Modern Indian History MCQs

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The Treaty of Bassein (Now called Vasai) was a pact signed on December 31, 1802 between the British East India Company and Baji Rao II, the Maratha peshwa of Pune (Poona) in India after the Battle of Poona. The treaty was a decisive step in the dissolution of the Maratha Confederacy, which led to the East India Company’s usurpation of the peshwa’s territories in western India in 1818.

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The charter act 1833: It is considered to be an attempt to codify all Indian Laws. The Governor General of Bengal now became the The Governor General of India. One of the Provision of this act – “the East India Company now lost its trading privilege i.e., tea and monopoly in China ,henceforth it became a purely administrative body under the crown.”

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Diwan Mani Ram Datta or Maniram Dutta Baruah, popularly called Kalita Raja, was an Assamese nobleman and one of the pioneers of the tea gardens in Assam. He was a loyal ally of East India Company but then was hanged by the British for conspiring against them during the 1857 uprising.

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Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times between 1937 and 1948 but never received the prize, being assassinated on 30 January 1948 two days before the closing date for the 1948 Peace Prize nominations.

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The British Committee of the Indian National Congress was established in Britain by the Indian National Congress in 1889. Its objective was to raise awareness of Indian issues to the public in Britain, to whom the Government of India was responsible. William Wedderburn served as the first chairman and William Digby as its secretary.

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Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) was the capital of India under British rule from 1772 to December, 1911. The British East India Company chose Calcutta as the capital of British India because of its strategic location and its access to the sea, which made it an ideal center for trade. During this period, Calcutta was a major center of commerce and industry, and it played a key role in the development of the British Empire in India. In 1911, the capital of British India was moved from Calcutta to Delhi.

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Lalitha Mahal is loated in Mysore in the state of Karnataka near Chamundi Hills. It was built in the year 1921. It was built for the exclusive stay of the Viceroy of India.

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The Paris Indian Society, also known as Bharat Mandal, was an Indian nationalist organization founded in Paris in 1905. The society was founded by Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, Munchershah Burjorji Godrej, and S. R. Rana. The society was a branch of the Indian Home Rule Society, which was founded in London in 1905.

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In 1851 AD, the Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha started by Naoroji Furdonji, Dadabhai Naoroji, S.S.Bengali, etc. at Bombay with  the purpose of restoring Zoroastrian religion to its pristine glory. They campaigned against orthodox and initiated the modernization of Parsi social customs regarding the education of women, marriage and the social position of women in general.

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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.