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  2. Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 - Wikipedia

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    A timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on the tenth of May 1857 in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the Upper Gangetic plain and Central India.

  3. Timeline of Indian history - Wikipedia

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    British Raj (to 1947) Marks the Beginning Of Direct British Rule Over India For 89 Years(1858–1947). 7 November: Bipin Chandra Pal is born (to 1932) 1859: 18 April: Death of Tatya Tope: 1861: 7 May: Rabindranath Tagore is born. 1862: The high courts of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay are established. [50] 1863: 12 January: Swami Vivekanand is ...

  4. Timeline of major famines in India during British rule

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    The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...

  5. Kandukuri Veeresalingam - Wikipedia

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    Veeresalingam was a scholar in Telugu, Sanskrit, and Hindi. Considering literature as an instrument to fight against social evils, his writings also reflected the same. He wrote plays such as Prahlada(1886) and Satya Harischandra (1886). [2] He published a novel Rajasekhara Charitamu in 1880, originally serialised in Viveka Chandrika from 1878.

  6. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    With the speedy passage of the Indian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on 14 August 1947 Pakistan was declared a separate nation. Then at 12:02 A.M., on 15 August 1947 India became a sovereign and democratic nation. Eventually, 15 August became Independence Day for India marking the end of British India.

  7. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Hindi literature (Hindi: हिंदी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awadhi and Marwari.

  8. Revolutionary movement for Indian independence - Wikipedia

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    The Revolutionary movement for Indian Independence was part of the Indian independence movement comprising the actions of violent underground revolutionary factions. Groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category, as opposed to the generally peaceful civil disobedience movement spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi.

  9. History of Andhra Pradesh - Wikipedia

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    Timeline; 1947 CE - present 1947 India becomes independent: 1953 Andhra State is created by separating Telugu-speaking regions of the Madras State. 1956 According to the States Reorganization Act, the Telugu-speaking regions of Hyderabad State and the Andhra State were merged to create Andhra Pradesh (United). 2014