Ilbert Bill controversy
1883 · Event
British outcry against letting Indian judges try Europeans exposes colonial racial hierarchy and galvanises Indian political opinion.
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- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
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