than 5,000 dead and 15,000 hurt.

Indian&Pakistan independence

Jul 16, 1947

This granted India and Pakistan independence in one months time. This set off a lot of riots.

Partition

Oct 18, 1947

They seperated pakistan into two states(west pakistan & east pakistan) this was made to seperate the muslim and indu nations.

Gandhi's death

Jan 30, 1948

Gandhi was shot by a hindu because he thought Gandhi protected the Muslims too much.