No More Learning

Second Sikh War.
Anncxation of the Panjah.
Drinkwater Bethune establishes a school for Hindu girls.
Moplah rising.
Second Burmese War.
Wahabi conspiracy discovered at Patna.
1835
1836
1839
1840
1842
1843
1844
1845
1847
1848
1849
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1853
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
Sir John Lawrence chief commissioner of the Panjab
Railway opened from Bombay to Thana.
Assignment of Berar.
Telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra begun.
Annexation of Nagpur.
The Company's charter renewed; considerable changes made in the
legislative council.
Bengal placed under a lieutenant-governor.
The covenanted civil service to be recruited by competition.
Treaty with Dost-Muhammad.
Sonthal rebellion.
Annexation of Oudh.
Lord Canning governor-general.
War with Persia.
Further treaty with Dost Muhammad.
Sir Henry Lawrence chicf commissioner of Oudh.
Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
Delhi recovered.
Havelock and Outram reach Lucknow.
Sir Colin Campbell relieves Lucknow.
Sir Hugh Rose's campaign in Central India.
Sir Colin Campbell reduces Oudh.
Government of India to be conducted in the name of the quccn
The White Mutiny.
James Wilson first finance member.
Issue of sanads of adoption.
The Nil Darpan produced.
The Order of the Star of India instituted.
Famine in the North-Western Provinces.
The Penal Code introduced.
Lord Elgin governor-general.
Sir Bartle Frere governor of Bombay.
Amalgamation of the Supreme and sadr courts into High Courts.
Dost Muhammad takes Herat and dies.
Afghan War of Succession.
Ambela campaign.
Sir John Lawrence governor-general.
The Bhutan War.
Telegraphic communication with Europe opened.
The Orissa fainine.
Sher Ali receives an annual grant of 6 lakhs.
Panjab Tenancy Act passed.
Railway opened from Ambala to Delhi.
Lord Mayo governor-general.
Conference at Ambala.
Yakub's rebellion in Afghanistan.
Mayo's first provincial settlement.
Engineering College at Cooper's Hill opened.
The Kuka revolt.
Lord Northbrook governor-general.
The Seistan boundary report.
The Russians reduce Khiva.
The Simla Conference.
The Bihar famine.
Lord Salisbury secretary of state for India.
The Gaekwar's case.
Mayo College, Ajmer, opened.
Visit of the Prince of Wales.
The Royal Titles Act.
1863
1864
1865
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
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1873
1874
1875
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1065
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
Lord Lytton governor-general.
Treaty with Kalat.
The queen proclaimed empress of India.
Proposed mission to Afghanistan.
Famine in the Deccan.
Lytton's Delhi durbar.
Faminc extends northwards.
Famine insurance introduced into the budget.
Vernacular Press Act.
Indian troops sent to Malta.
Stolietoff's mission to Kabul.
Second Afghan War.
Flight of Sher Ali.
Treaty of Gandammak.
Murder of Cavagnari at Kabul.
Yakub abdicates.
Kabul reoccupied.
Lord Ripon governor-general.
Battle of Maiwand.
Roberts' march to Kandahar.
Abd-ur-rahman recognised as amir of Kabul.
Abd-ur-rahman occupies Kandahar.
Hindu-Muslim riots at Salem.
The Ilbert bill.
Merv occupied by the Russians.
Russo-Afghan frontier commission appointed.
Lord Dufferin governor-general.
First meeting of the Indian National Congress.
The Franco-Burmese treaty.
The Panjdeh incident.
The Bengal Tenancy Act.
Abd-ur-rahman at Rawalpindi.
Bengal Local Self-Government Act.
Third Burmese War.
Gwalior fort restored to Sindhia.
Annexation of Upper Burma.
Afghan northern boundary delimited.
Hindu-Muslim riots at Delhi.
Ghilzai revolt in Afghanistan.
Ishak Khan's rebellion.
Hazara punitive expedition.
Lord Lansdowne governor-general.
