Britain and France both controlled Control colonies on the Indian Subcontinent and when the French National Convention declared Expressing_publicly war on Britain on 1 February 1793 , both sides were prepared GetReady for conflict in India .

British India was centred Placing on the principal ports of Bombay , Madras and Calcutta , administered Control by the East India Company .

British India was centred Placing on the principal ports of Bombay , Madras and Calcutta , administered Control by the East India Company .

French India was governed Control from Pondicherry ( modern Puducherry ) on the Coromandel Coast .

British forces in India were considerably stronger than the French , with the British Indian Army supported Supporting by British Army detachments and a Royal Navy squadron under Rear-Admiral William Cornwallis .

News of the outbreak of war took Conquering five months to reach the Indian Ocean but British forces , recently engaged Forming_relationships in the Third Anglo-Mysore War , were mobilised Becoming_a_member in preparation and immediately seized the ports of French India .

The Bali Strait Incident was an encounter between a squadron of six French Navy frigates and six British East India Company ( EIC ) East Indiamen in the Bali Strait on 28 January 1797 .

The incident took place Process_start admidst the East Indies campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars repeated French attempts to disrupt Hindering the highly valuable British trade routes with British India and Qing Dynasty China .

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major , but ultimately unsuccessful , uprising Change_of_leadership in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company , which functioned Being_in_operation as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown .

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major , but ultimately unsuccessful , uprising Change_of_leadership in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company , which functioned Being_in_operation as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown .

It then erupted Process_start into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India , though incidents Catastrophe of revolt also occurred Presence farther north and east .

The East India Company 's response Response came rapidly as well .

It led to Causation the dissolution of the East India Company , and forced Hostile_encounter the British to reorganize the army , the financial system , and the administration in India , through passage of the Government of India Act 1858 .

It led to Causation the dissolution of the East India Company , and forced Hostile_encounter the British to reorganize the army , the financial system , and the administration in India , through passage of the Government of India Act 1858 .

It led to Causation the dissolution of the East India Company , and forced Hostile_encounter the British to reorganize the army , the financial system , and the administration in India , through passage of the Government of India Act 1858 .

India was thereafter administered Control directly by the British government in the new British Raj .

East India Company 's expansion in India .

East India Company 's expansion in India .

The victory was consolidated Cause_change_of_strength in 1764 at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Buxar , when the East India Company army defeated Conquering Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II .

The Company soon expanded Expansion its territories around its bases in Bombay and Madras ; later , the Anglo-Mysore Wars ( 1766–1799 ) and the Anglo-Maratha Wars ( 1772–1818 ) led to Causation control Control of even more of India .

The border dispute Quarreling between Nepal and British India , which sharpened after 1801 , had caused Causation the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–16 and brought Bringing the defeated Gurkhas under British influence Influence .

For practical purposes , the Company was the government of much of India .

After her return Arriving to power in 1980 as Prime Minister of India , Indira Gandhi ordered Arranging a general review of India 's security plans .

After her return Arriving to power in 1980 as Prime Minister of India , Indira Gandhi ordered Arranging a general review of India 's security plans .

India 's efforts to occupy Control Thag La was the casus Causation belli for the October 1962 Chinese military attack Attack on India .

India 's efforts to occupy Control Thag La was the casus Causation belli for the October 1962 Chinese military attack Attack on India .

However , due Causation to internal pressure , specifically concern about the 50 million Tamils living in India , the Indian government called Request for a halt Process_end to the offensive .

After the convoy Patrolling was blocked Hindering by the Sri Lanka Navy , India instead chose Choosing to airdrop Bringing supplies Supply to the besieged Besieging city in a mission codenamed Operation Poomalai .

The 1993 Bombay bombings Catastrophe were a series of 12 bomb explosions Catastrophe that took place Process_start in Mumbai , India , then known as Bombay , on 12 March 1993 .

The Supreme Court of India gave Giving its judgement on 21 March 2013 , after over 20 years of judicial proceedings , upholding the death Death sentence against suspected Suspicion ringleader Yakub Memon while commuting the previous death Death sentences against 10 others to life in prison Prison .

After India 's three-judge Supreme Court bench rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act his curative petition , saying Statement the grounds raised Hold by him do not fall within the principles laid down by the apex court in 2002 , the Maharashtra state government executed Yakub Memon on 30 July 2015 .

The 2012 Pune bombings Terrorism was a series of four coordinated low-intensity bombing Terrorism attacks Attack that occurred Coming_to_be on 1 August 2012 across Pune , the ninth-largest metropolis in India .

As of October 2012 , Indian Mujahideen , a terrorist group based in India , is suspected Suspicion to be behind the attacks Attack .

In 1771 , ten years after Panipat , he sent Sending a large Maratha army into northern India in an expedition that was meant to re-establish Recovering Maratha domination in that area and punish Rewards_and_punishments refractory powers that had either sided with the Afghans , such as the Rohillas , or had shaken Body_movement off Maratha domination after Panipat .

The incident Killing generated Causation widespread Judgment_communication national and international coverage and was widely condemned , both in India and abroad .

A BBC documentary titled Name_conferral `` India 's Daughter '' based on the attack Attack was broadcast Expressing_publicly in the UK on 4 March 2015 .

In India , the conflict is also referred Name_conferral to as Operation Vijay ( , literally `` Victory '' ) which was the name of the Indian operation to clear Emptying the Kargil sector .

India had conducted Action its first successful test in 1974 ; Pakistan , which had been developing Cause_to_make_progress its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time , conducted Action its first known tests in 1998 , just two weeks after a second series of tests by India .

India had conducted Action its first successful test in 1974 ; Pakistan , which had been developing Cause_to_make_progress its nuclear capability in secret since around the same time , conducted Action its first known tests in 1998 , just two weeks after a second series of tests by India .

The Indian Civil Aviation Airshow is a biennial air show Social_event held in Hyderabad , India at the Begumpet Airport .

The first show , India Aviation 2008 , was held from 15 to 18 October 2008 .

On 4 April 2013 , a building collapsed Catastrophe on tribal land in Mumbra , a suburb of Thane in Maharashtra , India .

It was the second instance of nuclear testing Testing conducted by India ; the first test Testing , code-named `` Smiling Buddha '' , was conducted Action in May 1974 .

The tests achieved Achieve their main objective of giving Giving India the capability to build Building fission and thermonuclear weapons with yields up to 200 Kilotons .

Subsequently , India established Creating computer simulation capability to predict the yields of nuclear explosives whose designs are related to the designs of explosives used Using in this test Research .

On 13 May 1998 , two additional fission devices were detonated Attack , and the Indian government led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee shortly convened Come_together a press conference to declare Expressing_publicly India a full-fledged nuclear state .

The tests resulted in Causation a variety of sanctions against India by a number of major states , including Japan and the United States .

Its timing Deciding was a direct response Response to India 's second nuclear tests Testing , on 11 and 13 May 1998 .

These tests Testing by Pakistan and India resulted in Causation United Nations Security Council Resolution 1172 and economic sanctions Preventing_or_letting on both states by a number of major powers Influence , particularly the United States and Japan .

Creating Creating an airlift presented Presence the AAF a considerable challenge in 1942 : it had no units trained Education_teaching or equipped Supply for moving Motion cargo , and no airfields existed Presence in the China Burma India Theater ( CBI ) for basing the large number of transports that would be needed .