Modern Indian History MCQs

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Lord Mayo was the only Viceroy of India to be murdered in office. While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in 1872 for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by a Pathan convict.

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Jyotiba Phule authored Gulamgiri  (translated to Slavery in English) in 1873. His work was a potent critique of the social inequalities prevalent in Indian society. Importantly, Phule dedicated the works to those Americans who had fought to end slavery, thus drawing parallels between the conditions of the “lower” castes in India and the enslaved African-American population in the USA.

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Non cooperation movement (1920-22) was led by Mahatma Gandhi Veterans like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Annie Besant opposed the idea outright. But the younger generation of Indian nationalists were thrilled, and backed Gandhiji. The Congress Party adopted his plans, and he received extensive support from Muslim leaders like Abul Kalam Azad, Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Hakim Ajmal Khan, Abbas Tyabji, Maulana Mohammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali.

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The Aliah University (AU) is one of the oldest universities of India and is the First Muslim University of India. It was set up in October 1780 by Warren Hastings near Sealdah in Calcutta. It was also known as Islamic College of Calcutta, Calcutta Madrasah, Calcutta Mohammedan College and Madrasah-e-Aliah.

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The Privy Council consists of a body of advisers to the Sovereign of the UK. It is constituted with mainly senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons (Lok Sabha) or the House of Lords. As per the Charter of 1726, the right to appeal from the Courts in India was granted to Privy Council.

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“Everything else can wait, but not agriculture” is a quote attributed to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. Nehru said this after India gained independence, in the context of the Bengal Famine of 1942-43 and the food scarcity in 1947. Nehru’s statement is still valid 65 years later.

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Officers Training School for INA officers was opened under Habib ur Rahman. Azad School for the civilian volunteers were set up to provide training to the recruits. For the first time in Asia a women`s regiment, the Rani of Jhansi regiment was raised as a combat force, under Captain Laxmi Swaminathan.

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Under the command of Major Hector Munro, British East India Company won the Battle of Buxar from the joint alliance of Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal, Nawab Shuja-ud-Daulah of Awadh and Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. After the battle, Mir Jafar was again became the Nawab of Bengal.

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Pandit Shiv Narain Agnihotri founded the Deva Samaj, a religious and social reform society, in 1887 at Lahore. The religious text of this samaj was Deva Shastra and teachings called devadharma. It preched high morals and social conduct viz. not indulge in gambling, intoxication, bribe, etc.

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The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper, published in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. It was started by Robert Knight in 1875.