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India History Timeline: 1901 - 1950 |
Year | Rulers | War and Politics | Entertainment | Literature | Art and Architecture | Science and Technology | World | Historic Events / Personalities |
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1901-1905 | Governor-General of India : George Nathaniel Curzon (18991904) Arthur Russell (1904) George Nathaniel Curzon (19041905) |
The First Partition of Bengal (1905) | Birth of novelist, Mulk
Raj Anand (1905)
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Queen Victoria Dies (1901)
First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery (1903) Salvador Dali (Surrealism) born in Spain (1904) The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1905) |
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1906-1910 | Governor-General of India : Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (19051910) | Formation of Muslim League (1906) | Birth of Indian Novelist
R.K. Narayan (1906)
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Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.(1907) The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.(1907) More than 100,000 die in Sicilian earthquake (1908) Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole (1909) |
Birth of Bhagat Singh (1907) | |||
1911-1915 | Governor-General of India : Charles Hardinge (19101916) | The capital of India was moved from Calcutta to Delhi. (1911) | India's first feature film Raja Harishchandra was
made by Dadasaheb Phalke (1913)
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Rabindranath Tagore
won the Nobel Prize in Literature. (1913) |
The Gateway of India (1911)
Maqbool Fida Husain, the often controversial and well known Indian artist, popularly known as M F Husain born in Pandharpur (September 17, 1915) |
![]() Rabindranath Tagore: A Biographical Study |
Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras. (1912) More than 1500 die in sinking of Titanic (1912) World War I (1914-1918) Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City. (1915) |
Henry Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini junction which was the first flight in India. (1911 February 18) |
1916-1920 | Governor-General of India : Frederic John Napier Thesiger (19161921) | Jallianwala Bagh
Massacre (1919 April 13) The Khilafat Movement started (1920) |
First South Indian feature Keechaka Vadham by R Nataraja Mudaliar (1916) | Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.(1916) Russian Revolution (1917) World's first radio station opens in Britain (1920) International Court of Justice established at The Hague (1920) |
Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1920) | |||
1921-1925 | Governor-General of India : Rufus Isaacs (19211925) | Maplah (Muslim) rebellion in Malabar (1921) | Victoria Memorial
in Calcutta is completed (1921)
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The first robot built.(1921) Formation of the U.S.S.R. (1922) Walt Disney creates his first cartoon, "Alice's Wonderland" (1924)
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1926-1930 | Governor-General of India : Victor Bulwer-Lytton (19251926) George Joachim Goschen (1929) Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (19261931) |
Salt
March to Dandi (1930)
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The first Malayalam movie vigathakumaran was released (1928) | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect
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Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.(1926) The First Talking Movie, The Jazz Singer (1927) First color television is demonstrated (1928) First Mickey Mouse cartoon (1928) Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.(1930) Discovery of Planet Pluto (1930) |
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1931-1935 | Governor-General of India : Freeman Freeman-Thomas (19311936) | Second Round Table Conference (1931) | The first Indian talking film Alam Ara released
(1931)
One of the most successful early product of the studio system in India, Devdas, premieres (1935) |
Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.(1931) Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933) Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon(1935) |
Martyrdom of Bhagat Singh
(1931)
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1936-1940 | Governor-General of India :Victor Alexander John Hope (19361943) | Jawaharlal Nehru is elected president of the Indian National Congress (1936) | All India Radio established (1936)
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The first jet engine is built.(1937) Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.(1939) German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, demonstrate nuclear fission World War II (1939-1945) |
![]() Three Statesmen: Gokhale, Gandhi, And Nehru |
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1941-1945 | Governor-General of India : Archibald Wavell (19431947) | Quit India Movement called for by Gandhi (August 9 1942) |
![]() The Forgotten Woman: The Untold Story of Kastur Gandhi, Wife of Mahatma Gandhi |
All India Council for Technical Education is established. (1945) | Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.(1941) John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.(1942) Truman orders use of atomic bombs against Japan (1945) World War II ends (1945)United Nations is formed (1945) |
The Indian National Army (INA) was formed during World
War II by Indian nationalists and prisoners, led by Subhas
Chandra Bose (1942)
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1946-1950 | Governor-General of India :Louis Mountbatten (1947-1948) Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (19481950) First Prime Minister of independent India : Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964) |
Indian independence; India partitioned (1947) Integration of princely states (1948) Ceasefire in Kashmir; Enactment of Indian constitution (1949) India becomes a republic (1950) First President of India : Dr. Rajendra Parasad
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![]() Gandhi's Experiments With Truth: Essential Writings By And About Mahatma Gandhi |
Mobile phones first invented.(1947) First supersonic flight (1947) NATO Established (1949)
The Soviet Union detonates its first atomic device. |
Independence of India (August 15, 1947)
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