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1510 – Portugal ruled Goa since 1510. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

1599-1947 – The history of British India, a chronology. John F Riddich 2006. Google books.

13 May 1648 – The construction of the Red Fort in Delhi was completed. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

Dec 1745 – The ship was ordered to escort a convoy for Gambia, the to pick up an East India company fleet heading for India, the “Harwich” voyage would last five years for John Newton. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James Walvin ©2007 UK).

1748-1868 – The East India company raised by Robert Clive in India in 1756, as the Bengal European regiment. They went to England in 1868. Fought in Delhi in 1857. The oldest of the Indian regiments raise in India was in 1748 the Madras European regiment. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p24).

1750 – The British East India company controls Bengal and Bihar opium growing districts of India. British shipping opium trade out of Calcutta to China. PBS Frontline.

2 Jan 1757 – British troops occupy Calcutta India. (Chch Star NZ. 2 Jan 2015. Today in history).

1770 – In the early 1770’s famine struck Bengal and killed ten million people. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1770 – The great famine of Bengal. About 10 million people died. One third of the population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1793 – The British East India company has a monopoly on the opium trade, poppy growers in India are banned from selling opium to other trade companies. PBS Frontline.

1817 – There was a major outbreak of cholera in Calcutta. The disease spread throughout India. 10,000 British troops died. Hundreds of thousands of people died throughout India.(Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1839 – In India’s city Coringa a huge 40 foot tidal wave caused by a cyclone wiped out the harbour city, that was never rebuilt. 20,000 vessels in the bay were destroyed and 300,000 people were killed. (Timeline internet).

1845-1880 – Peter Gray. Famine and land in Ireland and India 1845-1880. The historical journal 49 no 1 March 2006.

16 July 1859 – India. Nelson Examiner and Chronicle NZ. Papers past.

1865-66 – Odisha archives to publish book on Odisha famine. Times of india 1 Aug 2015. Bhubaneswar archives Orissa famine.

1866 – A famine in Orissi India. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1866 – Australia’s Yelverton Jarrah sawmill opened in 1866 about the same time as Ben Masons sawmill. The timber was shipped to the overseas market, Calcutta India. Loading of boats with timber at Lockeville was a slow job. (Western pioneers ©1980 JE Hammond).

1874-1878 – Famine in India during 1874 it became more severe over the years. Some 6 million people died especially in south India between 1876 and 1878. (Asia making of NZ. H Johnson B Moloughney).

1 Jan 1886 – Randolph Churchill, secretary of state for India. He annexed Burma. The Rothschilds and Burma's ruby mines. (Inside history. Gerry Docherty. Jim Macgregor. (c)2013 UK).

16 April 1891 – India and opium. Auckland Star NZ. Papers Past.

4 Dec 1891 – Anglo Indian empire, the opium traffic. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

15 Feb 1892 – Anglo Indian empire. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

15 Feb 1892 – Opium traffic in India. Auckland Star NZ. Papers Past.

17 Feb 1892 – Anglo Indian empire. Marlborough Express N. Papers Past.

1893 – Annie Besant, Theosophist, arrived in India in 1893, to learn about the religion there. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

3 July 1893 – India’s opium trade. NZ Herald. Papers Past

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3 July 1893 – India’s opium trade. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

3 July 1893 – Indian opium trade. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

28 Feb 1895 – Opium in India UPA. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

12 June 1897 – Assam. Timeline of earthquakes.

12 June 1897 – The great Assam earthquake, destroyed buildings in Calcutta, 200 miles away. The 8.7 earthquake caused landslides and flooding, which killed thousands of people. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

27 June 1897 – Assam 1,500 people were killed in an 8.3 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

25 June 1903 – Gorge Orwell aka Eric Blair was born in Motihari India. (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK).

4 April 1905 – A major earthquake in Lahore killed more than 10,000 people. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

1906 – An outbreak of bubonic plague resulted in a quarantine called by the second Indian plague commission. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker (c)2001 US).

