⚔ Conquest / annexation
British capture Delhi
1803 – present · 📍 Delhi
The Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–05) was fought on several fronts and left the British in possession of Orissa and the territories north of the Yamuna, including Agra and Delhi.
What it led to: The Mughal emperor came under British protection.
The large dot is this battle; small dots are other battles fought at the same place.
♻ Fought over again and again
Other battles within 40 km of this place.
1299Mongols defeated at Kili
→ Alauddin Khalji's army repelled Qutlugh Khwaja's Mongol invasion.
1398Timur sacks Delhi
→ Delhi was devastated and the Tughlaq sultanate never recovered.
1737Baji Rao raids Delhi
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1796 ⚔ British take coastal Ceylon from the Dutch · British Ceylon
- 1798 Hyderabad accepts the Subsidiary Alliance · Hyderabad State (Nizams)
- 1799 ⚔ Fall of Srirangapatna · Kingdom of Mysore
- 1799 Ranjit Singh takes Lahore · Sikh Empire
- 1802 Treaty of Bassein · Maratha Empire
- 1803 ⚔ Battle of Assaye · British East India Company
- 1806 Vellore mutiny · British East India Company
- 1809 Treaty of Amritsar fixes the Sutlej frontier · Sikh Empire
Alive at the time
Pazhassi Raja
1753 – 1805
Kerala ruler who fought the Company in the Cotiote War
Tyagaraja1767 – 1847
Carnatic composer, one of the musical Trinity
Raja Ram Mohan Roy1772 – 1833
Founder of the Brahmo Samaj who campaigned against sati
Lalon Fakirc. 1774 – c. 1890
Baul mystic poet of Bengal
Kunwar Singh1777 – 1858
Octogenarian leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar
Kittur Chennamma1778 – 1829
Queen of Kittur who led an armed revolt against the Company in 1824
Hari Singh Nalwa1791 – 1837
Sikh general who governed Peshawar
Mirza Ghalib1797 – 1869
Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi
🕸 Connections 39 links
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🗂 Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- East India Company RuleBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 12
- Fort St George, Madras 1639 – 1858Part of it
- Bombay (English East India Company) 1668 – 1858Part of it
- Sultanate of the Maldives 1153 – 1968Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Malla Dynasty of Nepal 1201 – 1769Existed at the same time (169 years)
- Ahom Kingdom 1228 – 1826Existed at the same time (226 years)
- Mewar (Sisodia) 1326 – 1949Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Vijayanagara Empire 1336 – 1646Existed at the same time (46 years)
- Kingdom of Mysore 1399 – 1950Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Kingdom of Kandy 1469 – 1815Existed at the same time (215 years)
- Portuguese Estado da Índia 1505 – 1961Existed at the same time (258 years)
- Mughal Empire 1526 – 1857Existed at the same time (257 years)
- Maratha Empire 1674 – 1818Existed at the same time (144 years)
👑 Rulers 6
- Robert Clive 1758 – 1760Ruled it
- Robert Clive 1765 – 1767Ruled it
- Warren Hastings 1773 – 1785Ruled it
- Lord Cornwallis 1786 – 1793Ruled it
- Lord Wellesley 1798 – 1805Ruled it
- Lord Hastings 1813 – 1823Ruled it
👤 People 5
- Sir William Jones 1746 – 1794Lived under it
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1772 – 1833Lived under it
- James Prinsep 1799 – 1840Lived under it
- Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800 – 1859Lived under it
- Mangal Pandey 1827 – 1857Lived under it
⚔ Events 6
- East India Company chartered 1600Happened in it
- Job Charnock founds Calcutta 1690Happened in it
- Battle of Plassey 1757Happened in it
- Battle of Buxar 1764Happened in it
- Diwani of Bengal granted 1765Happened in it
- Great Bengal Famine 1770Happened in it
📍 Places & sites 1
- Fort William, Calcutta 1696A place of this polity
🔧 Technology 2
- Jantar Mantar observatory early 18th centuryMade or discovered in this time
- The first passenger train 16 April 1853Made or discovered in this time
📄 Research 3
- Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India D. A. Washbrook · 1981Research on this topic
- Knowing the Country: Empire and Information in India C. A. Bayly · 1993Research on this topic
- The Company Army and Rural Society: The Invalid Thanah 1780–1830 Seema Alavi · 1993Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- History of Modern India Bipan ChandraRecommended reading
- A Brief History of Modern India Rajiv AhirRecommended reading