GOVERNOR - GENERAL VICEROY

1773 - 1785 Warren Hastings 1856 - 1862 Canning

1786 - 1793 Cornwallis
1862 - 1863 Elgin I
1793 - 1798 John Shore
1864 - 1869 John Lawrence
1798 - 1805 Wellesley
1869 - 1872 Mayo
1805 - 1807 George Barlow
1872 - 1876 North Book
1807 - 1813 Minto I
1876 - 1880 Lytton
1813 - 1823 Francis Hastings
1880 - 1884 Ripon
1823 - 1828 Amherst
1884 - 1888 Dufferin
1828 - 1835 William Bentinck

1888 - 1894 Lansdowne

1835 - 1836 Metcalfe
1894 - 1899 Elgin II
1836 - 1842 Auckland
1899 - 1905 Curzon
1842 - 1844 Ellenborough
1905 - 1910 Minto II
1844 - 1848 Hardinge I
1910 - 1916 Hardinge II
1848 - 1856 Dalhousie

1916 - 1921 Chelmsford

1856 - 1862 Canning
1921 - 1926 Reading
1926 - 1931 Irwin
1931 - 1936 Willingdon

1936 - 1943 Linlithgow

1943 - 1947 Wavell
1947 - 1948 Mountbatten
1885 Bombay W C Bonnerjee 1st session attended by 72 delegates
1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji National Congress and National Conference
1887 Madras Syed Bahruddin Tyabji Appeal made to Muslims to join hands with other National leaders
1888 Allahabad George Yule 1st English President

1896 Calcutta Rahimtullah M Sayani Vande Matharam sung for 1st time

1905 Benares Gopalakrishna Gokhale Expressed resentment against the POB

1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Goal of INC was declared as ‘Self-Government’ or ‘Swaraj’
1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh Party splits into Extremists and Moderates
1908 Madras Previous session continued
1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya Indian Councils Act 1909

1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Dar Jana Gana Mana sung for 1st time

1914 Madras Bhupendra Nath Basu

1915 Bombay SP Sinha AB failed to get her HRL scheme approved by INC
1916 Lucknow AC Mazumdar Lucknow Pact, Join session with Muslim League
1917 Calcutta Annie Besant 1st women President of INC
1918 Bombay Syed Hasan Imam Contended Montagu-Chelmsford reform & demanded effective Self
government
Delhi Madan Mohan Malaviya

1920 Calcutta Lala Lajpat Rai Approved NCM

Nagpur Vijayaragavachariar Endorsed NCM; Attainment of Swaraj through peaceful and
legitimate means set as goal; CWC, PCC and Ward committee
formed
1921 Ahmedabad Hakim Ajmal Khan Approved Gandhi as sole authority on further movements of INC
(acting for C.R.Das)
1922 Gaya C R Das Swarajist Proposal Rejected;
C.R.Das & ML Nehru formed Swarajist Party
1924 Belgaum M K Gandhi Swarajist & No Changers - Agreement
1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu 1st Indian Women President

1927 Madras MA Ansari Decided to boycott Simmon commission

Snap resolution passed - Complete Independence as goal
1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru All India Youth Congress formed
1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru Boycott of RTC; Resolution for Poorna Swaraj; CDM for complete
(Apr) independence to be launched; 26 Jan to be observed as
Independence Day
1930 No Session
1931 Karachi Vallabhai Patel Gandhi - Irwin Pact endorsed; Gandhi nominated to attend 2nd
(Mar) RTC; Reiterated Poorna Swaraj; Resolution on Fundamental
Rights; Resolution on Notional Economic Progress

1933 Calcutta Nellie Sengupta 1st Anglo Indian President

1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru

1937 Faizpur 1st session to be held in village
(July)
1938 Haripura Subash Chandra Bose National Planning Committee set up under Nehru
(Feb)
1939 Tripuri Bose was elected but had to resign, since Gandhi supported
(March) Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Instead Rajendra Prasad was appointed
1940 Ramgarh Abul Kalam Azad

