1774 | Warren Hastings of the British India Company became the first governor-general of India. | |
1857-58 | the Mutiny, until then the British were more or less welcome. | |
1885 | The Indian National Congress Party was set up. (Under mahatma Gandhi and jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress later led the national independence movement.) | |
1947 8/14;8/15 | Partition into India and Pakistan;
& Independence |
Gandhi (Parrinder 230) |
1948 | India achieved sovereignty. | |
1965 | Indo-Pakistani war | |
1975-1977 | Indira Gandhi's Emergency Rule |
The
Positive
(?) Work of the Colonizer:
The British, however, did nothing to The Gate of India, the symbol of Bombay, in memory of
the arrival of King George V's arrival in 191l. |