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India Independence Day India Independence Day is celebrated on the 15th of August every year. The independence day of India marks the end of the British raj in India and the birth of a free, independent nation after a long struggle of more than 200 years. It holds a very significant place in the history…
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The Delhi Sultanate History and Rulers Slave Dynasty (1206-1290) This dynasty is also called Mamluk Dynasty. It is called the slave dynasty because three important Sultans of this dynasty were Slaves. Qutbuddin Aibak was a slave of Mohammad Ghori, Iltutmish was a slave of Qutbuddin Aibak and Balban was a Slave of Iltutmish. Who is…
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Poona Pact History The British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, on August 16, 1932, announced the Communal Award which provided for separate electorates for the Muslims, Indian-based Christians, the ‘Depressed Classes’, the Anglo-Indians, Europeans, and Sikhs. In the Morley-Minto Reforms (1909) and the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919), the British government had already put in place the notion…
Indian national congress history The final idea of the INC was shaped by a retired English civil servant, A.O Hume, who mobilized leading intellectuals of the time and with their cooperation organized the first session of the INC under the Presidentship of Womesh Chandra Bonnerjea at Bombay in December 1885. Hereafter, the INC met every…
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Gandhi Irwin Pact Background The history of the Pact is related to the rejection of Mahatma Gandhi’s demands and the Civil Disobedience Movement. The rejection of the Mahatma Gandhi demands put forward in Delhi Manifesto led to the Congress Lahore session. Later Gandhi put forward the 11 demands under the Civil Disobedience movement and 31 January…
List of the governor-general of India Governor-general & viceroy of India list Years of rule Important events in their rule Warren Hastings 1773-1785 Enactment of Regulating Act 1773 Ended the dual system of administration in 1772 set up by Robert Clive Enactment Pitt’s India Act 1784 The Rohilla War between Rohillas and Nawab of…