General Knowledge for SSC Exams (Important Battles the Indian History)

General Knowledge for SSC Exams (Important Battles the Indian History)

B.C.

 Battle

  • 326
Alexander defeated Porus in the Battle of tfydaspas.
  • 261
Ashoka defeated Kalinga in the Kalinga War.

A.D.

Battle

  • 712
Invastion of Sind by Mohd-bin-Qasim.
  • 1191
First Battle of Tarain in which Prithviraj Chauhan defeated Mohd. Ghori.
  • 1192
Second Battle of Tarain in which Mohd. Ghori defeated Prithviraj Chauhan.
  • 1194
Battle of Chhandwar in which Mohd. Ghori defeated Jaichand of Kannauj.
  • 1526
First Battle of Panipat in which Babar defeated Ibrahim Lodhi.
  • 1527
Battle of Khanua in which Babar defeated Rana Sanga.
  • 1529
Battle of Ghaghara in which Babar defeated the Afghans.
  • 1539
Battle of Chausa in which Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun.
  • 1540
Battle of Kannauj (or Bigram) in which Sher Shah Suri defeated Humayun and forced him to flee.
  • 1556
Second Battle of Panipat in which Bairam Khan (representing Akhar) defeated Hemu.
  • 1 565
Battle of Talikota (or Banihatti) in which an alliance of Ahmednagar, Bijapur. Golkonda and Bidar defeated the Vijaynagar empire (represented by Sadasiva).
  • 1576
Battle of Haldighati in which Akbar defeated Maharana Pratap.
  • 1615
Mewar submitted to the Mughals. A treaty of peace was signed between Jahangir and Rana Amar Singh of Mewar.
  • 1649
Kandahar was lost to Persia forever by the Mughals.
  • 1658
Battle of Dharmatt and Samugarh in which Aurangzeb defeated Dara Shikoh.
  • 1665
Raja Jai Singh defeated Shivaji and the Treaty of Purandar stoned.
  • 1708
Battle of Khed in which Shahu defeated Tara Bai.
  • 1737
Battle of Bhopal in which Bali Rao defeated Mohd. Shah_
  • 1739
Battle of Kamal in which Nadir Shah defeated Mohd. Shah.
  • 1757
Battle of Plassey in which the English forces (under Robert Clive) defeated Siraj-ud-daula, the Nawab of Bengal.
  • 1760
Battle of Wandiwash in which the English forces defeated the French forces.
  • 1761
Third Battle of Panipat in which Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas.
  • 1764
Battle of Buxar in which the English wider Munro defeated the alliance of Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal,Nawab Shula-ud-daula of Awadh and Mughal emperor Shah Alam.
  • 1767-69
Fiat Anglo My sore War in which Hyder Ali defeated the English forces.
  • 1770
Battle of Udgir in which the Maratha, defeated the Nizam.
  • 1766-69
Anglo Maratha War in which the British were defeated.
  • 1780-84
Second Anglo M) sore War. Hyder Ali died during the battle (1782) and the field was taken by his son Tipu Sultan. The oar concluded with the Treaty of Mangalore (1784).
  • 1789-92
Third Anglo Mysore War in which Tipu Sultan was defeated. The Treaty of Serirangapatnam followed.
  • 1799
Fourth Anglo Mysore War in which Tipu was defeated and killed.
  • 1803 -06
Second Anglo Mend is War in which the British defeated the Marathas.
  • 1817 -19
Third Anglo Maratha War in which the British defeated the Marathas badly.
  • 1824-26
First Anglo Burmese War in which the British defeated the Burmese.
  • 1839-42
First Anglo Afghan War in which the British defeated the Afghan ruler Dost Mohammad,
  • 1845-46
First Anglo Sikh War in which the Sikh were defeated.
  • 1848-49
Second Anglo Sikh War in which Sikh were defeated and Punjab was annexed by the British.
  • 1852
Second Anglo Burmese War in which the British won.
  • 1865
Anglo Burmese War in which the British won and annexed Burma.
  • 1868-80
Second Anglo Afghan War in which the English suffered losses.
  • 1919-21
Third Anglo Afghan War in which the English, though victorious, did not benefit from the war.

