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1816 A group of Bengali and English men found the Hindu College
in Calcutta "for the education of native youths in European literature
and science"
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1817 James Mill writes a History of India, justifying
British rule in India
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Mirza Asadulla Khan Ghalib, preeminent poet in the Urdu
language, writes ghazal lyric poems expressing
the aesthetic of Islamic culture in India |
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1828 Bengali reformer Ram Mohun Roy founds the Brahmo Samaj, an
organization dedicated to Hindu religious and social reform
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1835 British politician Thomas Macaulay publishes his Minute
on Education on India, arguing for English education for Indians
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ca. 1837–1841 Henry David Thoreau reads and is influenced by the
Bhagavad-Gita
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ca. 1855 Walt Whitman's Passage to India is published in
Leaves of Grass
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1861 Michael Madhusudan Datta, Indian Christian convert in
Calcutta, publishes Meghanadvadh, a Bengali version of the
Ramayana epic in blank verse, modeled after Homer and
Milton
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1882 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee writes the novel Ananda
Math, an allegory of resistance to colonial rule
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1885 A group of Indian and English intellectuals found the
Indian National Congress, an organization devoted to Indian
representation in the British colonial government of India
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1894 Rudyard Kipling publishes The Jungle Book
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