Modern Indian History MCQs

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In 1632, the English East India Company secured an important trade concession from the Qutb Shahi rulers of the Golkonda kingdom in southern India. Known as the “Golden Farman”, this royal decree granted the East India Company the right to freely trade within Golkonda by paying an annual duty of 500 pagodas (gold coins).

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In January 1899, Lord Curzon was appointed Viceroy of India. Passed the Indian Coinage and Paper Currency act (1899) and put India on a gold standard.

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The Civil Disobedience Movement began with the breaking of the Salt law in March 1930. The movement, also known as the Salt March or Dandi March, started when Mahatma Gandhi led a group of people from Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal town of Dandi. The group marched 240 miles in 24 days. Gandhi violated the salt law by making salt from sea water. He was arrested on May 4th.
The Salt Act of 1882 prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt. The British government imposed a heavy salt tax and monopolized the manufacture and sale of salt. Gandhi’s movement was a demonstration against the increasingly repressive salt tax.
The movement ended on April 7, 1934.

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The Academic Association was established in 1828. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was the president of the organization. It was settled in Maniktala, Kolkata. Discussion on Free will, free ordination, fate, faith, the sacredness of truth were practiced by the members. Some notable members of the assoiation are Rasik Krishna Mallick, Krishna Mohan Banerjee, Radhanath Sikdar, Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee.

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In 1928, for the first time a constitution for India was drafted by Nehru Committee that was headed by Moti Lal Nehru. A year later, in the Lahore session of December 1929, Congress passed the Poorna Swaraj resolution. It was the same session in which Jawaharlal Nehru was elected as president of the Congress.
Here, please note that though the congress passed the Poorna Swaraj Resolution in December 1929, it was a month later on January 26, 1930, when a Pledge of Indian Independence also known as Declaration of Independence was taken.  You must note here that while the Poorna Swaraj Resolution was drafted by Jawaharlal Lal Nehru, the “Declaration of Independence” pledge was drafted by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 and it echoed the essence of American Declaration of Independence. After this pledge January 26, 1930 was declared as Independence Day by Indian National Congress.

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It was Kulin Kulasarvasva(“All about a Kulin Clan”) by Pandit Ramnarayan Tarkaratnan. A social satire against the practice of polygamy. It was the first social drama in a regional language(Bengali) attacking Brahmin polygamy, was presented by an aristocratic family in 1857.

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Madeleine Slade was in England and was named as Meera Behn by Mahatma Gandhi , whose disciple and associate she was. She was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1982.

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The Home Rule Movement waslaunched under the leadership of Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Tilak constituted the first home rule league at Belgaum in April, 1916. Annie Besant founded the second Home Rule league at Adyar Madras in September 1916. In 1917, Annie Besant was arrested. She was the first woman president of the Kolkata session of INC in 1917.

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In the Lahore Session 1929, INC passed a resolution under the president ship of Jawaharlal Nehru to observe 26 January every year as Purna Swarajya day.

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Australia Day, also previously known as Anniversary Day and Foundation Day is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788, the hoisting of the British flag there