17 Feb 1906 – The oddest thing in India. Oamaru Mail NZ. Papers past.

26 Feb 1910 – The Indian budget. Nelson Evening Mail NZ. Papers Past.

1911 – Opium was cultivated in Bengal India and exported to China. It earned lots of money. In return silk was imported and re exported to the UK. Corruption and the East India company. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

3 Jan 1911 – Indian opium exports. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

3 Jan 1911 – India and opium. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

24 Aug 1912 – Opium evil in India. Ashburton Guardian NZ. Papers Past.

26 Aug 1912 – Opium smoking in India. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

26 Aug 1912 – Opium smoking in India. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

20 Dec 1912 – Opium in India. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

6 Jan 1913 – India’s opium traffic. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

3 March 1913 – Indian budget. Nelson Evening Mail NZ. Papers Past.

4 March 1913 – Indian finance. Otago Daily Times NZ. Papers Past.

4 March 1913 – The Indian budget. Colonist NZ. Papers Past.

29 April 1913 – Indian opium export. Marlborough Express NZ. Papers Past.

1914 – World war one. The British empire. Three million men, half of them were in the Indian army. (Christopher Andrew. UK (c)2009 M15).

12 Oct 1915 – German spies in India. Om Creagh gen retired late. The Times London UK.

25 Jan 1919 – Destruction of India opium. Marlborough Express NZ. Papers Past.

1922 – Agha Hasan Abedi was born in Lucknow India.

1922 – George Orwell joined the Indian imperial police in Burma . (The Observer years. George Orwell (c)2003 UK)

1925 – Delhi intel bureau, London office Indian political intel inside M15 HQ. Travelling to India in 1925 was Percy Glading who was later jailed for spying in Britain for the Soviet Union. (Christopher Andrew. UK (c)2009 M15).

1926-27 – Travelling to India was George Allison who was jailed in India in Jan 1927 for travel on a forged passport. (Christopher Andrew. (c)2009 UK M15).

23 Feb 1928 – Opium in Calcutta. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

22 Oct 1928 – Opium in India. NZ Herald. Papers Past.

22 Oct 1928 – Opium in India. Evening Post NZ. Papers Past.

1929 – M15 travel to India, Philip Spratt who was accused of involvement in a Soviet led plot to overthrow British rule, during the Meerut conspiracy, trial in 1929. (Christopher Andrew. (c)2009 M15 UK).

1930s – M15 and IPI tracked Comintern agent Narendra Nath Bhattacharyi aka MN Roy. Also British Communist party, Indian Communist Party Palme Dutt. Acted as a Comintern agent, Dutt’s younger brother Clemens led the Indian section of the British Communist party. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1930s – M15 collaborated with IPI and the Delhi IB to keep watch on leaders in India, Nehru and Gandhi. Nehru went to the UK in the 1930s, then M15 monitored the death of his wife from TB in 1936, at a hospital in Switzerland. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

16 Jan 1934 – An 8.4 earthquake in India and Nepal killed 10,700 people. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 16 Jan 2015).

31 March 1942 – Jawaharlal Nehru foremost Hindu Socialist. NZ Herald. Papers Past NZ.

March 1943 – An attack on interned German merchant ships in Goa harbour in Portuguese India in March 1943. Raid into Mormugao harbour in Goa boarding the German merchant ship “Erhrenfels” sinking her. U boats operated in the Indian ocean before the raid. U boats had sunk 12 allied ships in the Indian ocean during March 1943. (Japans Gestapo Mark Felton (c)2009 UK).

1947 – Indian archives. The national archive of India. Journal magazine, government publication. New Delhi. Worldcat database.

1947-49 – In India a great deal of material was destroyed before government was handed over in 1947. By Sept 1947 security conditions in the Indian government offices was bad. Delhi, 14 July 1949 the office of the High Commissioner for India Krishna Menon. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

Aug 1947 – India’s Congress Socialist party had Communist ideas. Fear of Communism. 1947. British M15 and India’s DIB. April 1947, 7,200 files and 106,000 cards were transferred from IPI to M15 central registry. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

Feb 1948 – A conference of Communist youth was held in Calcutta India. Insurrections broke out in Burma Malaya, the Philippines and Indonesia after the conference. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

13 May 1952 – Pandit Nehru became premier of India. The Rajya Sabha, upper house of parliament of India held its first sitting.(HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

1959 – Since 1959 China had occupied over 12,000 square miles of India territory. (History today. May 2014 UK).

