ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : British India Company </title> <META name="keywords" keyword="the Raj"> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2005-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="grey" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Historical Atlas <BR> British India </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../histatlas/india/haxbrindia.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xbrindia.html"> <img src = "../banners/banbrindia.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../military/milxbrindia.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "200" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Wars of British India </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on December 15th 2005</i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5834279270464755"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; //2007-02-17: MIT_ Ganse google_ad_channel = "0420158018"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR><BR> </div> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : British India </B></font> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> <BR><BR> 1857-1858 <BR> 1858 <BR> 1867 <BR> 1869 <BR> 1870-1905 <BR> 1876 <BR> 1877 <BR> 1878-1881 <BR> 1880 <BR> 1882 <BR> 1885 <BR> 1885-1886 <BR> 1887 <BR> 1890-1893 <BR> 1895 <BR> 1899 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1905 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1909 <BR> 1909 <BR> 1912 <BR><BR> 1913 <BR> 1914-1918 <BR> 1915 <BR> 1916 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1919 <BR> 1919-1924 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1920 <BR> 1920-1922 <BR> 1922-1924 <BR> 1930 <BR> 1930 <BR> 1931-1933 <BR> 1935 <BR> 1935 <BR> 1936 <BR> 1937 <BR> 1940 <BR> 1941-1945 <BR> 1942 <BR> 1942-1945 <BR> 1942-1944 <BR> 1947 <BR> </font></TD> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> For previous era, click <A HREF = "xeic.html">History of the East India Company</A> <BR><BR> <A HREF = "../../military/19cen/sepoy185758.html">Sepoy Mutiny</A> <BR> <A HREF = "xeic.html">E.I.C.</A> ceded administration of India to British government <BR> <A HREF = "../seasia/xstraits.html">Straits Settlements</A> separated from British India, made a separate crown colony <BR> Suez Canal opened <BR> Construction of canals in the Punjab; extension of arable land <BR> Capital moved from Calcutta to (New) Delhi <BR> Queen Victoria crowned Empress of India <BR> Second Anglo-Afghan War <BR> India had 14,500 km of railroad tracks <BR> University of the Punjab, at Lahore, established <BR> Indian National Congress founded <BR> Third Anglo-Burmese War; annexation of Upper Burma <BR> University of Allahabad established <BR> Chitral Campaign; Annexation of territory along western border <BR> Begin of Locomotive Construction in India <BR> Rudyard Kipling published poem "White Man's Burden" <BR> Great Indian Peninsular Railroad nationalized <BR> Bengal partitioned into two - West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam <BR> First Hindu, Muslim members appointed to Council of India <BR> Anglo-Russian Entente <BR> Most private railroad companies nationalized <BR> Morley-Minto Reforms (Government of India Act) <BR> All-India Muslim League founded <BR> Provinces of Bihar and Orissa, of <A HREF = "xassam.html">Assam</A> created; remainder of West, East Bengal merged <BR> into Province of Bengal <BR> Rabindranath Tagore awarded Nobel Prize for Literature <BR> World War I; many Indian soldiers fought on the British side <BR> Mohandas K. Gandhi returned to India <BR> Lucknow Pact concluded by Congress, Muslim League <BR> Amritsar Massacre <BR> Government of India Act <BR> Third Anglo-Afghan War <BR> Khilafat Movement <BR> India had 61,220 km of railroad track <BR> Gandhi, Congress demanded Swaraj (independence) <BR> First Satyagraha Campaign <BR> Gandhi jailed <BR> Great Depression; prices for India's export products declined <BR> Dandi March (to violate the state monopoly on making salt) <BR> Indian Round Table Conferences held in London <BR> Government of India Act <BR> Province of Bihar and Orissa partitioned into Provinces of <A HREF = "xbihar.html">Bihar</A>, Orissa <BR> Mohammad Ali Jinnah left Congress, took lead of Muslim League <BR> <A HREF = "../seasia/xburma.html">Burma</A>, <A HREF = "../arabworld/xaden.html">Aden</A> separated from British India <BR> Muslim League raised demand for separate Muslim state of <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A> <BR> World War II against Japan; border India-Burma frontier for much of the war <BR> Japanese forces occupied Andaman, Nicobar Islands <BR> Gandhi's Quit India Movement <BR> Gandhi jailed <BR> <A HREF = "xpakistan.html">Pakistan</A>, <A HREF = "xindia.html">Republic of India</A> released into independence <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function SymError() { return true; } window.onerror = SymError; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-0213752126925919"; google_alternate_color = "FFFFE1"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel ="4814426207"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_color_border = "FF3300"; google_color_bg = "FFFFE1"; google_color_link = "0000CC"; google_color_url = "008000"; google_color_text = "6F6F6F"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "3" cellspace="5" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "100" valign = "top" align = "center" bgcolor="#FFFACD"> <font size = "3" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> EXTERNAL <BR> FILES </font></TD> <TD width = "750" valign = "top" align = "left" bgcolor = "#FFFACD"> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman" color = "#000000"> Article History of Calcutta, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta#History"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> Article Governor-General of India, from <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India"><B>Wikipedia</B></A> <BR> History of Mumbai, from <A HREF = "http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/history/"><B>The Mumbai Pages</B></A> <BR> History of Chennai (Madras), from <A HREF = "http://www.chennaibest.com/discoverchennai/sightseeing/history/1639.asp#1"><B> Chennai Best</B></A> <BR> Wikipedia Articles : <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi"><B>Mahatma Gandhi</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Movement"><B>Indian Independence Movement</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha"><B>Satyagraha</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khilafat_Movement"><B>Khilafat Movement</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj"><B>British Raj</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_party"><B>Indian National Congress</B></A>, <A HREF = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_India"><B>History of Rail Transport in India</B></A> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <font size = "2" face = "Times Roman"> Click here to go <A HREF = "../../index.html">Home</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../../about.html">Information about KMLA, WHKMLA, the author and webmaster</A> <BR> Click here to go to <A HREF = "../..links.html">Statistics</A><BR> </font> <BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "1"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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