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