Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last Sultan of Delhi, and began Mughal rule in India.
Robert Clive's East India Company army defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, and the Company became a political power.
The Company beat the combined forces of Mir Qasim, Shuja-ud-Daula and Shah Alam II. In 1765 it received the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.
It began at Meerut on 10 May 1857. Afterwards the Company's rule ended and the British Crown took over in 1858.
Founded with the help of A. O. Hume. W. C. Bonnerjee presided over its first session in Bombay.
Lord Curzon's decision sparked the Swadeshi movement. The partition was annulled in 1911.
On 13 April, General Dyer's troops fired on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar, an event that hardened opinion against British rule.
Non-Cooperation (1920 to 1922), Civil Disobedience with the Dandi Salt March (1930) and Quit India (1942).
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