Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru
Rabindranath Tagore
Eminent Personalities Associated with Modern India
Abanindranath Tagore
Acharya Narendra Dev
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray
Achyut S. Patwardhan
Ajit Singh
A.K. Fazlul Haq
Allan Octavian Hume
Alluri Sitaramaraju
Amir Chand
Amritlal Vithalal Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa)
Ananda Mohan Bose
Annie Besant
Aruna Asaf Ali
Asaf Ali
Asutosh Chaudhuri
Asutosh Mukhopadhyay
Badruddin Tyabji
Baliram Keshavrao Hedgewar
Balwant Wasudev Phadke
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay
Barindrakumar Ghosh
Begum Safia Abdul Wajid
Behramji M. Malabari
Bhagat Singh
Bhai Balmukund
Bhai Parmanand
B.R. Ambedkar
Bhulabhai Desai
Bipin Chandra Pal
Bir Singh
Chakravarthi Vijiaraghavachariar
Champakaraman Pillai
Chapekar Brothers (Balkrishna Chapeka, Damodar
Chapekar, Vasudev Chapekar)
Chandra Shekhar Azad
Charles Freer Andrews
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai
C.R. Das
C.Y. Chintamani
Dadabhai Naoroji
David Hare
Dayananda Saraswati
Dhondo Keshav Karve
Dinabandhu Mitra
Durgabai Deshmukh
E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Gaganendranath Tagore
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar
Gopabandhu Das
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Gopalhari Deshmukh Lokhitwadi
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Govind Ballabh Pant
Hakim Ajmal Khan
Har Bilas Sarda
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Indulal Yajnik
Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
Jadunath Sarkar
Jadonang
Jamnalal Bajaj
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jatindranath Das
Jatindranath Mukherji
Jitendra Mohan Sengupta
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
Jyotiba Phule
Jyotirmoyee Ganguli
Kailash Nath Katju
Kalpana Dutt
Kanahiyalal Manaklal Munshi
Kandukuri Viresalingam
Kasturba Gandhi
Keshub Chandra Sen
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Khudiram Bose
Lakshminath Bezbarua
Lala Hardyal
Lala Lajpat Rai
Liaquat Ali Khan
Lokmanya Tilak
M.A. Ansari
Madam Bhikaji Cama
Madan Lal Dhingra
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Madeleine Slade (Mira Behn)
Madhav Srihari Aney
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Mahadev Desai
Manabendra Nath Roy
Manindranath Banerji
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Margaret Elizabeth Noble (Sister Nivedita)
Matangini Hajra
Maulana Mohammad Ali
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Mohanlal Ghose
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
M. Venkatakrishnaiah
Motilal Nehru
Muhammad Iqbal
Mukund Ramarao Jayakar
Naba Gopal Mitra
Nalini Sengupta
Nanibala Devi
Narayan Malhar Joshi
Narsimha Chintamani Kelkar
N. Gopalaswami Ayangar
Nilakantha Das
N. Kumaran Asan
P. Ananda Charlu
Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Pandita Ramabai
Pherozeshah Mehta
Pratap Singh Kairon
Preetilata Waddedar
Purushottamdas Tandon
Raja Rammohan Roy
Raja Mahendra Pratap
Rajendra Nath Lahiri
Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Ramana Maharshi
Rama Tirtha
Rajendra Prasad
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Ram Manohar Lohia
Ram Prasad Bismil
Rao Bahadur Satapathy Mudeliar
Ram Chandra Bharadwaj
Rani Gaidinliu
Rashbehari Bose
Rehana Tyabjee
Romesh Chandra Dutt
Sachchidananda Sinha
Sachindranath Sanyal
S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar
Saifuddin Kitchlew
S. Subramaniya Iyer
Sarojini Naidu
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Satya Pal
Satyendranath Basu
Shivram Rajguru
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
Sohan Lal Pathak
Sohan Singh Bhakna
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
Sri Narayana Guru
Subba Rao Pantulu
S. Satyamurti
Subhash Chandra Bose
Subramania Bharati
S. Srinivasa Iyengar
Surendranath Bannerjea
Surya Sen
Swami Saraswati Sahajanand
Swami Shraddhanand
Swami Vivekananda
Syed Ahmed Khan
Tanguturi Prakasam
Tej Bahadur Sapru
T.K. Madhavan
Udham Singh
Upendranath Brahmachari
Vallathol Narayana Menon
Verrier Elwin
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vinayak Narahari Bhave (Acharya Vinoba Bhave)
Vallabhbhai Patel
Vithalbhai Patel
V.O. Chidambaram Pillai
William Jones
Walchand Hirachand
Woomesh Chandra Bonnerjee
Dr. Zakir Hussain

Warren Hastings 1773-1785
Lord Cornwallis 1786-1793
Establishment of provincial courts of appeal and circuit.