Abdication of the Maharajah of Kashmir.
Second visit of the Prince of Wales.
Factory Act.
Age of Consent Act.
Manipur rebellion.
Indian Councils Act introduces the principle of election.
Death of Sandeman.
Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay.
The Durand Mission to Kabul.
Lord Elgin governor-general.
The Opium Commission.
Final settlement of the Russo-Afghan frontier.
The Chitral expedition. .
Indians in Natal lose the franchise.
Plague at Bombay.
Murder of Rand and Ayerst at Poona.
Frontier risings.
1886
1887
1888
1889
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
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1898
1899
1900
1901
1904
1995
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Dorjieff's first mission to Russia.
Lord Curzon governor-general.
North-West Frontier Province formed.
Habib-ullah amir of Afghanistan.
The Younghusband expedition to Tibet.
The Dane Treaty with the amir.
The partition of Bengal.
Lord Minto governor-general.
Quetta-Nushki Railway completed.
John Morley secretary of state for India.
Habib-ullah's visit to India.
The Anglo-Russian Convention.
Attempt on Sir Andrew Fraser.
Congress split at Surat.
Entrance of Indians into the Transvaal restricted.
Tilak convicted of sedition.
The Newspapers Act.
Morley-Minto reforms become law.
S. P. Sinha appointed to the governor-general's council.
Proposal to establish an executive council in the United Provinces.
Newspapers (Incitement to Offences) Act.
Recruitment of indentured labour for South Africa suspended.
Arms traffic checked by blockading the Persian Gulf.
Lord Hardinge governor-general.
Lord Crewe secretary of state for India.
The Delhi durbar.
Transfer of the capital to Delhi announced.
The partition of Bengal revoked.
The Balkan War and Indian Muslim excitement.
Attempt on Lord Hardinge.
Hardinge's pronouncement regarding Indian grievances in South Africa.
Outbreak of the German War.
Expedition to Mesopotamia.
The Defence of India Act.
Sir Austen Chamberlain secretary of state for India.
The Home Rule Movement.
The Lucknow Pact of the Muslim League and the National Congress.
Lord Chelmsford governor-general.
Expedition into Waziristan.
Mr E. S. Montagu secretary of state for India.
Mr Montagu's declaration in the House of Commons.
The Rowlatt Committee appointed.
The war with Germany comes to an end.
Mr Montagu's visit to Índia.
The Rowlatt Acts passed.
Habib-ullah's inurder.
The Montagu-Chelmsford reforms become law.
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
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1922
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
Chaura Chauri incident in U. P.
Mahatma Gandhi arrested.
Princes Protection Bill certified by Governor-General.
Appointment of Lee Commission.
Workmen Compensation Act passed.
Swarajist Party formed.
Bureau of Education abolished.
Resolution by Dr. H. 8. Gour in Central Assembly.
Demand for Constituent Assembly made by Swarajist Party.
Appointment of Muddiman Committee.
Bengal Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1924 issued.
Muddiman Committee Report submitted in September.
Nizam of Hyderabad claimed Berar.
Sikh Gurdwaras Act passed.
Inter-University Board for India set up.
Lord Irwin appoined Governor-General of India.
Hindu-Muslim riots in India.
Trade Union Act passed.
Kakori case decided in April.
Simon Commission appointed in November,
Butler Committee appointed in December.
Butler Committee visited India in January.
Nehru Report submitted in August.
Lajpatrai given Lathi blows in October.
Death of Lajpatrai on 17 November.
All Parties Conference met at Calcutta in December.
Congress passed Resolution demanding Dominion status for India.
Jinnah's Fourteen Points.
Sardar Bhagat Singh threw bomb in Central Assembly at New Delhi
in April.
Lord Irwin announced in October that goal of British Government in
India is Dominion Status.
Bomb thrown on train of Lord Irwin on 23 December.
Congress declared on 31 December that India would have full inde-
pendence.
Whitley Commission appointed.
