Modern Indian History MCQs

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All India Khilafat Conference : In November 1919, a joint conference of the Muslims and Hindus was called at Delhi in pursuance of the Muslim League President Fazl-ul-Haq . Gandhi ji suggested to start the non –cooperation movement which was opposed by Jinnah. In December 1919, the Khilafat Conference held its second session . The third Khilafat Conference was held in February 1920 at Bombay .

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Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau’s philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The United States of Matsya was a State of India which was formed on 17 March 1948. Shobha Ram Kumawat was the first and last chief minister of the State. In the year 1949, the Matsya Union was merged with Rajasthan.

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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

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Gopal Hari Deshmukh was a social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. “Shidhaye” was his original surname. He was also known as “Lokhitawadi”. He took a significant part in founding Gyan Prakash, Indu Prakash, and Lokhitwadi.

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During the Lucknow session of Indian National Congress in 1916, the Congress and Muslim League together started demanding common reforms to the government. Since the year 1906, Muslim league had been demanding separate electorate for them. Through the Lucknow Pact, the Congress and Muslim League agreed to allow representation to religious minorities in the provincial legislatures.

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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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The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, also Act XV, 1856, enacted on July 25, 1856, legalized the remarriage of Hindu widows in all jurisdictions of India under East India Company rule was drafted by Lord Dalhousie.

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Sir Charles Metcalfe (1834-36) is known as the Liberator of the Indian Press, who abolished all restrictions on vernacular press through the famous “Press Law”.

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Partition of Bengal (1905): By the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, through a royal Proclamation, the partition of Bengal took place on Oct 16, 1905. The partition reduced the old province of Bengal in size by creating East Bengal and Assam out of rest of Bengal and separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas. The purpose was to set up a communal gulf between Hindus and Muslims.