MODERN HISTORY OF INDIA (Railway) – Part -3

East India company also known as John company.

It went on to act as a parttrade organization, partnation state and reap vast profits from overseas trade with India, China, Persia and Indonesia for more than two centuries.

• It was founded in Dhaka, British India (now in Bangladesh).

The Asiatic Society had the support and encouragement of Warren Hastings, the governor general (1772-85) of Bengal.

• The assassination was carried out in London in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O'Dwyer was responsible.

• The mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior leftwing politician and government minister in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

• The newspaper was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement

• The editors of Kesari included Agarkar, Chiplunkar and Tilak.

• Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the Father of civil service in India'.

• Cornwallis introduced two divisions of the Indian Civil service covenanted and uncovenanted.

• It was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

• The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919, for which O'Dwyer was responsible.