Study Guide · Chapter 11
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| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| First English factory in India | Surat (1613) |
| Battle that began British political dominance | Battle of Plassey (1757) |
| Battle that established firm British supremacy | Battle of Buxar (1764) |
| Grant of Diwani of Bengal | Treaty of Allahabad (1765) |
| First Governor-General of Bengal | Warren Hastings |
| Introduced Permanent Settlement | Lord Cornwallis (1793) |
| Introduced Subsidiary Alliance | Lord Wellesley |
| Introduced Doctrine of Lapse | Lord Dalhousie |
| First railway line in India | 1853, Bombay to Thane |
| Immediate cause of the 1857 Revolt | Greased Enfield rifle cartridges |
| Symbolic head of the 1857 Revolt | Bahadur Shah Zafar |
| Act that ended East India Company rule | Government of India Act 1858 |
| First Viceroy of India | Lord Canning |
| Founder of the Indian National Congress | Allan Octavian Hume (1885) |
| First President of the INC | W.C. Bonnerjee |
| "Father of Modern India" | Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Author of "Drain of Wealth" theory | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh | 1919, ordered by General Dyer |
| Movement halted after Chauri Chaura | Non-Cooperation Movement (1922) |
| Salt Satyagraha leader and destination | Gandhi, Dandi (1930) |
| Pact replacing separate electorates for Dalits | Poona Pact (1932), Gandhi–Ambedkar |
| "Do or Die" call | Quit India Movement (1942) |
| Founder of the INA's Azad Hind government | Subhas Chandra Bose |
| Architect of the partition boundary lines | Cyril Radcliffe |
| Integrator of princely states | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel |
| Date of Indian Independence | 15 August 1947 |
(End of Modern India notes. See the dedicated Freedom Movement, Congress Sessions, Revolutionary Movements, Acts & Reforms, and Governor-Generals & Viceroys files for exhaustive, exam-level detail on each sub-topic touched here.)
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