-1500 : {caste system} -200 : {Buddhism is a state religion} 1400 : {contact with European culture (Visco De Gama)} 1700 : {war between France and England won by the British} 1800 : {Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India} 1900 : {Gandhi starts his peaceful resistance against the British} 1947 : {India becomes independant, then division between India and Pakistan and Bangladesh} 1948 : {Gandhi is assassinated}