17 Dec 1961 – Indian troops entered Goa to liberate it from the Portugese who had ruled since 1510. Over 30,000 Indian troops were captured. 3,500 Portugese troops. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

28 May 1964 – Crowds at Jawaharlal Nehru’s funeral in New Delhi. Three million people lined the route. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

7 Jan 1980 – Indira Gandhi was voted back into power in India. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 7 Jan 2015).

1984 – An explosion at a Union Carbide India ltd plant in Bhopal, left thousands of people dead and more than 500,000 explosed to deadly chemicals. Dow, who purchased Union Carbide, hired Stratfor to watch activitsts. (The many faces of Anonymous. Gabriella Coleman ©2014 US).

31 Oct 1984 –India’s PM Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her home by two Sikh security guards. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

31 Oct 1984 – The assassination of Indira Gandhi.

3 Dec 1984 – At midnight, more than 40 tons of poison methyl isocyanate gas, leaked from Union Carbide pesticide factory, in Bhopal India. Thousands of peope died instantly, and since then 10,000 more have died. Victims suffer from lung, brain and immune diseases. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker. ©2001 US).

3 Dec 1984 – Bhopal union carbide plant accident killed several thousand people and injured more than 200,000.

1986 – Rita Rozario. Trafficking in women and children in India. New Delhi Uppal publishing house.

1988 – Surendra K Gupta. Stalin’s policy towards India 1946-53. New Delhi South Asian publishers.

Dec 1992 – The destruction of the Ayodhya mosque. It was built by the Mughals in the 16th century. On the site of a Hundu temple. The killing of thousands of people in the riots that followed. (You cant read this book. Nick Cohen ©2012 UK).

30 Sept 1993 – A series of Quakes killed 10,000 people. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

30 Sept 1993 – Killari 10,000 people were killed 7.4 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

1996 – Human rights within, rape for profit, trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India’s brothels. New York.

5 March 1998 – Indian Socialist leader wants multinationals to leave India. AFX news London UK. New Delhi Socialist leader George Fernandes.

11 March 1998 – Suzuki. Indian Socialist leader Fernandes. AFX news London UK. Leader of India’s Socialist party George Fernandes.

1999 – Vycheslav Trubnikov KGB in India. (The Mitrokhin archive. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitoikhin (c)1999-2000).

1999 – Enforced disappearances, arbitrary executions and secret cremations. Victim testimony and India’s human rights obligations. Interim report. Book. Worldcat database. Punjab disappeared and police brutality India.

26 Jan 2001 – 7.7 earthquake Gujarat 19,700 people were killed. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

26 Jan 2001 – Gujarat 20,000 people were killed 7.9 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

Dec 2001 – Islamic militants attacked the Indian parliament. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

25 July 2003 – Tibetan official meets Indian Communist party officers. BBC London UK. Political bureau of the Communist party of India, Marxist.

2007 – Alex von Tunzelman. Indian summer, the secret historty of the end of an empire. Macmillan.

2007 – Experiences of sex trafficking victims in Mumbai India. Article JG Silverman. MR Decker. J Gupta. A Mahesshwari. V Patel.

July 2008 – The Mumbai terrorist attacks. Three bombings in which 26 people died and hundreds of people were injured. There were about 100 million Indian internet users. Content was forbidden by the state. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert (c)2013 Canada).

6 Dec 2008 – Chinese party official met with an Indian Communist party delegation. BBC London UK. Indian Communist party, Marxist and Chinese Communist party.

2009 – Satyam scandal computer services. A corporate scandal in India in 2009. Ramalinga Raju.

2010 – A history of India. Burton Stein. David Arnold. From 7000 BC to present. Google books.

2010 – Constructing the criminal tribe in colonial India. Henry Schuarz. Google books.

17 Sept 2010 – Anonymous DDos attack on Indian software company Aiples, after a DDos attack on Bit Torrent site Pirate Bay. Anonymous attack on copyrite companies in 'Operation Payback'. (We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 US).

13 Feb 2012 – Big sex abuse racket at orphanages. The Hindu. Sex abuse of inmates at orphanages.

11 July 2012 – Widespread sex abuse of Indian orphans. Raw story. Sex abuse at orphanages and shelters in India. Children's homes.

26 Nov 2012 – The Guardian UK blog. India appointed first Muslim to head Intel bureau in 125 years. Syed Asif Ibrahim heads of India’s Intel bureau, 59 years old. Jason Burke.

