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  2. Colonial India - Wikipedia

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    The East India Company officers lived lavish lives, the company finances were in shambles, and the company's effectiveness in India was examined by the British crown after 1858. As a result, the East India Company lost its powers of government and British India formally came under direct Crown control, with an appointed Governor-General of ...

  3. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    Although these continental European powers were to control various regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they would eventually lose all their territories in India to the British, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port in Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of ...

  4. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    The first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who reached Calicut in 1498 in search of spice. [3] Just over a century later, the Dutch and English established trading outposts on the Indian subcontinent, with the first English trading post set up at Surat in 1613.

  5. Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    20th-century American historian Will Durant wrote about medieval India, "The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history." [ 136 ] In contrast, there are other historians such as American historian Audrey Truschke and Indian historian Romila Thapar , who claim that such views are unfounded or exaggerated.

  6. Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] Though the Muslim dynasties in India were diverse in origin, they were linked together by the Persianate culture and Islam. The height of Islamic rule was marked during the reign of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707), during which the Fatawa Alamgiri was compiled, which briefly served as the legal system of Mughal Empire. [6]

  7. Cornwallis in India - Wikipedia

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    British colonial administration was dominated in the 1760s and 1770s by Warren Hastings, the first man to hold the title of Governor-General. [7] The military arm of the East India Company was directed during the Seven Years' War and the Second Anglo-Mysore War by General Eyre Coote, who died in 1783 during the later stages of the war with ...

  8. List of Hindu empires and dynasties - Wikipedia

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    The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.

  9. Category:Colonial India - Wikipedia

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