1941 - 1945 No Session - Because of arrest

1946 Meerut Acharya Kripalani Last session before Independence

1948 Jaipur Pattabhi Sitaramaya First session after Independence
 VII. NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1905 - 1918)
(12) Era of Militant Nationalism (1905 - 1909)
(13) I Phase of Revolutionary activities (1907 - 1917)
(14) First World War & Nationalist Response
Revolutionary Phase I
1879 1st revolutionary activity in
Maharashtra - Ramosai Peasant Force
1893 Ganapathi Festival
1896 Sivaji Festival
1897 Murder of Rand by Chapekar brothers
1899 Boer War 1899 Mithra Mela - organized by VD
Savarkar
1902 1st revolutionary groups were organized
in Midnapore (under Jnanendranath
Basu) and in Calcutta (Anushilan
Samiti)
1903 Dec Govt deci. of POB - made public
1904 Mitra Mela merged with Abhinav
Bharat
1905 Jul Announcement of POB 1905 Home Rule Society - London
7 Aug Calcutta town hall meeting -
boycott resolution passed
(formal proclamation of
Swadeshi movement)
Sept Burn cmpny protest - Howrah
16 Oct Formal commencement of POB
1906 1906 Apr ‘Yugantar’ weekly - started by
inner circle (BKG and BD) within
Anushilan Samithi
Jul East India Railway Strike
15 Aug Nat. Council of Educ. - formed
Oct Shimla Deputation of Muslim
leaders met Viceroy Minto
30 Dec All India Muslim League
(AIML) - founded in Dhaka
1907 Surat Split - INC 1907 Yugantar group attempted Fuller
Dec Andrew Fraser - Train derail
1908 Tilak - jailed for 6 years for writing in 1908 Apr Muzaffarpur bomb case
favour of Muzaffarpur bomb case in his Alipore conspiracy case
newspaper Kesari.
Barrah Dacoity - Pulin Das
1909 Minto - Morley Reforms 1909 Curzon Wyille Assasn. - London
Nashik Conspr. - AMT Jackson
Feb Public Prosecutor shot dead - at
Calcutta
1910 Nashik conspr. case - VDS deport
Feb DSP Assassination - Calcutta
1911 Annulment of POB 1911 Swadesh Sewak Home -Vancouver
Capital shift to Delhi United India House - USA
Dec Delhi Darbar (3rd Darbar) Dec Delhi Darbar, George V
1912 Balkan Wars 1912 Dec Delhi Bomb Case
1913 Ghadar Party
1914 Jun Tilak - released 1914 Jun Tilak - released
Sep Komagata reached Calcutta
Berlin Committee - Germany
1915 Early 1915’s - Annie Besant launched 1915 Jan Dacoity - Punjab
campaign to demand self government 15 Singapore Mutiny
for India after war. Feb
21 Ghadar Mutiny (Feb Mutiny) -
Feb Planned for armed revolt by
Ghadarites
Mar Defence of India Act
Sep Bagha Jatin killed
1916 Apr Tilak League - started
Sep Annie League - started
Dec Lucknow Session of INC -
Moderates and Extremist joined
Lucknow Pact - b\w INC & ML
1917 Russian Revolution
Jun Annie - arrested
20 August Declaration (Montagau
Aug Statement) - one of the reason for
failure of HRL
Sep Annie - released
1917 to 1918 - Communal Riots
1918 July Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms
Aug Spl. Session of INC in Bombay -
M-C reforms were declared as
disappointing & unsatisfactory
and demanded effective self govt.
1919 Mar Rowlatt Act - passed
Dec GOI Act 1919 - passed
VIII. ERA OF MASS NATIONALISM (1919-39)
(15) Emergence of Gandhi
(16) Non Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Aandolan
(17) Revolutionary Phase II
Revolutionary Phase II
1893 Gandhi went to South Africa
1894 to 1906 - Moderate Phase of Gandhi
Phase of Satyagraha (1906 - 1914)
1. Protest against Transvaal migration
2. Campaign against restriction on Indian
migration
3. Campaign against poll tax imposed
4. Campaign against invalidation of Indian
marriage
5. Sathyagraha against registration
certificate
1915 Gandhi returned to India
1917 Champaran Sathyagraha - 1st CDM 1917 Russian Revolution
1918 Ahmedabad Mill strike - 1st Hun strike
World War I ended (11 Nov)
Kheda Sathyagraha - 1st NCM
1919 Early 1919’s - Khilafat Committee 1919 Mar Communist International (3rd
Mar Rowlatt Act - passed International) - founded