Sir John Shore 1793-1798
Charter Act 1793
Battle of Kharda b/w Nizam and Marathas 1795
Lord Wellesley 1798-1805
Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System (1798), first with the
Nizam of Hyderabad.
Fourth Mysore War (1799)
Second Maratha War (1803-1805)
Took over the administration of Tanjore(1799), Surat(1800),
Carnatic(1801).
Treaty of Bassein(1801)
Sir George Barlow (1805-1807)
Vellore Mutiny 1806
Lord Minto I 1807-1813
Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809).
Lord Hastings 1813-1823
Indo Nepal war (1814-1816) and Treaty of Sagauli 1816
Third Maratha war(1817-1819), and the dissolution of Maratha
Confederacy and creation of Bombay Presidency 1818.
Strife with Pindaris(1817-1818)
Treaty with Sindhia (1817)
Establishment of Ryotwari system by Thomas Munro,governer of
Madras(1820).
Lord Amherst 1823-1828
Lord William Bentinck 1828-1835
Abolition of Sati and other cruel rites 1829.
Supression of thugi 1830
Establishment of perpetual friendship with Ranjeet Singh
Resolution of 1835, and educational reforms and introduction of English
as the official language.
Annexation of Mysore(1831),Coorg(1834) and Central Cachar(1834)
Abolition of provincial courts of appeal and circuit set up by Cornwallis,
appointment of commissioners of revenue of circuit.
Lord Metcalfe 1835-1836
Lord Auckland 1836-1842
Lord Ellenborough 1842-1844
Lord Hardinge I 1844-1848
Lord Dalhousie 1848-1856
Lord Canning 1856-1857
Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in
1857.
Revolt of 1857.
Viceroys
Lord Canning 1858-1862
Transfer of control from East India Company to Crown,the Govt. of India Act
1858.
White Mutiny by European troops in 1859.
Indian Councils Act of 1861.
Lord Elgin I 1862-1863
Wahabi Movement
Lord John Lawrence 1864-1869
Bhutan war 1865
Hight Courts at Bombay,Calcutta and Madras 1865.
Lord Mayo 1869-1872
Opening of Rajkot College in Kathiawar and the Mayo College at Ajmer for
political training of Indian princes.
Establishment of Statistical Survey of India
Introduction of State railways.
Establishment of Department of Agriculture and Commerce.
Lord Northbrook 1872-1876



Lord Lytton 1876-1880
Famine of 1876-1878,affecting Bombay,Madras,Mysore,Hyderabad,pasrt sof
central India and Punjab,appointment of Famine Commission under the
presidency of Richard Strachey(1878).
Royal Title act 1876, Queen Victoria assuming the title of Kaiser-i-Hind or
Queen Empress of India.
Vernacular Press Act 1878
Arms Act 1878
Second Afghan war 1878-80
Lord Ripon 1880-1884
Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act 1882.
First Factory Act (1881) to improve the labour conditions.
Continuation of Financial decentralisation.
Govt. resolution on local self govt.(1882)
The Ilbert Bill Controversy.(1883-1884)
Rendition of Mysore.
Lord Dufferin 1884-1888
Third Burmese War 1885-1886
Establishment of Indian National Congress 1885.
Lord Lansdowne 1888-1894
Factory act 1891
Categorisation of Civil services into Imperial,Provisional and subordinate.
Indian Councils Act (1892).
Setting up of Durand Commission to define the Durand Line b/w India and
Pakistan(now b/w Pakistan and Afghanistan).
Lord Elgin II 1894-1899
Lord Curzon 1899-1905
Appointment of Police Commission 1902 to review Police Administration
under Sir Andrew Frazer and University Commission 1902 and Indian
Universities Act 1904.
Establishment of Dept. of Commerce and Industry.
Calcutta Corporation Act 1899.
Ancient monument Preservation Act 1904.
Partition of Bengal 1905.
Curzon-Kitchener controversy.
Younghusbands Mission to Tibet 1904.
Lord Minto II 1905-1910
Establishment of Muslim League by Aga Khan1906.
