Modern Indian History MCQs

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Lucknow Session 1916 {presided by Ambica Charan Majumdar) was known for concession of separate electorates for the Muslims by the Congress Party.

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Bahman Pestonji Wadia, commonly known as B.P. Wadia, was a prominent theosophist and labour activist born on 8th October 1881 in Mumbai, India and passed away on 20th August 1958 in Bangalore, India. He was initially part of the Theosophical Society Adyar, and later joined the United Lodge of Theosophists. On 13th April 1918, together with V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar, Wadia founded the Madras Labour Union, one of the first ever organised labour unions in India.

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The factors that enhanced the Status of Hindi: The contribution of Bhudeva Mukherjee ,well-known educationist and writer,played a key role in establishing the Nagari script in Bihar schools and law courts before 1892. Nagari Pracharni Sabha was founded in 1893 to promote the cause of Hindi and Nagari script.The Language policy of Indian National congress in the end of 1920’s paved the way of Hindi as the Mother tongue of Hindustan.

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Madras Mahajan Sabha was started in the year 1884 with P. Rangaiah Naidu as  president and Anandacharyulu as secretary.

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Lord Reading (1921 – 1926): The excerpts of the important events took place during his period are:- Rowlatt act was repealed , Prince of Wales visited India in November, 1921, Moplah rebellion (1921) took place in Kerala, 1921, Formation of Swaraj Party, Kakory Train Robbery on August 9, 1925, Chauri-Chaura incident (1922), etc.

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To end British rule in India, a secret revolutionary society “Abhinav Bharat” was founded by Ganesh Damodar Savarkar (elder brother of V. D. Savarkar) in 1904.

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Much of the answer lies in Europe. An island nation for whom overseas trade was vital, Britain was committed to securing its Indian interests at all costs. Control of the seas, in an era in which export trade brought the greatest profit, gave Britain an edge over all rivals. For India, the eighteenth century thus offers a dramatic contrast with the Mughal agrarian order of the seventeenth, when overseas commerce was of secondary importance. Furthermore, although the industrial revolution was not yet underway, the British economy had already become suffused with a dynamic commercial ethos sustained by secure private property rights. In India the British could hold out to indigenous mercantile classes, first in the presidency capitals and then in the countryside, as local rulers did not, the attractive prospect of freedom from arbitrary exaction. Part of the reason for Britain’s success too lies, quite simply, in the fact that after 1757, by its conquest of Bengal, the East India Company had gained control of India’s richest province. This gave it the resources to dominate the other players in the continuing contests among India’s regional states. With a larger revenue base, the Company could field a larger army than its Indian rivals, and organize a more efficient state structure. As a result, even though the British state in Bengal was forged, in large part, from the same elements of ‘military fiscalism’ as other states throughout the subcontinent, it could over time subdue them all one by one. (Cambridge History of India)

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The Pabna Revolt of 1873 took place in the Bengal region, in Pabna and surrounding areas, which was notably a jute-growing area. The revolt was led by the jute cultivators against the British.

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Believing that untouchability is a religious issue, Gandhi sought to abolish the custom of untouchability not the caste system. He considered untouchability as blight on the Hindu world. Based on the philosophy that all human beings are equal and Harijans along with everyone else had a right to enjoy society.

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On 17th August 1947 the Radcliffe Line was declared as the boundary between India and Pakistan, following the Partition of India. The line is named after Sir Cyril Radcliffe who was commissioned to equitably divide 4, 50,000 km sq of territory with 88 million people.