Sathyagraha Sabha - formed

6 Apr MKG plan to Rowl. Satyagraha
9 Apr Arrest of S. Kitch & Sat. Pal
10 Apr Indian masses - protest
13 Apr Jallianwalla Massacre
18 Apr Withdrawl of Rowl. Satyagraha
14 Oct Hunter Committee
Indemnity Act - passed
Nov All India Khilafat Conf. - Delhi
1920 Feb Hin-Musl deputation to Viceroy 1920
Gandhi Announcement
May Treaty of Sevres with Turkey
Jun All Party Conf. - Allahabad Jul II Conference of Commintern
1 Aug Tilak - Died
31 Aug Khilaf. Comm. - NCM Launch
Sept Spl. session of INC in Calcutta
 Approval of NCM Oct CPI founded - in Tashkent (Uzb)
Dec Nagpur Session of INC AITUC formed - in Delhi
Endorse of NCM
1921 to 1922 - Unprecedented popular upsurge
1921 May Gandhi & Reading Talk
Jul Ali brothers - call in Army
Nov Prince of Wales visit to India
Dec Gov repression over NCM
1922 1 Feb Bardoli Resolution - Gandhi
5 Feb Chauri Chaura Incident
Feb Withdrawal of NCM
Mar Gandhi - arrested
Nov Mustafa Kamal Pasha
Dec Gaya Session - Swarajist Party
formed by CR Das & M Nehru
1923 Sept Delhi Meeting - Compromise 1923 1st May Day celebrated - in Madras
Oct Swarajist Election - Manifesto
Nov Swarajist won election
1924 Feb Gandhi - released 1924 Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy case
Dec Belgaum Session of INC - HRA formed - in Kanpur (Oct)
Gandhi presided Calcutta Pol. Comm. - Assasin. attempt
1925 Death of Chittaranjan Das 1925 All India Communist Confer - Kanpur
Vithali Bhai Patel - Speaker of CLA Kakori Train Robbery (Aug) - by HRA
1926 Mar One group withdraw Legis. 1926 Punjab Naujawan Bharat Sabha -
whereas another group founded by Bhagat Singh
contested in Election
1928 Sep HRA into HSRA
30 Oct LLR attacked
Dec Saundres Murder
1929 Mar Meerut Conspiracy case
8 Apr Bomb in CLA - by BS and BD
Dec Bomb in Irwin’s Train - by Azad
1930 Violence in Punjab & UP
Apr Chittagong Armoury Raid
1931 CS Azad died - in Allah. Park
23 Mar BS, SD, RG - Hanged
Dec School girl murder Dist. Magis.
1932 Feb Bina Das Shot Governor
1933 Feb Surya Sen - Arrested
1934 Jan Surya Sen - Hanged
 (18) Simmon Commission & Nehru Report (19) CDM & RTC
1923 Lee Commission Jul Irwin announcement - RTC
1924 Mudiaman Commission and Dominion status

