Modern Indian History MCQs

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The Second Round Conference opened on September 7, 1931. Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress and Sarojini Naidu represented Indian women. Jawaharlal Nehru did not participate in the Second Round Table Conference.

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Bangbhasha Prakasika Sabha was founded in 1836 by associates of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. It was the first organized political association of India and it worked for reform of administrative association of Indians with the British, spread of education, pushing forward Indian demands to the British parliament.

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The British Indian Association of Calcutta was formed in 1851 by the merger of the Bengal British India Society and the Landholders’ Society. It was established to convey the grievances of Indians to the British Govt.

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Shyamji Krishna Varma founded the ‘India House’ in London on 1 July 1905 as a hostel for Indian students, since most faced racist discrimination when seeking accommodation. India House soon became a hub of Indian nationalists and revolutionaries, the notables being Madan Lal Dhingra, Madame Bhikaji Rustom Cama, Lala Har Dayal, Veer Savarkar and many others.

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To discuss the provisions of the Wavell Plan a conference of 21 Indian Political leaders was invited to the Summer Capital of British Government Shimla. The leaders included Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was the President of the Congress at that time. Mohammad Ali Jinnah also reached in the conference. Here, Jinnah said that no non-league Muslim should be represented to the Executive Council because only Muslim League has right to represent the Muslims of India. He also wanted that all Muslim representatives should be from Muslim League. So, it was said that Congress had no right to nominate any Muslim in the Executive council. This was the main reason of failure of the Wavell Plan.

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Khurshedbehn Naoroji was the grand·daughter of Dadabhai Naoroji. She is known to have participated in salt satyagraha of 1930. She is best known for working with Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in N.W.F.P.

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In the year 1942, The Azad Hind Radio service was started in Germany by the leadership of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Its objective was to encourage Indian freedom fighters. The headquarters of Azad Hind Radio were shifted to Singapore and later to Rangoon.

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Benjamin Disraeli, the leader of the conservative party of England has called it a “National revolt.” “The motives of leadership of revolt, geographical extent of the sway of revolt, its loose organizational infrastructure and the fragile basis of national consciousness at that moment do not provide substance to the so-called characterization of sepoy mutiny as “National struggle.”

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The Civil Disobedience Movement inspired and brought many Indian women to participate. Immediately on 6 April 1930, Mahatma Gandhi was arrested, at that time he nominated Smt. Sarojini Naidu to head of the Movement. On 15 May 1930, Sarojini Naidu led the raid on the Dharsana Salt works. On 6th April 1930, a group of women led by Kamaladevi Chattopadhya marched to Chowpatty and started making salt from sea water on makeshift stoves or chulhas.

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The Salt Satyagraha started on March 12, 1930, with the undertaking of the Dandi March.It was a direct-action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly in colonial India and triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement.