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  2. 1757 in India - Wikipedia

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    Events in the year 1757 in India. Events. National income - ₹9,322 million January – Recapture of Calcutta. [1] Battle of Plassey. [2] Sack of Delhi. [3]

  3. Colonial India - Wikipedia

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    Map of colonial India, ... EIC in India: 1600–1757: Company rule in India ... Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European ...

  4. Battle of Plassey - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French [1] allies on 23 June 1757.

  5. Sack of Delhi (1757) - Wikipedia

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    The Sack of Delhi occurred from 17 January to 22 February 1757, carried out by the Durrani Empire under the Afghan king Ahmad Shah Durrani. Delhi, the capital of the Mughal Empire, experienced multiple invasions by the Afghans during the 18th century. The decline of the Mughal Empire began with the death of Emperor Aurangzeb on 3 March 1707.

  6. Presidencies and provinces of British India - Wikipedia

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    The Imperial Gazetteer of India (26 vol, 1908–31), highly detailed description of all of India in 1901. online edition; Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. II (1908), The Indian Empire, Historical, Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxxv, 1 map, 573

  7. Timeline of Indian history - Wikipedia

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    India's largest-ever rural jobs scheme is launched, aimed at lifting around 60 million families out of poverty. March: US and India sign a nuclear agreement during a visit by US President George W. Bush. The US gives India access to civilian nuclear technology while India agrees to greater scrutiny for its nuclear programme. 2007: February

  8. Company rule in India - Wikipedia

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    The English East India Company ("the Company") was founded in 1600, as The Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies.It gained a foothold in India with the establishment of a factory in Masulipatnam on the Eastern coast of India in 1611 and the grant of the rights to establish a factory in Surat in 1612 by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

  9. British Raj - Wikipedia

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    The 1909 map of Indian Railways, the fourth largest in the world. Railway construction began in 1853. ... EIC in India: 1600–1757: Company rule in India: 1757 ...