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@ezsasa If somebody argues that the expansion of britfags was easy then decline and departure was faster.
Between that plassey (1757) and the 1857 war was a hundred years. Between the 1857 War and Indian Independence (1947) was only ninety. Britfags lost control fast.
Remember dates you all.
1600 – East India Company formed.
1683 – Britfags approves new charter which can now wage war.
1739 – Nadir shah’s raid on India sees britfags missing in action.
1746 – Chauth for Bengal & Bihar ceded to Marathas by mooghals and britfags are still nowhere.
1757 – Battle of plassey – an artificial landmark in Indian history but important to britfags.
1761 – Ahmad shah abdali defeat Marathas at Panipat. Maratha powers starts to decline.
1764 – Britfags take advantage of Maratha /mooghal weakness and win the minor Battle of Buxar, 22 October; which lands them the Diwani of Bengal and loot of India begins. Regular famines become feature.
1765-1785 – Britfags win battles against eiurofags (french, dutch, danes) but lose wars against Indian kings.
1781 – Surrender of coomerwallis, October 19 in amreekunts.
1786 – 23 February, coomerwallis appointed for India position. Departing in May, arrived at Madras – 22 August.
1799 – Topisultan’s death and britfags consolidates in India.
1818 – The Third anglo-Maratha /Pindari War ends.
1839 – Death of Ranjit Singh.
1845-1849 – The Sikh Wars in which britfags gained supremacy over the last outpost of Indian power.
1857 – Combined Indian forces, led by the mooghal-Maratha alliance declare war. Major battles continue for 18 months.
Loss of britfags control:
1916 – April 16. BG Tilak declares
Swaraj is my birthright; forms
Home Rule League at the Bombay Provincial Conference held at Belgaum.
1927 – Indian polity refuses to negotiate with simon commissions.
1930 – Bhagat Singh displays disinterest in the legal outcome of his trial.
1944 – India’s leading industrialists come together (Bombay Club) and make an economic-plan document for an India which is yet to be born; for a government that was yet to be formed.
1946 – Naval Ratings
raise the Indian Flag of independence.
1947 – Britfags out of India.