The most famous Mauryan ruler was Ashoka. He was the first ruler who tried to take his message to the people through inscriptions. Most of Ashoka’s inscriptions were in Prakrit and were written in the Brahmi script. Between 2200 and 1900 years ago, Arikamedu was a coastal settlement where ships unloaded goods from distant lands. A massive brick structure, which may have been a warehouse, was found at the site.

Although A.O.Hume played a prominent role in establishing Indian National Congress, he never served as its president.
In 1904, Henry Cotton served as President of the Indian National Congress. Annie Besant was the president of the Indian National Congress, in late 1917

According to the system of law, a European could be tried only by a European Judge or a European Magistrate.
The disqualification was unjust and it was sought to cast a needless discredit and dishonour upon the Indianborn members of the judiciary. C.P. Ilbert, Law Member, introduced a bill in 1883 to abolish this discrimination in judiciary. But Europeans opposed this Bill strongly.
They also suggested that it was better to end the English rule in India than to allow the English to be subjected to the Indian Judges and Magistrates. The bill ended due to this opposition. The Ilbert Bill controversy helped the cause of Indian nationalism. The immediate result of this awakening of India was the birth of the Indian National Congress in 1885, the very next year of Ripon’s departure.

Indian Mirror was an English paper founded by Devendranath Tagore, at Calcutta in 1862.

It provided for the establishment of an All-India Federation consisting of provinces and princely states as units.
It abolished dyarchy in the provinces and introduced ‘provincial autonomy’ in its place.
It provided for the establishment of a Federal Court, which was set up in 1937