2013 – Flooding In India caused devastation and a death toll of 6,000 in the state of Uttarakhad. (The Economist. March April 2014).

6 June 2013 – Hardly anyone in India pays income tax. A World bank report in 2006. India ranks 55^th on the global hunger index.

15 June 2013 – Hamid Ansari. Missing person. Interpol.

8 Sept 2013 – Court. Cops sheild owners of brothels. CanIndia news. Human trafficking rackets girls raped.

7 Oct 2013 – CID probes role of Nagaland top cop in ammunition smuggling. Hindustan times.

19 April 2014 – Lax laws help kidney racket thrive in south Asia. The Times of India. Poverty, Organ trafficking mafia, kidneys racket.

June 2014 – New Internationalist. Indian orphans western UK Paedophile ring sex abuse.

22 June 2014 – Hindustan Times. Between greed and poverty child trafficking rampant in Kerala orphanages.

22 June 2014 – India orphanages house kids of living parents. The Times of India. Kochi. Oxford dictionary defines an orphanage as a residential institution for care and education of children whose parents are dead. Trafficked children incidents.

22 June 2014 – 50% of adopton agencies are unlicensed and out of government ambit. Times of India. Child trafficking rackets flourish.

29 June 2014 – Nine personel of Chandigarh police were booked by Delhi cops. Indian express. Japjeet Duggai.

30 June 2014 – Cop held for rape and blackmail of a junior. Times of India Mumbai., Vijay Singh TNN Natasha Natu. A policeman was arrested for rape. Nagesh Gawde aged 30.

2 July 2014 – Corruption among Indian doctors. NDTV A British medical journal article. Unnecessary tests and prescribing drugs from a particular company etc.

17 July 2014 – Time. India is home to more poor people than anywhere else on earth.

19 July 2014 – The Economic Times India. Pro business is not anti poor. Arun Jaitley. Modi govt pro poor.

21 July 2014 – Economic Times India. Uncluttered offices. What will become of the archives. By Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Archives or death. History and politics.

2 Aug 2014 – India Times. Pro business is pro poor. Former Bihar deputy Sushi Modi.

3 Aug 2014 – Banking to the poor. DNA correspondent. Financial inclusion or exclusion. Basic bank accounts. This is good. But when I was poor, I had no bank account, because I had no money to put in it, and no welfare either. At least giving poor people bank accounts, with nothing in them, will give you data and statistics about this.

4 Aug 2014 – The Times India. Kerala cops face probe by Mumbai police for rapes. Ahmed Ali. Rape in police custody, wrongful confinement, threats and destruction of evidence.

4 Aug 2014 – Dodgy figures. Number of people poor, fell, as world bank revises poverty statistics. New Delhi. Poor in India 400 million down to 100 million. A new poverty line is drawn. $1.25 a day.

12 Aug 2014 – Bloomberg. Anoop Agrawal. Unni Krishnan. Indian cental banker urged cash transfers to dilute the power of Indian oligarchs. Directly transfer cash to the poor instead of giving money to public services. Corruption. Choices for the poor.

29 Aug 2014 – Forbes. India is launching a massive program. offering bank accounts to the poor. Saritha Rai. Modi India’s PM. Over a third of India’s population have no access to any financial services.

5 Sept 2014 – Intelnews Ian Allen. Al Qaeda announced the formation of a new branch in India. Current leader Ayman al Zawahiri aged 63.

29 Sept 2014 – Modi is a leader of the global poor. Quartz. Reuters. Kabir Chibber. Yes, but it has nothing to do with Socialist Middle class politics. Right wing Indian politics is real about the poor. India has the largest number of the poorest people of any country on earth.

5 Oct 2014 – Fact corner. Press TV. UN report warns of rising poverty in Asia Pacific region. Sanjay Sethi, New Delhi. Gaps between the ultra rich and the ultra poor are striking and widening.

6 Oct 2014 – Daily Times Pakistan. More than 2.2 billion people are poor or near poor. UN report. Tokyo AP. 25 July 2014. Its necessary to provide basic social security benefits to the poor. Basic social protection is needed. 1.2 billion people live on $US1.25 a day or less.

6 Oct 2014 – India tops list of largest share of extreme poor people in the world. UN report published. Daily Times Pakistan 17 July 2014. Xinhua China. Over 30% of global extreme poor are in India. New Delhi, on less than $US1.25 a day.

