📚 Modern Indian History: Start and End Points

✅ Start Point:

AD 1707 – Death of Aurangzeb

• Marks the decline of the Mughal Empire.
• Leads to rise of regional powers and European trading companies.
• Sets the stage for British colonization.

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✅ End Point:

AD 1947 – Indian Independence

• India gains freedom from British rule on 15 August 1947.
• Partition of India into India and Pakistan also happens.

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🧭 Modern History Covers:

1. Decline of Mughals and rise of regional kingdoms
2. Advent of Europeans – Portuguese, Dutch, English, Danish, French, etc.
3. British conquest of India
4. Economic, social and cultural impacts of colonial rule
5. Revolt of 1857
6. Socio-religious reform movements
7. Rise of Indian nationalism
8. Freedom movements (1885–1947)
9. Gandhian phase and partition

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🕰️ Trick to Remember:

1707 to 1947 = Modern India (240 years of transformation)