Independence Day celebrated on 26. January.
Dandi March of Mahatma Gandhi on 12 March.
Simon Commission Report submitted.
Sarda Act passeil.
Bhagat Singh sentenced to death.
First Round Table Conference held in London.
Sir Mohammad Iqbal presided over Allahabad Session of All-India
Muslim League.
Gandhi-Irwin Pact in March.
Sardar Bhagat Singh hanged.
Appointment of Lord Willingdon as Governor-General of India.
Report of Whitley Commission submitted in July 1931.
Mahatma Gandhi attended Round Table Conference in London.
Arrest of Mahatma Gandhi.
Indian Press (Emergency Powers) Act, 1931 passed.
Foreign Relations Act passed.
Communal Award announced on 16 August.
Poona Paet signed in September.
Third Round Table Conference held in London.
White Paper Proposals published in March.
Appointment of Joint Select Commission in April.
Civil Disobedience Morement suspended.
Indian States (Protection) Act, 1934 passed.
Indian Factories Act passed.
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1932
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1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1942
1943
1944
1945
Joint Selcet Committee Report submitted in November.
Government of India Bill passed by Parliament in July.
Royal Assent given to Government of India Bill on 2 August.
Appointment of Lord Linlithgow as Governor-General.
General Elections held in India.
Provincial autonomy introduced on 1 April.
Congress formed Ministries in seven Provinces.
Subhas Chandra Bose elected Congress President.
Second World War started in September.
Congress Ministries in the Provinces resigned in October-November.
Defence of India Act, 1939 passed.
Defence of Iriuia Rules issued.
Lord Linlithgow declared in January that Dominion Status was goal
of British Government in India.
Pakistan Resolution passed on 23 March at Lahore.
The August Offer made on 8 August by the Governor-General.
Chiang Kai-shek visited India in February.
Fall of Singapore in February.
Fall of Rangoon in March.
Cripps came to India with his Proposals in March.
Failure of Cripps Mission.
Quit India Resolution passed on 8 August.
Bengal Famine.
Lord Wavell appointed Governor-General in October.
Rajagopalachariar Formula on Pakistan in March.
Gandhi-Jimial Talks in September,
Dssai-Liaquat Formula in January.
Surrender of Germany on 5 May.
Broadcast by Lord Wavell on 14 June.
Simla Conference opened on 27 June.
Labour Party came to power in England on 10 July.
Simla Conference declared a failure on 14 July.
Surrender of Japan in August.
Statement by Pethick-Lawrence on 4 December.
General Elections lield in India towards the end of 1945
British Parliamentary Delegation came to India in January.
Cabinet Mission comes to India. .
Cabinet Mission Scheme announced on 16 May.
Cabinet Mission issued its Memorandum on Indian States on 22 May.
Muslim League accepted Cabinet Mission Scheme on 6 June.
Muslim League withdrew its acceptance on 29 July.
Direct Action Day celebrated by Muslim League in India on 16
August.
Calcutta killing in August.
Naokhali Riots.
Interim Government formed by Nehru on 2 September.
Muslim League joined Interim Government in October.
Constituent Assembly met on 9 December at New Delhi.
Attlee's Statement on 20 February.
Asian Relations Conference held at Delhi in March.
Lord Mountbatten appointed Covernor-General in March.
3 June Plan announced.
Indian Independence Act passed on 18 July.
India became free on 15 August.
Radcliffc Boundary Award announced on 17 August.
Pakistan attacked Kashmir on 22 October
State of Junagadh taken over by Government of India on 9 November.
Standstill Agreement signed by India with Nizam of Hyderabad on
29 November.
Murder of Malama Gandhi on 30 January.
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1069
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1954
Lord Mountbatten Jeft India in Junc.
Rajugopalachariar appointed Governor-General.
Draft Constitution of India published in July.
Death of Mr. Jinnal in September.
Police Action against Hyderabad in September.
Linguistic Provinces Committee set up by Government of India.
