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Colonial India and Independence

Late colonial society, the machinery of empire, and the agitation that ended it.

• 1860–1870Colonial era Dhobi irons various Clothes using a Charcoal Iron
• 1932Imperial Police arrests members of the Bombay Provincial Congress Committee after they refuse to disband
• 1945An elephant pushes a loaded railroad car onto the tracks in Assam
• 1946Maharaja of Jaipur, Man Singh II, arrives in England by Flying Boat to attend the London Victory Day Celebrations
• 1946Muslim League protestors wave black flags at members of the first Cabinet of the Interim Government of India
• 1947British soldiers walk through Amritsar surveying the damage caused by rioting