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Period: 1600 BCE to 1699 BCE
1600's
Queen Anne 1 granted a royal charter to some London 1 merchants to have sole ownership of trade with the East Indies. -
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1611
Around the year 1611, the 2British East India Company established its first factory post in Masulipatnam on the Andhra Coast of the Bay of Bengal. -
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1700's
At its peak before 1750, the area we call India today made up 25% of the world’s industrial production. The decline of the region started about 150 years before their peak in 1750. -
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1757
It also allowed the EIC to wage war on the states in the Indian region including Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab (governor) of Bengal during the Battle of Plassey in 1757. -
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1800's
The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 led to the direct control of the territories previously captured by the 5 EIC by the British crown. -
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1858
In 1858, the Government of India Act transferred 6 full governing authority from the EIC to the British government. -
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1876
18 years later in 1876, Queen 7 Victoria of the British Empire was named empress of India. -
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1900's
One such challenge was the Salt March in 1930 which was a nonviolent show of civil 8 disobedience led by Gandhi. -
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World War ll
By the end of World War II, the British were ready to give up rule in India which led to Indian independence and the partition of the ruled area into two separate nations- Pakistan and India.