Press Trust of India set up.
Press Laws Enquiry Committee set up.
Radhakrishnan University Comunission appointed.
Cease-fire declared in Kashmir on 1 January.
Overthrow of the regime of the Ranas in Nepal.
India entered into a Treaty with Bhutan in August,
Constitution of India adopted by Constituent Assembly of India on
26 November.
Communist China recognised by India in December 1949.
Constitution of India came into force on 26 January.
Planning Commission set up.
Death of Sardar Patel.
Chandarnagar transferred to India by France.
Treaty between India and Sikkim signed in December.
First Five-Year Plan inaugurated.
India signed treaty with China about Tibet.
Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan in October.
Ghulam Mohammad became Governor-General of Pakistan.
First General Elections held in India under the new Constitution.
Election of Dr. Rajendra Prasad as First President of India.
Community Development Programme started on October.
Pakistan entered into military Pact with the United States in May.
Treaty signed between India and Communist Chiua.
Indian volunteers occupied Dadra and Nagar Havelli.
Pondicherry, Karikal, Mahe and Yanam transferred to India by
France.
Second Asian Relations Conference held in Delhi in April.
Bandung Conference held in April.
Chinese Camp at Barahoti in June.
Pakistan joined Baghdad Pact in September.
States Reorganization Commission submitted its Report in September,
Visits of Bulganin and Khruschev to India.
Hindu Marriage Act passed.
States Reorganization Act passed on 31 August.
Second Five-Year Plan inaugurated.
Constitution of Pakistan adopted.
Hindu Succession Act passed.
Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act passed.
State of Jammu and Kashmir declared integral part of India.
Second General Elections held in India.
Re-election of Dr. Rajendra Prasad as President of India.
President Iskandar Mirza ousted in Pakistan.
General Ayub Khan took over.
New Delhi visit of Chou En-lai in March.
Bombay Reorganization Act passed in April.
Indus Waters Treaty signed in September with Pakistan.
Chinese Intrusion into Sikkim in April.
Chinese intrusion into Laddakh in May.
Chinese intrusion into NEFA in July.
Goa occupied by India in December.
Chinese crossed into Longju area in NEFA in January.
Indian post in Calwan Valley surrounded by Chinese troops in July.
Chinse launched massive attack on NEFA border on 8 September,
India attacked by China on 20 October,
1955
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1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
Unilateral Cease-fire declared by China in November.
Third General Elections held in India.
Sir Radhakrishnan elected President of India.
Third Five-Year Plan started.
State of Nagaland set up.
Constitution of Pakistan came into force on 8 June.
Pakistan entered into Pact with Communist China in March.
Death of Jawaharlal Nehru in May.
Lal Bahadur Shastri becomes Prime Minister of India.
Pakistan attacked India in September.
Intervention by the Soviet Union and Cease-fire.
Tashkent Agreement signed in January.
Death of Lal Bahadur Sastri at Tashkent in January.
Shah Boundary Commission appointed to demarcate the boundary bet-
ween Punjab and Haryana.
Punjab Reorganization Act passed in Septeinber.
Mahajan Commission appointed in October to settle border dispute
between Maharashtra and Mysore.
Fourth General Elections held in India.
Dr. Zakir Husain elected President of India.
Pakistan Democratic Movement started in May.
Mahajan Report. submitted in August.
Peoples' Party started in Pakistan in November.
President Ayub Khan handed over power to General Yahya Khan in
March.
Yahya Khan becomes President.
Death of Dr. Zakir Husain in May.
Party conflict in the Congress over election of new President of India.
Election of Mr. V. V. Giri as President of India.
Split in the Congress Party.
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INDEX
Abadan pipe line, 479
Abbasid khalifas, 577
Abdul Hamid II, 466
Abdullah Jan, 411, 412, 417
Abdur Rahim, Sir, 377
Ab-dur-rahman, Amir, 405, 407, 412, 417,
420–2, 424-6, 428, 461, 462, 465
Abkari department, in Madras, 54, 55; in
Bombay, 62; in the United Provinces, 86
Adalati, the, 89
Adam, Mr, 105
Adam, William, his reports on education,
100, 101, 111, 113-15
Adam Khel Afridis, the, 452
Adams, Benjamin, 121
Adamson, Sir Hervey, 44!
