⚔ Battle · ★ Major
First Anglo-Afghan War begins
1839 – present · 📍 Kabul
What it led to: Shah Shuja was installed in Kabul, but British forces were destroyed in 1842.
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Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1835 English Education Act · British East India Company
- 1839 Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh · Sikh Empire
- 1842 ⚔ British retreat from Kabul · Emirate of Afghanistan
- 1843 ⚔ Annexation of Sindh · British East India Company
- 1845 ⚔ First Anglo-Sikh War · Sikh Empire
- 1846 Jammu & Kashmir granted to Gulab Singh
- 1846 Kot massacre; Rana rule begins in Nepal · Kingdom of Nepal
- 1849 ⚔ Punjab annexed · British East India Company
Alive at the time
Tyagaraja
1767 – 1847
Carnatic composer, one of the musical Trinity
Lalon Fakirc. 1774 – c. 1890
Baul mystic poet of Bengal
Kunwar Singh1777 – 1858
Octogenarian leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar
Mirza Ghalib1797 – 1869
Urdu and Persian poet of Delhi
James Prinsep1799 – 1840
Deciphered the Brahmi script and Ashoka's edicts
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800 – 1859
Author of the 1835 Minute on Indian Education
Tantia Tope1814 – 1859
Guerrilla commander of the 1857 revolt
Bhanubhakta Acharya1814 – 1868
Adikavi of Nepali who translated the Ramayana
🕸 Connections 29 links
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🗂 Era 1
- Modern IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- British Crown Rule (Raj)Belongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 10
- Sultanate of the Maldives 1153 – 1968Existed at the same time (103 years)
- Mewar (Sisodia) 1326 – 1949Existed at the same time (103 years)
- Kingdom of Mysore 1399 – 1950Existed at the same time (103 years)
- Portuguese Estado da Índia 1505 – 1961Existed at the same time (103 years)
- Mughal Empire 1526 – 1857Existed at the same time (34 years)
- British East India Company 1600 – 1858Existed at the same time (35 years)
- Hyderabad State (Nizams) 1724 – 1948Existed at the same time (103 years)
- Sikh Empire 1799 – 1849Existed at the same time (26 years)
- Kingdom of Nepal 1816 – 2008Existed at the same time (103 years)
- British Raj (Crown Rule) 1858 – 1947Existed at the same time (68 years)
👑 Rulers 4
- Dost Mohammad Khan 1826 – 1839Ruled it
- Dost Mohammad Khan 1845 – 1863Ruled it
- Abdur Rahman Khan 1880 – 1901Ruled it
- Amanullah Khan 1919 – 1926Ruled it
⚔ Events 5
- First Anglo-Afghan War begins 1839Happened in it
- Durand Line agreed 1893Happened in it
- Third Anglo-Afghan War; Afghan independence 1919Happened in it
- British retreat from Kabul 1842Happened in it
- Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878Happened in it
🔧 Technology 3
- The first passenger train 16 April 1853Made or discovered in this time
- Electric light arrives 1879Made or discovered in this time
- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 1881Made or discovered in this time
📄 Research 3
- Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India D. A. Washbrook · 1981Research on this topic
- Archaeology and identity in colonial India Nayanjot Lahiri · 2000Research on this topic
- Landownership and Inequality in Madras Presidency: 1853-54 to 1946-47 Dharma Kumar · 1975Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- Our Pasts I, II & III (Classes 6–8) NCERTRecommended reading
- Themes in Indian History, Parts I–III (Class 12) NCERTRecommended reading