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1497-98:
Vasco da Gama - Round Africa to India |
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1744-45:
Robert Clive reports his unhappiness in India to a cousin
in England (2-16) |
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1757: The
Battle of Plassey - Robert Clive |
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1757: Robert
Clive reports to his father on his victory over Sirajuddaulah (2-23) |
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1772: Robert
Clive's speech in the House of Commons reminiscing about the victory at
Plassey |
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1773: Regulating
Act |
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1784: Treaty
of Mangalore [between Tipu Sultan and the East India Company], 11 March |
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1793-94:
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An 18c Journey Through
India |
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1799:
Major Macquaries Journal of the Campaign & Capture of Seringapatam |
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1799:
Lachlan Macquarie's Letter from Seedapore |
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1809-1919: Treaties
and Agreements relating to Afghanistan [8 documents] |
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1820:
Raja
Rammohan Roy - On the Practice of Burning Widows Alive |
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1829: Lord
William Bentinck on the Suppression of Sati (11/8) |
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1833:
Government of India Act |
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1833: Thomas
Babington Macaulay, a member of the British Parliament, on India & the
Mughal Empire |
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1842-2002:
Over 200 documents on the India-Pakistani Conflict from my web page
on that topic |
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1845: Declaration
of War: Proclamation by the Governor General of India |
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1846:
Treaty between the British Government and the State of Lahore (at
mid-page) |
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1846: Treaty
between Maharaja Gulab Singh and the Government of India, 16 March |
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1846: Treaty
of Amritsar |
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1847:
"European
Bungalow in Ceylon" - painting by Andrew Nicholl |
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mid-19c:
On Empire and
Education - Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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1856:
The Earl of Dalhousie commenting on his administration of
India (2/28) |
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1857: An
Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, 1857 - Elisa
Greathed |
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1857: "British
India" by Charles Creighton Hazewell in Atlantic Monthly,
November |
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1857:
Charles Creighton Hazewell, "The Indian Revolt," in
Atlantic Monthly, December 1857 |
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1857: "Mind
and Attitude of the Indian Mutiny" in The Living Age, vol. 55,
issue 703 (November 14, 1857) |
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1857: "Misgovernment
of India" in The Living Age, vol. 55, issue 698 (October 10,
1857) |
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1857:
"Reconquest of India" in The Living Age, vol. 55,
issue 699 (October 17, 1857) |
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1858:
Government of India Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) |
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1858:
Petition from the East India Company to Parliament,
February |
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1858: Proclamation
by the Queen to the Princes, Chiefs, and the People of India, 1 November |
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1873:
Anthony Trollope on British Imperialism |
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1876:
Toru Dutt - Sonnet |
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1879: "The
English in India," by Thomas W. Knox in Harper's New Monthly Magazine,
vol. 58, issue 346 (March 1879) |
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late 19c:
Statistics for the late 19th century British India |
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1882: British
India and Its Rulers - Sir Henry Stewart
Cunningham, a British official in India |
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1884: "The
French in India" by R. W. Shackleton in The New Englander, vol.
43, issue 180 (May 1884) |
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1885: Formation
of the Indian National Congress |
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1886: "English
Rule in India" by Amrita Lal Roy in The North American Review,
vol. 142, issue 353 (April 1886) |
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1890-1914:
Treaties and Agreements relating to Tibet [11 documents] |
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1892:
"The Duty and Destiny of England in India" by Sir Edwin
Arnold in The North American Review, vol. 154, issue 423
(February 1892) |
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1892: George
Nathaniel Curzon speaks to the House of Commons on the Indian Councils
Bill, 28 March |
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1892:
William Ewart Gladstone speaks to the House of Commons on
the Indian Councils Bill, 28 March |
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1899:
"British Rule in India" by the Rev. D. D. Jones, J. P. in The North
American Review, vol. 168, issue 508 (March 1899)
(
Part II ) |
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1899: "White
Man's Burden" - poem by Rudyard Kipling |
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early 20c:
Important
Documents of the Ghadar Movement |
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1902: The
Economic Bases of Imperialism
- John Hobson |
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1907:
Address to the Indian National Congress -
Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
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1908:
The New Nationalist Movement in India - Jabez Sunderland in
The Atlantic Monthly, October |
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1908: Reflections
on the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - Vincent Arthur Smith, a British Civil
Servant in India |
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1909: Indian
Councils Act of 1909 (9 Edward 7, Chapter 4) |
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1909: Lord
Courtney of Penwith speaks to the House of Lords on the Government of
India Bill of 1909, 24 February |
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1909: Viscount
Morley of Blackburn speaks to the House of Lords on the Government of
India Bill of 1909, 23 February |
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1909: Indian
Home Rule - Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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1910-1960:
Sino-Indian Border Dispute Government Documents [10 documents]
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1915:
G. K. Gokhale's Political Testament |
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1916:
Lucknow Pact, December |
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1916:
Rabindranath Tagore - Once There Was a King |
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1918: Government
of India Notification, July |
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1918:
Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms by Edwin S.
Montagu and Lord Chelmsford |
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1919: Edwin
S. Montagu speaks to the House of Commons on the Government of India
Bill, 5 June |
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1919:
Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 101) |
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1919: Proclamation
by the King-Emperor on the Government of India Act, 23 December 1919 |
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1919:
Report of the Joint Select Committee on the Government of
India Bill, 17 November |
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1920: An
Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire |
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1920:
Text of Winston Churchill's July 8th, 1920, British House of Commons,
Amritsar Massacre Speech |
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1921: The
King-Emperor's Message to the Rulers of the Indian States on the
Inauguration of the Chamber of Princes, February |
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1932: To
His Jailers - Jawaharlal Nehru |
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1935: Government
of India Act |
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1940: Mr.
Jinah's Demand for a Separate Homeland for Muslims (3-22) |
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1941: Marxism,
Capitalism and Non-Alignment - Jawaharlal Nehru |
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1942:
Mohandas K. Gandhi'a speech (excerpts) to the All-India Congress, Bombay
(8-7) |
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1942: Orders
to American Military Forces in India (8-12) |
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1942:
Prime Minister Winston Churchill's announcement to the House of Commons
of Sir Stafford Cripps' Mission to India (March 11) |
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1942: Prime
Minister Churchill's Report to the House of Commons on the policy of the
British Government in India (9-10) |
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1942: Text
issued by the government of India of the original "Quit India"
resolution drafted by Mohandas K. Gandhi and rejected by the All-India
Congress Working Committee in favor of the modified version submitted by
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, The Gandhi Draft W |
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1946: British
Government Statement: Policy on India |
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1947: Muslim
League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947 - Compiled for
the SGPC by S. Girbachan Singh Talib |
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1947: Speech
On the Granting of Indian Independence - Jawaharlal Nehru
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