Adda Mullah, the, see Najm-ud-din
Addiscombe Cadet College, 161, 397
Aden, 59, 150, 26:, 266, 381, 480; port
trust at, 263
Adlercron, Colonel John, 154
Administrator-general's Act, 259
Admiralty, the, 152
Admiralty jurisdiction, 260
Adrianople, 578
Adye, Sir John, 464
Afghanistan, 165; the first war with, 171,
409; treaty of 1857, 190, 404, 405; rela-
tions with, during the Mutiny, 193, 462;
policy towards, after the Mutiny, 214,
405 $99. ; Seistan boundary of, 311;
second war with, 397, 400, 419, 458;
later relations with, 428 899. , 460, 485;
frontier intrigues of, 460-3; raiders from,
474
Africa, east coast of, 152
Afridi tribes, 452, 454, 456, 458, 465, 470,
471, 473, 475
Afzal Khan, killed by Sivaji, 550
Afzal Khan, 405, 406
Afzal-ul-mulk, 461
Age of Consent Act, the, 394, 549, 550, 558
Agency tracts, the, 269
Agra, province of, 8; city of, 78, 297;
college at, 105; during the Mutiny, 178,
180, 196, 198
Agra Canal, the, 283
Agricultural education, 349
Agricultural research, 241, 265, 271, 272,
289, 290, 312, 352
Ahmadabad, 60, 64, 260, 586
Ahmadnagar, 59, 60, 65, 66, 133; police
corps, 71
Ain-i-Akbari, the, 127, 535
Aitchison, Sir Charles, 366, 441
Aix-la-chapelle, Peace of, 154
Ajab Khan, 461
Ajit Singh, 553
Ajmer, 345, 346
Ajmer-Merwara, 238
Aka Khel Afridis, the, 465
Akbar, 127
Alambagh, the, 189, 197, 199, 203
Alexander II, 408
Ali Masjid, 418
Alibag taluko, the, 59; attack on, 145
Aligarh, 345, 577
All India Muslim League, the, 582,587, 590
Allahabad, during the Mutiny, 181-4, 187,
196, 198, 199, 205; university at, 348;
High Court at, 380
Allen, Mr, 552
Alwar, 297, 482, 498
Aman-ullah, 430
Aman-ul-mulk, 461
Amarapura, 433
Ambala, 175, 177,410, 482, 530
Amherst, Lord, his recall considered, 13;
petitioned by Ram Mohan Roy, 105;
hesitates about suppressing sati, 140
Amin Khan, 405
Amritsar, Treaty of, 87; city, 190, 194, 530,
586
Anaimalai forests, 272
Anand Marriage Act, the, 394
Anandrava 'Dhulap, 147
Anantapur, 40
Andaman Íslands, the, 150, 181, 238, 240
Angad, 187, 189
Anglo-Indians, 162
Anglo-Japanese alliance, the, 426
Anglo-Russian Convention, the, 232, 428,
473, 577
Angria, 58, 144, 146
Anson, General, 175, 177, 182
Anusilan Samiti, the, 578
Arab tribesmen, as mercenaries, 38; the
Ben-ibu-Ali, 149; the Beni-yas, 150
Arabian Sea, pirates in the, 144
Arabic studies, 100, 102, 104, 112, 118, 345
Arabindo Ghose, 555
Arakan, 20, 23, 439, 441; Local Battalion,
442
Arakanese, the, 36
Arbabs, the, 461
Archaeology, 242
Arcot, districts of, 44; town of, 154, 163
Argyll, the Duke of, 18, 360; his views on
the Council of India, 213, 214; attempts
legislative control, 237, 244; on the per-
manent settlement, 248, 219; his Central
Asian policy, 411, 412, 416, 422, 423
Ariancopang, 154
Armies, the, of the East India Company,