1926 Linlithgow Commission Aug Yerawada Jail meet

1927 Nov Simmon Commission - formed Nov I RTC - begins

Dec Delhi Proposal of Musl. League 1931 25 Jan Gandhi + CWC - released

Madras Session of INC Jan I RTC - ended

1928 Feb Simmon Comm. came India 5 Mar Delhi Pact (Gandhi-Irwin Pact)

Sub committee under Motilal 23 Mar Bhagat Singh - hanged

Nehru - to draft Constitution 29 Mar Karachi Spl Session of INC
May All Party Conference Sep II RTC - begins
Aug Nehru Report - finalized Dec II RTC - ended
Dec All Party Conference - Calcutta 29 Dec II CDM - resumed
Calcutta Session of INC 31 Dec Willing refused to meet Gandhi
Independence for India League 1932 4 Jan Gandhi - arrested
- formed in opposition to 16 Aug Communal Award
Nehru Report
Sep All India anti-untouchability
1929 Gandhi Travel League - setup by Gandhi
Foreign Cloth Boycott 20 Sep Gandhi fasting - to oppose
Committee - organized by CWC Communal Award
Mar Jinnah’s 14 points 24 Sep Poona Pact
May Ramsay MacDonald (Labour Nov III RTC - begins
Party) - become PM of Britain
Dec III RTC - ended
Wedgewood Benn - become
1933 Jan Harijan newspaper - by Gandhi
Secretary of State for India
8 Jan Temple Entry Day - observed
31 Oct Irwin Declaration
Mar White paper - RTC reforms
2 Nov Delhi Manifesto - issued by
Aug Gandhi - released
prominent National Leaders
Nov Harijan Tour - begins
Dec Bomb on Irwin’s Train
Rejection of ‘DM’ by Irwin 1934 Apr II CDM - withdraw
July Harijan Tour - ended
Lahore Session of INC
Aug Temple entry bill - defeated by
31 Dec Hoist of National flag - J Nehru
Government
1930 26 Jan Independence Pledge
1935 Feb Draft bill of joint selection
Jan 11 demands of Gandhi
committee
12 Mar Dandi March - begin (CDM)
Jul GOI Act, 1935
6 Apr Dandi March - end (Violation of
Salt law)
Apr Nehru - arrested
May Gandhi - arrested
Simmon Report - published
 (20) Aftermath of CDM (21) Congress rule in Province
1934 Apr II CDM withdrawal
May AICC Meeting at Patna - Parliamentary Board formed
Oct Gandhi resigned from INC
Nov CLA Election - INC won 42 out of 75 seats reserved for Indians
1935 Jul GOI Act, 1935 - passed
1937 Feb Elections were held in 11 Provinces - INC won 716 out of 1161 seats it
contested
1938 Pirpur committee - by Muslim League
National Planning Committee - setup under Subash Chandra Bose
Bombay Traders Dispute Act
1939 23 Oct INC Ministers resigned in all Provinces
 IX. TOWARDS FREEDOM (1939 - 1947)
(22) Nationalist response in wake of World War II
1938 Feb Haripura Session of INC - Presided by NSB
National Planning Committee - setup under NSB
1939 Mar Tripuri Session of INC - NSB again elected as President
Apr NSB resigned from Presidentship of INC
May Forward Bloc - within INC
9 Jul NSB call for All India protest against AICC resolution
Aug NSB was removed from presidency of Bengal Congress Committee
1 Sep Germany attacked Poland
3 Sep Britain declared war against Germany
10 Sep CWC meeting at Wardha - Wardha resolution
17 Oct Linlithgow Statement
23 Oct Resignation of Congress Ministers
1940 Mar Ramgarh Session of INC
Lahore Session of Muslim League - Pakistan resolution passed
Anti-compromise Conference - at Ramgarh convened NSB
6 Apr Worldwide struggle - organized by NSB
Jul NSB arrested - for Sathyagraha against proposed monument for Holwell in
Calcutta
Aug August Offer - by Linlithgow
Oct Individual Sathyagraha - launched by Gandhi
Dec NSB was released and placed under house arrest
1941 2 Apr NSB reached Berlin (Azad Hind Fauj & Azad Hind Radio - founded)
Jun Russia joined Allied force
Jul Executive Council for Viceroy - enlarged (as per August Offer)
National Defence Council - formed
Dec INC leaders released (who were arrested during individual Sathyagraha)
Malay campaign of Japan - started
1942 Jan Malay campaign of Japan - ended
NSB made regular broadcast in Azad Hind Radio from Berlin
Mar Japan reached Rangoon in Burma
Cripps Mission to India - to seek India’s support for war
 (23) QIM, Demand for Pakistan and INA
IIL, INA and NSB
1928 Indian Independence League (IIL) -
founded in various part of SE Asia
1940 Mar Anti-comp. Conf. - at Ramgarh
6 Apr Worldwide struggle - launched
Jul NSB arrested - for Sathyagraha
Dec NSB under house arrest
1941 Jan NSB escaped from India
26 Jan NSB at Peshawar
Jun Russia joined Allied force
Dec Malay campaign of Japan
1942 1942 Jan
Mar Tokyo Conference of IIL
Jun Bangkok Conference of IIL - IIL
was constituted
14 Jul CWC meeting at Wardha - Quit 14 Jul CWC meeting at Wardha - Quit
India Resolution passed India Resolution passed
8 Aug Quit India resolution was 8 Aug Quit India resolution was
ratified at INC meeting at ratified at INC meeting at
Bombay Bombay
9 Aug Mass arrest of INC Leaders
Declaration of AICC, CWC, PCC
as unlawful
INC Committee Session -
presided by Aruna Asaf Ali
Sept Indian National Army - formed
by Mohan Singh
Dec Indian National Army -
dissolved by Mohan Singh
1943 1943 Feb INA placed under IIL
23 Mar Pakistan Day - celebrated
Famine of 1943 Jun NSB meet Japan PM
Jul NSB reached Singapore and
assumed the leadership of IIL
and INA
25 Aug NSB become Sup.Comm of INA
21 Oct Provisional Gov for Free India
(Azad Hind) - formed by NSB at
Singapore
23 Oct AH declare war against Britain
6 Nov A&N island given to INA by Jap
1944 1944 Jan INA HQ was shifted to Rangoon
Mar INA participated in Japanese
attack of NE India
Mar C R Formula 18 Mar INA crossed Burma border and
Desi - Liaqat Pact entered India

