The discovery of the sea route to India is the description sometimes used in Europe and among the Portuguese for the first recorded trip made directly from Europe to India via the Atlantic Ocean. It was undertaken under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during the reign of King Manuel I in 1497 -1499.
The East India Company had the unusual distinction of ruling an entire country. Its origins were much humbler. On 31 December 1600, a group of merchants who had incorporated themselves into the East India Company were given monopoly privileges on all trade with the East Indies. The Company's ships first arrived in India, at the port of Surat, in 1608.
The East India Company had the unusual distinction of ruling an entire country. Its origins were much humbler. On 31 December 1600, a group of merchants who had incorporated themselves into the East India Company were given monopoly privileges on all trade with the East Indies. The Company's ships first arrived in India, at the port of Surat, in 1608.
Sir Thomas Roe from company reached the court of the Mughal Emperor, Jahangir, as the emissary of King James I in 1615, and gained for the British the right to establish a factory at Surat.
Then the company rented a trading outpost in Madras (now Chennai) in 1639.
Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan gave the permission to trade with Bengal, where Company had established their factory in 1641. In 1717, the Company achieved its most notable success when the Mughal Emperor exempting the Company from the payment of custom duties in Bengal.
1773 - Company's Rule - first Governor General of Bengal - Warren Hasting .
1784 - Pitts india Act.
1833 - Charter Act of 1833 .
First Governor general of India - Lord William Ben-tick
1853 - Charter Act of 1853.
1854 - Macaulay committee - committee on Indian civil service
1857 - sepoy mutiny - first war of independence
1858 - 1947 - The Crown Rule
1858 - Government of India Act of 1858.
Act for the good government of india.
the east india company transfer powers to territories and revenues for the british crown.
First Viceroy of india - Lord Cunning
secretary state
1861,1892,1909 - Indian councils Act
1861 - indians nominates to councils
1. Raja of Benaras
2. Maharaja of Patiyala
3. Sir Dinakar Rao
new legislative councils
1862 - Bengal
1866 - North -western frontier provinces (NWFP)
1897 - Punjab.
1909 - Morley-minto Reforms
lord morley - secretary state for india
lord minto - viceroy of india.
members in legislative council raised 16- 60
Sathyandra prasad sinha - first indian join to viceroys executive council as Law member.
Introduced system of communal representation for muslims.
Act " Legalised Communilism "
Lord minto - Father of commuunal electorate.
1919 - Government of india act 1919
august 20,1917 - responsible government in india
1926 -Montague - chemford reforms - ncentral public service commission .
1927 - Simon commission.
1932 - communal award .
1935 - Government of india act 1935
321-sections and 10 schedules
Federal list - 59 items
Provincial list - 54
Concurrent list - 36
effect 1937-1939
abolished the council of india .
10% population got voting right .
Reserve Bank of india (RBI)
1937 - Federal court .
1947 - Indian Independence Act of 1947 .
February20,1947 - British PM clement attee declared british rule ends by june 30,1948.
jun 3 ,1947 lord Mountbatten plane
Lord Mountbatten - First governer general of new india.
Nehru - First PM of india .
Constitute Assembly - Parliament .
It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 26 November 1949, and came into effect on 26 January 1950. With its adoption, it replaced the Government of India Act, 1935 as the country's fundamental governing document, and the Dominion of India became the modern and contemporary Republic of India.
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