153 $99;; their reorganisation after the
Mutiny, 395
Arms Act, thc, 539
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)
>
Army, the Indian, dual control of, 215, 229,
231; development of, 395 399. ; amalga-
mation of the presidency armies, 399,
400; reorganised in 1907, 400; re-
organised in 1922, 401, 402; functions of,
476; employment in 1914, 479, 480;
eligible for the V. C. , 576
Army Council, the, 221
Army in India Committee, the, 476
Armytage, Commodore, 147
Arrack, 54, 55
Arrah, 181, 200
Artillery, absorption of the East India
Company's, 395
Arya Samaj, the, 539, 540
Asirgarh, 201
Asmar, 461
Asquith, H. , Lord, 220
Assam, 20-3, 25, 219, 239, 245, 341, 361,
371, 501, 576; population of, 238; re-
cruitment in, 402; villages in, 512;
governor in council in, 595
Auckland, Lord, 13, 14; his educational
policy, 114
Aurangzib, 554
Australia, wheat imported from, 311
Austria, 490
Auxiliary Force, the, 402
Ava, 150
Avitabile, General, 450
Ayerst, Lieutenant, murder of, 550
Ayub Khan, 422
Azim Khan, 405, 406
Babti, the, 62
Badakshan, 409
Badal, 470
Baghdad, 481, 577
Bagwell, Commodore, 146
Bahawalpur, Curzon's speech at, 505
Baillie, Colonel, 156
Baji Rao II, 70, 167; discourages sati, 132
Bajour, 463-5, 471, 473
Baker, Sir Edward, 568, 580
Baku, 485
Balance of Indian trade, the, 330
Balfour, Arthur, Lord, 544, 569
Balkan War, the, 577, 578, 584
Balkh, 415, 421
Baluch tribes, 448, 449, 453, 455, 456, 466
Baluchi, 452
Baluchistan, and the agency, 455, 458, 459,
461, 466-8, 472
Banda district, 77
Bangabasi, the, 549
Bangalore, 482
Bangash, the, 471
Bangkok, 584
Baniya caste, the, 134
Bankot, 58
Bannu, 191, 451,467, 468
Banthira, 199
Bar, 283
Barasat, cadet college at, 161
Bareilly, 203
Barh, 143
Bari Doab, the, 93, 284
Barlow, Sir George, 164
Barnard, Sir Henry, 177, 178, 192, 193
Barnes, Mr, 192
Barnes, Sir Hugh, 441
Baroda, 60, 130, 259, 307, 499, 501; treatics
with, 489, 491
Barrackpore, 13, 162, 166, 174, 175
Bassein, 146; Treaty of, 167
Battray, James, 133
Bayley, Sir E. C. , 452
Bayley, Sir Stuart, 246
Beaconsfield, Lord, see Disraeli, Benjamin
Beas, the, 75, 93
Belgaum, 59, 66, 67
Belgium, 480
Bellary, 164, 267
Benares, 20, 34, 75, 76, 83, 129, 138, 281,
560; Hindu College at, 96, 99, 106, 111;
during the Mutiny, 181, 182, 184, 199,
200; Queen's Coliege at, 348; Central
Hindu College at, 354; terrorism at, 578,
579, 583
Bengal, Bay of, 149; surveyed, 152
Bengal, presidency of Fort William in, 3;
reduced in 1833, 8, 9; deputy governor
of, 9, 22; lieutenant-governor of, 19, 22,
239; extent of, 20, 21, 245; administra-
tion of, 21 599. , 77, 245 $99. ; thagi and
dacoity in, 32 899. ; effects of the Mutiny
on, 35, 36; education in, 36, 95 599. , 339,
3468, 350, 351; regulations of, 76, 77;
middle and upper classes in, 95, 251;
religious policy in, 122 599.