Modern Indian Historical Figures

The Indian National Congress was formed in 1885. Lord Dufferin served as the Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1884 to 1888.

Sir Thomas Roe was sent as an ambassador to the court of Emperor Jahangir by King James I of England in 1615. His mission was to secure trading rights for the East India Company.

Lord William Bentinck, with the support of Thomas Babington Macaulay, officially adopted English as the medium of instruction in higher education through the English Education Act of 1835.

The Simon Commission visited India in 1928 to report on the political situation. Lord Irwin was the Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931.

Banda Singh Bahadur was a Sikh military commander who led a campaign against the Mughal Empire. He was captured and executed in Delhi in 1716 by the order of the Mughal Emperor Farrukh Siyar.

King George V visited India in 1911 for the Delhi Durbar. At that time, Lord Hardinge was the Viceroy of India.

Gandhi traveled to London, Britain, to study law at the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1891.

Chandigarh was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who was commissioned by the Indian government to plan the city.

The Treaty of Srirangapatnam was signed in 1792 following the Third Anglo-Mysore War. It was concluded between Tipu Sultan and the British forces led by Lord Cornwallis.

Sir Cyril Radcliffe was the chairman of the Boundary Commissions tasked with demarcating the border between India and Pakistan in 1947. The resulting line is known as the Radcliffe Line.

Sir Thomas Elmhirst was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Indian Air Force after independence, serving from 1947 to 1950.

The Indian National Army (INA) was originally formed by Rash Behari Bose in 1942, before being handed over to Subhash Chandra Bose.

The Ryotwari system was introduced by Thomas Munro and Alexander Read in the late 18th century. It involved direct tax collection from the cultivators (ryots).