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Reform movements and the Freedom Struggle
1859 – 1947
Key events
| 1859 · Nadia | Indigo revolt in Bengal |
| 1869 · Porbandar | Birth of Mahatma Gandhi |
| 1872 | First census of British India |
| 1875 · Aligarh | Arya Samaj and Aligarh (MAO) College founded |
| 1876 · Kolkata | Indian Association founded |
| 1877 · Delhi | Delhi Durbar: Victoria proclaimed Empress of India |
| 1878 | Vernacular Press Act |
| 1883 · Kolkata | Ilbert Bill controversy |
| 1885 · Mumbai | Indian National Congress founded |
| 1893 · Khyber Pass | Durand Line agreed |
| 1899 · Ranchi | Birsa Munda's Ulgulan |
| 1905 · Kolkata | Swadeshi movement launched |
| 1905 · Kolkata | Partition of Bengal |
| 1906 · Dhaka | All-India Muslim League founded |
| 1907 · Surat | Surat split of the Congress |
| 1908 · Muzaffarpur | Khudiram Bose executed |
| 1909 | Morley-Minto Reforms |
| 1911 · Delhi | Capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi |
| 1911 · Delhi | Delhi Durbar annuls the Partition of Bengal |
| 1913 · Santiniketan | Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize |
| 1915 · Mumbai | Gandhi returns to India |
| 1916 · Lucknow | Lucknow Pact |
| 1916 · Pune | Home Rule Leagues launched |
| 1917 · Champaran | Champaran Satyagraha |
| 1918 · Kheda | Kheda Satyagraha |
| 1918 · Ahmedabad | Ahmedabad mill strike |
| 1919 · Amritsar | Jallianwala Bagh massacre |
| 1919 | Rowlatt Act |
| 1919 | Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms |
| 1920 | Non-Cooperation Movement |
| 1920 | Khilafat Movement |
| 1922 · Chauri Chaura | Chauri Chaura incident |
| 1923 · Allahabad | Swaraj Party founded |
| 1928 · Lahore | Simon Commission boycotted |
| 1931 · Lahore | Execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru |
| 1942 · Mumbai | Quit India Movement |
| 1943 · Bengal | Bengal famine |
| 1947 · New Delhi | Independence and Partition |
| 1947 · Karachi | Pakistan comes into being |
| 1947 · New Delhi | Mountbatten Plan |
Key terms
- Objectives Resolution
- The resolution Nehru moved in the Constituent Assembly on 13 December 1946, setting out the vision of the Constitution. (NCERT Class 12, Framing the Constitution)
- Purna Swaraj
- Complete independence — the Congress's declared goal; ‘Independence Day’ was first observed on 26 January 1930. (NCERT Class 12, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement)
- Satyagraha
- The technique of non-violent protest that Mahatma Gandhi first forged in South Africa. (NCERT Class 12, Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement)
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