Agra fort is a fortress in India
Patriots who helped <span>spark the American Revolution.</span>
India and Britain have a long and complicated history, starting in the 1600's.
By the late 1770's, the East India Company was starting to slowing gain political and territorial power for over 100 years. By the late 1800's, parliament places India under the direct control of Britain.
In 1869, the Suez Canal was opened. This made British goods and textiles easy to ship to India. British textiles were cheaper and made faster (machine-made) than India's own handmade textiles. This caused India's textile industry to collapse.
India was not happy under British rule. By the 1920's Mahatma Gandhi started campaigning for "noncooperation" and encourages people to avoid anything British. In the 1930's, he lead the Salt March, in an attempt to end Britain's monopoly on the salt market.
By 1947, India won its independence from Britain. The Muslim League wanted their own state. Britain divided India into two separate states: Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India.
Britain then left and withdrew from South Asia.