14 Apr Bahadur group of INA reached

Moirang (Manipur) and Colonel
Shaukat Ali Malik hoisted flag
there.
For 3 months - INA conducted military
administration at Moirang
6 Jul NSB called Gandhi as ‘Father
of Nation’ in Azad Hind Radio
18 Jul Withdrawal of Japanese from
Indian border
1945 14 Jun Wavell Plan 1945
15 Aug Complete surrender of Japan
in WW II
18 Aug NSB died in flight crash
Nov Red Fort Trials
1946 May
 (24) Post war national scenario (25) Independence with partition
1945 Jun Wavell Plan of Conservative Govt - failed to break the constitutional deadlock
Jul Labour Party formed Govt in Britain - Clement Atlee as PM of Britain and
Pethick Lawrence as Secretary of State for INdia
Aug Election to CLA & PLA - announced
Sept Announcement - 1. Constituent Assembly would be convened after election
2. Govt was working according to spirit of Cripps offer
World War II - ended
Bombay session of INC - Congress supported INA prisoners
Nov 1st INA Trial at Red Fort - PKS, SNK, GSD
INA Week celebrated (5 Nov to 11 Nov)
12 Nov INA day celebrated
21 Nov Upsurge in Calcutta over INA trial
1946 11 Feb Upsurge in Calcutta over sentence to Rashid Ali
18 Feb Royal Indian Navy Strike - in Bombay
Feb Cabinet Mission - formed
15 Mar Clement Atlee statement
24 Mar Arrival of Cabinet Mission
May Cabinet Mission Plan
6 Jun Muslim League accepted Cabinet Plan
24 Jun INC accepted Cabinet Plan
Jul Election in province for Constituent Assembly
10 Jul Nehru Statement
29 Jul Muslim League - withdraw support to Cabinet plan and called for Direct Action
16 Aug Direct Action - Jinnah declared this day as ‘Direct Action Day’
2 Sep Interim Govt (dominated by Congress) headed by Nehru - formed
26 Oct Muslim League brought into interim Govt - by Wavell
9 Dec 1st Meeting of Interim Government
13 Dec Nehru moved “Objective Resolution”
1947 20 Feb Atlee Statement
10 Mar Nehru Statement
Apr Kripalani communicated Viceroy
3 Jun Mountbatten Plan - announced for transfer of power
5 Jul British Parliament passed - India Independence Act based on Mountbatten Plan
18 Jul India Independence Act - got royal assent
14 Aug Pakistan got independence - as per India Independence Act 1947
15 Aug India got independence - as per India Independence Act 1947
All states except Kashmir, Hyderabad, and Junagarh had signed an Instrument
of Accession with the Indian government
 INITIAL PHASE
1740 I Carnatic
1749 II Carnatic
1757 Plassey
1758 III Carnatic
1759 Chinsura
1764 Buxar

INTERIOR PHASE
1767 I Mysore
1774 I Rohillas
1775 I Marathas
1780 II Mysore
1790 III Mysore
1794 II Rohillas
1799 IV Mysore
1803 II Marathas
1814 Nepalese
1817 III Marathas

FRONTIER PHASE
1824 I Burmese
1839 I Afghan
1843 Sindh
1845 I Sikh
1848 II Sikh
1852 II Burmese

1865 Bhutanese
1870 II Afghan
1885 III Burmese

20th CENTURY
1904 Tibet
1919 III Afghan