⚔ Conquest / annexation
Awadh annexed
1856 – present · 📍 Lucknow
What it led to: Wajid Ali Shah was deposed on the charge of misgovernance.
Where it happened.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 1849 ⚔ Punjab annexed · British East India Company
- 1855 Santhal Hul (rebellion) · British East India Company
- 1856 Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act · British East India Company
- 1857 Revolt of 1857 begins at Meerut
- 1857 Mangal Pandey's attack at Barrackpore · British East India Company
- 1857 Rebels proclaim Bahadur Shah Zafar emperor
- 1858 Government of India Act — Crown rule begins · British Raj (Crown Rule)
- 1858 ⚔ Rani Lakshmibai falls at Gwalior
Alive at the time
Lalon Fakir
c. 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
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
Alexander Cunningham1814 – 1893
Founder of the Archaeological Survey of India
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan1817 – 1898
Founder of the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh
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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