16 Oct 2014 – At 3 year old she was raped in Delhi and testified in court against her rapist, at the age of 5 surgeries continue. NOTV. Her rapist got let off because of her age.

23 Oct 2014 – Indian girl aged 3 is raped in a Bangalore school, suffers pain. BBC news. Investigation.

25 Oct 2014 – Navy man held in a mental prison for exposing corruption. Times of India. Torture, lies and threats.

3 Nov 2014 – We are preparing an online database of welfare recipients. The Hindu. Amrapali Kata, online database.

4 Nov 2014 – 700 missing children still untraced by Mumbai police in 3 years. Times of India. Activist Chetan Kothari, Mumbai crime branch missing persons bureau.

5 Nov 2014 – Child trafficking is a $343 billion trade in India. Mission network news. MNN National crime records.

6 Nov 2014 – Reuters. Food stockpiling and trade WTO. Manoj Kumar and Tom Milen. Rural people in India. 1.25 billion people. India and food security concerns.

13 Nov 2014 – Indian module are preparing for final Jihad in al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and ISIS training camps. The Indian national investigation agency are probing Islamist Module. Key members in contact with al Qaeda, terror attack in India. Kidnap Jews and terror in Burma Myanma. Care2 news.

17 Nov 2014 – About 200,000 Nepal children were sold into sex slavery in India. (Aangirfan).

18 Nov 2014 – International paedophile network in India. New India Express.

26 Nov 2014 – Police to maintain a database of sex offenders. The Hindu. Crimes against women and children.

21 Dec 2014 – Crusading against sex slavery. New India Express. Chennai India.

21 Jan 2015 – Mirror UK. Lost child finds his mum 25 years later, because he recognised their home on Google Earth. Sarah Ridley. Saroo Brierley was begging on the streets of India, he was picked up by an orphanage and adopted to Tasmania Australia.

2 March 2015 – India curbs shell companies. Indian Express. Shell companies located abroad but controlled from India to evade tax.

31 March 2015 – The Asian Mumbai. The State allegedly has no info about its orphans in orphanages. A biometrics system. 43 govt and 1,100 private orphanages. 90,000 orphans and 1,000 orphanages. The Indian govt has allegedly no data on these children.

17 April 2015 – Joseph Fitsanakis. Intel news. New documents released by US whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal an extensive intel collection op in Bangladesh operated by New Zealand and the US with Indian collaboration.

26 April 2015 – At least 26 people are known to have died in India. 17 in the eastern state of Bihar. Buildings in New Delhi were evacuated following the earthquake in Nepal. (AFP Yahoo news.).

26 April 2015 – At least 51 deaths in India following the Nepal earthquake. Indian Express. Felt strongly in India.

26 April 2015 – 44 people were reported killed in India, from the Nepal quake. (Reuters. Gopal Sharma.n Ross Adkin).

26 April 2015 – At least 35 people were killed in India from the Nepal quake. (Radio NZ).

26 April 2015 – India Today. PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat. We are with Nepal in this hour of crisis. New Delhi.

26 April 2015 – Swissinfo.ch SWI. Reuters. Aftershocks rock buildings in New Delhi. Halting the city metro.

26 April 2015 – Z news. 6.9 tremor rocks India and Nepal. Pm Modi calls an emergency meeting. India launched 'Operation Maitri' to rescue people trapped. 4,721 people were injured in Nepal. The calamity tis he worst in over 80 years.

12 May 2015 – Hindustan Times. 7.3 quake hit Nepal. 6 major aftershocks. Death toll rises. Tremors felt across India and in New Delhi. 100 people injured.

12 May 2015 – 4 earthquakes hit Nepal. PM Modi asks authorities to be on alert. 10 developments. NDTV.

17 May 2015 – Daily Mail online UK. Supreme court probes massive adoption racket. Foreigners pay huge amounts for Indian children. Overseas child trafficking under the cover of adoption.

20 June 2015 – Indian toxic alcohol kills at least 53 people in Mumbai/Bombay. BBC UK.

23 June 2015 – Corruption and trafficking. 'Operation Muskin' to photograph street children, begging, to be cataloged by police. Times of India.

2025 – Mail online. 29 July 2015. World population to hit 9.7 billion by 2050. India will overtake China as the most populous country. Darren Boyle.