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5 days ago · The burning of foreign clothes in Mumbai showed the British just how resolved Indians were on swadeshi and swaraj. In 1921, Mumbai saw three significant bonfires of foreign garments, the first...
6 days ago · The first conflict between the British and the Marathas was the First Anglo-Maratha War which began in 1774 and resulted in the 1782 Treaty of Salbai, by which the island of Salsette, adjacent to Bombay island, was ceded to the British, while Bharuch was ceded to the Maratha ruler Scindia. The British annexed Surat in 1800.
2 days ago · The Company India ruled until 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Government of India Act 1858, the India Office of the British government assumed the task of directly administering India in the new British Raj.
4 days ago · Under the British, the city had served as the capital of Bombay Presidency (administrative province), and during the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was a centre of both Indian nationalist and South Asian regional political activity.
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3 days ago · The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal.
3 days ago · India - Nationalism, British, Resistance: The Indian National Congress (Congress Party) held its first meeting in December 1885 in Bombay city while British Indian troops were still fighting in Upper Burma.
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6 days ago · Recent News. Aug. 9, 2024, 3:05 AM ET (The Hindu) BJP dividing people while Rahul Gandhi uniting people: Jagga Reddy at anniversary celebrations of Quit India movement. Quit India Movement, mass protest movement during 1942–43 against the colonial British raj ’s political and military control of India.
