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1600 CE - 1874 CE: The East India Company is active in South Asia and China.
1757 CE: The East India Company begins to control its own territory in India.
1767 CE - 1799 CE: The four Anglo-Mysore Wars see the East India Company expand its territories in India.
1798 CE: Hyderabad becomes the first of many Indian princely states to become a protectorate of the East India Company.
1845 CE - 1849 CE: The two Anglo-Sikh Wars further increase the territories of the East India Company.
1857 CE - 1858 CE: The Sepoy Mutiny (aka The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) against the East India Company.
1858 CE: The British state takes full possession of East India Company territories in India.
1877 CE: Queen Victoria is delcared Empress of India.
1903 CE: Rulers of the Indian princely states pay homage to King Edward VII at the Delhi durbar.
1911 CE: Rulers of the Indian princely states pay homage to King George V at the Delhi durbar.
1921 CE: The British Raj forms the Chamber of Princes where rulers of the Indian princely states are represented.
1947 CE: The Indian Princely States are formally abosrbed into the states of either India or Pakistan.