Pre-congress Nationalist Organisations

Organisation

Year/Place

Founder/s

Landholder’s Society 1838/Calcutta Dwarkanath Tagore
British India Society 1839/London William Adams
Bengal British India Society 1843/Calcutta George Thomson
British India Association 1851/Calcutta Devendranath Tagore & Radhakant Deb
Madras Native Association 1852/Madras  
Bombay Association 1852/Bombay Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinshaw Wacha
East India Association 1866/London Dadabhai Naoroji
London Indian Society 1865/London Feroz Shah Mehta, Badruddin Tyyabji, W. C. Banerji and Manmohan Ghosh
Indian National 1867/London Maty Carpentar Association
Poona Sarvajanik Sabha 1867/Poona M.G. Ranade, G.V Josht and Chiplankar
Indian Society 1872/London Anand Mohan Bose
India League 1875/ Calcutta Sisir Kumar Ghosh
Indian Association 1876/Calcutta Anand Mohan Bose and Surendra Nath Banerji
National Conference 1883 Anand Mohan Bose and Surendra Nath Banerji
Madras Mahajan Sabha 1884/Madras M. Viraghavacharya, G. Subramaniya Aiyar and P, Anand Charlu
Indian National Union 1884 A.O.Hume

Post Congress Nationalist Organisations

Organisation

Year

Founder

Raja Mundari Social 1878 Virasalingam
Reform Association    
Jorhat Sarvajanik Sabha 1893 Ras Behari Ghosh
Anti-None Cooperation 1920-21 Purshottam Das and Thakurdas Association
Anti-Circular Society  — K.K. Mitra
Lok Sewa Mandal  — Lala Lajpat Rai
Independent Congress 1926 Madan Mohan Malviya Party
United India Sayyid Ahmed Khan Patriotic Association
British Association of Raja Shiv Prasad Sahu Awadh
Liberal Association Sapru, Jayakar and Chintamani
Indian Liberal Federation 1919 S.N. Bannerji
Federation of Indian    
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) 1927 G.D. Birla and Thakurdas
Hindustan Sewa Dal  N.G. Hardikar
Independence of India League 1928 J.L. Nehru and S.C. Bose
Praja Party Akram Khan, Fazuil Haqpnd Abdur Rahman
Hindu Association Annie Besant
South India Federation of Peasants arid Agricultural labour 1935 N.G. Ranga and Namboodiripad
Unionist Party Fail Hussain
Rdshtriya Swayamsewak League 1925 Hedgewar
Hindu Mahasabha 1917 Revived by M.M. Malviya
Jona Sangh Shyama Prasad Mukherji
National Mohammadan Association 1878 Amir Ali
Mohammandan Literacy Society 1863 Abdul Latif
Deccan Educational Society Tilak & Agarkar

Labour And Trade Union Organisations

Organisation

Year

Founder

Bombay Mill and Millhands Association 1880 N.M. Lokhanda
Working Men’s Club 1870 Sasipada Banerji
 Printer’s Union 1905
Railway Men’s Union 1906
Kamgar Hitwardhak Sabha 1909 S.K. Bole
Social Service League 1911
Madros Labour Union 1918 G.R. Naidu and Chelvapathi
Amalgdmated Society of Railway Servants of India 1897
Ahmedabad Textile Labour Association 1920 M.K. Gandhi
Alt India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) 1920 N.M. Joshi and Roy Chaudhary
Bombay Textile Labour Union N.M. Joshi
All India Trade Union Federation 1929 N.M. Joshi
National Federation of N.M. Joshi Trade Union
Hindustan Majdoor Sabha 1938 VB. Patel, Rajendra Prasad and J.B. Kriplani
Indian Federation of Labour 1944 N.M. Roy
Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) 1944 VB. Patel

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