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1857
 
    
Animal fat on a new issue of cartridges sparks off the Indian Mutiny, also know as the First War of Indian Independence       
1857
 
    
After being besieged for five months in Lucknow, the remnants of the British garrison finally escape       
1858
 
   
Lucknow is retaken by the British, nearly a year after it fell to the rebels      
1858
 
   
The end of the Indian Mutiny is followed by brutal British retaliation      
1858
 
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The India Act places India under the direct control of the British government, ending the rule of the East India Company      
1858
 
    
The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah II, is deposed by the British and exiled to Rangoon, in Burma       
1860s
 
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Mortlake’s brewery becomes prosperous through contracts supplying beer (India Pale Ale) to the British army in India See in Google maps   
1876
 
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India becomes the 'jewel in the crown' of Queen Victoria when Benjamin Disraeli secures for her the title Empress of India       
1901
 
    
Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim       
Rudyard Kipling, by Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 1899
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1903
 
    
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi