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