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Explanation

The British government announced the Mountbatten Plan on June 3, 1947

The 3rd June Plan announced the partition of British India into 2 states:

• India
• Pakistan

Punjab and Bengal to be divided according to 3rd June Plan

This Plan also known as the Mountbatten Plan or Partition Plan 

It was the last plan for independence.

Explanation

The leader of the Khilafat movement is Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and Shaukat Ali

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was born in 10 December 1878

Muhammad Ali Jauhar was died in – 4 January 1931

Muhammad Ali Jauhar  a prominent member of the All-India Muslim League and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia

Shaukat Ali was an Indian Muslim member of the Khilafat Movement.

He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.

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related Question to the Khilafat movement:

The Khilafat movement was launched in the subcontinent in 1919 till 1924

The migration Movement was a part of the Khilafat Movement

Khilafat Movement come to an end in 1924

Khilafat Movement announced: Boycott of British goods, Non-Cooperation with the Government, No participation in victory celebrations.

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Explanation

• War of Plassey, (23 June 1757). Victory for the British East India company inside the war of Plassey become the start of nearly two centuries of British rule in India.
• For an occasion with such momentous effects, it turned into a fairly unimpressive military come across, the defeat of the Nawab of Bengal owing an awful lot to betrayal.
• In India, Britain turned into represented by the British East India enterprise, a challenge that have been given a royal charter in 1600 to pursue trade inside the East Indies that protected the right to shape its very own army.
• The French East India organization had a similar remit. From 1746, the rival agencies fought the Carnatic Wars for advantage in India, wherein they maintained trading posts, and sought impact over local rulers.

Explanation

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22/23 October 1764, between the forces under the command of the British East India Company.

Explanation

Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of India from 1847 to 1856.

He merged the state of Punjab with the British Empire, after the Second Anglo-Sikh War

while 

Lord Hastings was the Governor General of India when the Third Anglo-Maratha War took place

Third Anglo-Maratha War was the final and decisive conflict between the English East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

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Explanation

Indian Mutiny, also called Sepoy Mutiny or First War of Independence

Indian Mutiny was a widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59.

Location: Agra Delhi India Kanpur Lucknow

Participants: Mughal dynasty United Kingdom

ND5.3.2023

Explanation

• The Battle of Plassey was fought in north-eastern India on 23 June 1757.

  Troops of the British East India Company, led by Robert Clive, came up against the forces of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the last Nawab of Bengal, and his French allies

Explanation

Lord Canning was the first viceroy of India

Lord Mountbatten was the last viceroy of India

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Explanation

The British conquered Sindh in 1843 after their victory in the Battle of Miani.

The annexation of Sindh to British India was formalized through the signing of the Treaty of Annexation in 1847.

Explanation

•   European Nation Colonized India: England
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• India was colonized by the European nation of the United Kingdom.
• The European presence in India began roughly in the 17th Century
• when the power of India's ruling Mughal Empire began to decline
•  the Anglo-Saxons,  invaded and colonized England in the 5th and 6th centuries.