Lord Hardinge II 1910-1916
Establishment of Bengal Presidency 1911.
Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi 1911
Establishment of Hindu Mahasabha 1915 by Madan Mohan Malaviya.
Coronation durbar of King George V held in Delhi 1911.
Lord Chelmsford 1916-1921
1916
Formation of Home Rule Leagues by Annie Besant and Tilak.
Lucknow session of the Congress , Lucknow pact b/w Congress and Muslim
League
Foundation of Sabarmati Ashram 1916 after Gandhijis return, launch of
Champaran Satyagraha,foundation of Womens University.
Montagus August declaration 1917 and Govt. of India Act 1919.
Appointment of Saddlers commission 1917 for reforms in educational policy.
Launch of NonCooperation and Khilafat movement
Kheda Satyagraha and Ahmedabad Satyagraha 1918
Rowlatt Act 1919 , Jallianwala bagh Massacre 1919
Death of Tilak 1920
Appointment of S.P Sinha as governor of Bihar(first Indian to become a
governor).
Lord Reading 1921-1926
Moplah rebellion in Kerala 1921.
Chauri Chaura incident 1922 and the subsequent withdrawal of Non
Cooperation movement .
Establishment of Swaraj party by C.R.Das and Motilal Nehru 1922
Repeal of press act 1910 and the Rowlatt Act 1919.
Criminal Law Amendment Act and abolition of cotton excise.
Communal riots in Amritsar,Multan,Delhi,Aligarh,Arvi and Calcutta.
Karkori train robbery 1925.
Muder of Swamy Shraddhanand 1926.
Decision to hold simultaneous examinations for the ICS in Delhi and London
with effect from 1923.
Lord Irwin 1926-1931
Visit of Simon Commission 1928 and its boycott by Indians.
All Party Conference at Lucknow 1928 for suggestions for future Constitution
of India , Nehru report 1928.
Murder of Saunders,the assistant superintendent of Lahore police and Bomb
blast in Lahore assembly Hall and Lahore Conspiracy case and death of Jatin
das (1929) and bomb accident in train in Delhi 1929.
Lahore Session of Congress 1929,Poorna Swaraj Resolution 1930
Dandi March (march 2,1930) by Gandhi to launch Civil disobedience
Movement.
Deepavali declaration by Lord Irwin 1929.
Boycott of First Round Table Conference 1930,Gandhi-Irwin Pact 1931 and
suspension of Civil disobedience movement.
Lord Willingdon 1931-1936
Failure of Second Round Table conference and resumption of Civil
disobedience Movement.
Announcement of Communal award (1932) under which separate communal
electorates were set up.
Third Round table Conference 1932.
Fast unto death by Gandhi in yerawada prison , Poona act 1932.
Launch of Individual civil disobedience 1933.
Govt. of Indian Act 1935.
Establishment of All India Kisan Sabha 1936 and Congress Socialist Party by
Narendra Dev and JayaPrakash Narayan 1934
Burma separated from INDIA.
Lord Linlithgow 1936-1944
First general elections 1936-36 and Congress attained absolute majority.
Resignation of Congress ministries after the outbreak of Second World war
1939.
51
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session of Congress 1938 elected Subhash Chandra bose as president of
Congress and Bose resigned in 1939 and formed Forward Bloc 1939.
Lahore resolution 1940 by Muslim League and demand for a separate state for
Muslims.
August offer by Viceroy and its criticism by congress and endorsement by
Muslim League.
Winston Churchll elected as the PM of England.
Formation of Indian National Army 1941 after the escape of Sbhash Chandra
Bose 1941.
Cripps Mission to offer dominion status to INDIA and its rejection by Congress.
Quit India Movement 1942,Outbreak of August Revolution after the arrest of
National Leaders.
Divide and Quit slogan at Karachi session 1944 of the Muslim League.
Lord Wavell 1944-1947
Failure of Gandhi-Jinnah talks 1944.
Wavell Plan and Shimla Conference 1942.
End of Second World War 1945.
Proposals of Cabinet Mission 1946 and its acceptance by the Congress.
Observance of Direct Action Day August 16,1948 by the Muslim League.
Formation of Interim Govt. by Congress after the elections to Constituent
Assembly.
Announcement of end of British Rule in India by ClementAttlee (PM of
England) on Feb 20,1947.
Lord Mountbatten 1947-1948
Introduction of Indian Independence Bill in the House of Commons.
Appointment of two boundary commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff for the
partition of Bengal and Punjab.