This is of course a very complex question that does not have a definitive answer, but 1850s would be a good decade to start counting as "Modern". This was a decade of the telegraph and Darwin's The Origin of Species.
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<span>The bill of rights protects...1. freedom of speech, religion, assembly</span>
The following is the sequence of events:
Formation of East Indian Company (1600)
Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
Complete British Colonization of India (1858)
Formation of Indian National Congress (1885)
Sepoy Rebellion - Indian Rebellion of 1857
The East India Company or the British East India Company was established in 31 December 1600
The British Raj was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.
The Indian National Congress is a political party in India founded in December 28, 1885.
We depend on It for food and transportation