Month: August 2025

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, occurred on 13 April 1919, when troops under Brigadier-General Reginald ...

Mahatma Gandhi permanently returned to India on 9 January 1915, landing at Apollo Bunder in Bombay (now Mumbai), after over ...

The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was founded on 30 December 1906 at Dacca (now Dhaka) to politically represent Muslim interests ...

The Partition of Bengal, announced by Viceroy Lord Curzon and brought into effect on 16 October 1905, divided the vast ...

The founding of the Indian National Congress (INC) in late 1885 created the first countrywide political platform for Indians to ...

The establishment of the British Raj in 1858 formalized the transfer of power from the British East India Company to ...

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a widespread, violent uprising against the rule of the British East India Company, beginning ...

The annexation of Punjab in 1849 marked the definitive end of the Sikh Empire and its absorption into the British ...

Tipu Sultan was killed on 4 May 1799 during the storming of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna), the climactic action of the Fourth ...

The Battle of Buxar, fought on 22–23 October 1764 near Buxar on the Ganges in western Bihar, decisively pitted the ...