Friday, July 19, 2013

WARS & Treaties during British period

War
Year
Treaty
Gov General
Battles et al
Anglo Marathas




First
1775-82
Began: Treaty of Surat
End: Treaty of Salbai
Warren Hastings
Battle of Wadgaon
Second
1803-05
Began: treaty of Bassein
Lord Wellesley
Battle of Assaye
Third
1816-19
Treaty of Gwalior
Marquess  of Hastings
Battle of Pindari
End of Peshwa rule





Anglo French




First
1746-48
Treaty of Aix-la-Chepelle
Reason: Austrian succession in Europe
1746: Battle of Adyar/San Thome
Second
1749-54

War of succession between Nasir Jung (English) and Muzaffar Jung (French) after death of Nizam
1749: Battle of Ambur

Rise of Robert Clive
Third
1758-63
Treaty of Paris
Reason: 7 years war in Europe
1760: Battle of Wandiwash (French defeat)





Anglo Mysore




First
1766-69



Second
1780-1784
Treaty of Mangalore
Warren Hastings
After death of Hyder Ali in 1782 Tipu led the war
Third
1789-92
Treaty of Seringapatnam
Cornwallis
Defeat of Tipu
Fourth
1799

Wellesley
Battle of Seringapatnam. Death of Tipu.





Anglo Sikh War




First
1845-46
Treaty of Lahore
Hardinge

Second
1848-49

Dalhousie
Final Subjugation of the Sikhs

1806 – Treaty of Raighat – Peace with Holkars



Litterateurs
Poet/Writer
Language
Work
Kanchan Nambiar
Malayalam

Tayaumanavar
Tamil
(Sittar poet)
Dayaram
Gujarati

Warris Shah
Punjabi
Heer Ranjha
Shah Abdul Latif
Sindhi
Risalo
Sachal, Siami
Sindhi


Education in India


1781 – Calcutta Madarsah by Hastings
1791 – Sanskrit College, Varanasi: Jonathan Duncan
1813 – Charter Act directed the Company to spend a sum of Rs. 1 lakh on education
1817 – Hindu College by David Hare & RM Roy; 1825 – Vedanta College, RM Roy
1835 – Macaulay’s minute
1854 – Wood’s Dispatch: asked the govt to assume the responsibility for the education of the masses


Gopal Hari Deshmukh was a religious reformer in Western India and was popularly known as ‘Lokahitwadi’
Separate electorates were introduced  by the Morley Minto Reforms of 1909
Dyarchy was introduced by the Montford reforms of 1919
Timeline of Satyagraha: Champaran (1917) – Ahmedabad Mill Strike (1918) – Kheda (1918)
1927 – Butler commission to review the centre state relations
1934 – Congress Socialist Party: Acharya Narendra Dev and JP
1936 – All India Kisan Sabha: Swami Sahajanand Saraswati



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