⚔ Battle

Second Anglo-Afghan War

1878 – present · 📍 Kabul

Emirate of Afghanistan

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1839First Anglo-Afghan War begins → Shah Shuja was installed in Kabul, but British forces were destroyed in 1842. 1979Soviet intervention in Afghanistan

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

  1. 1869 Birth of Mahatma Gandhi
  2. 1872 First census of British India · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  3. 1875 Arya Samaj and Aligarh (MAO) College founded · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  4. 1876 Indian Association founded · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  5. 1877 Delhi Durbar: Victoria proclaimed Empress of India · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  6. 1878 Vernacular Press Act · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  7. 1883 Ilbert Bill controversy · British Raj (Crown Rule)
  8. 1885 Indian National Congress founded · British Raj (Crown Rule)

Alive at the time

Lalon Fakir
c. 1774 – c. 1890
Baul mystic poet of Bengal
Alexander Cunningham
1814 – 1893
Founder of the Archaeological Survey of India
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
1817 – 1898
Founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
1820 – 1891
Campaigned for the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856
Begum Hazrat Mahal
1820 – 1879
Led the 1857 revolt in Lucknow
Nana Sahib
born 1824
Adopted heir of Baji Rao II who led the 1857 revolt at Kanpur
Swami Dayananda Saraswati
1824 – 1883
Founder of the Arya Samaj
Dadabhai Naoroji
1825 – 1917
The 'Grand Old Man of India' who formulated the drain theory

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