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Historical Event on 1/28/1846

British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/1911Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born.
10/25/1951First General Election of India begins.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
8/29/1974Lokdal Party established under the presidency of Chaudhary Charansingh.
8/15/1982Doordarshan's national programme and the first nationwide colour transmission started by Delhi Doordarshan.
2/18/1993Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
12/4/1959Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation.
2/18/1994India rejects OIC offer to mediate on Kashmir.
10/31/1984Rajiv Gandhi sworn in as Prime Minister of India by Gyani Zail Singh, President of India, at New Delhi. He held this office till December 1, 1989.
11/17/1932The Third Round Table Conference began in London. It was not attended by the Congress as the real Indian participation in the making of the constitution was negligible. Since Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it either. This conference ended on 24th November 1932 without achieving anything.