Modern Indian History MCQs

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Bijoliya Kisaan Andolan- It was a pioneer agrarian movement in the Mewar State in present Udaipur District.The Jagirdar of Bijolia was a Parmar Rajput having 96 villages in his jagir. There were 86 different taxes on peasants against which peasants revolted in 1905. The initial leadership was provided by Sitaram Das. The movement got linked to national movement. Vijay (Bijoy) Singh Pathik and Manik Lal Verma (future Chief Minister of Rajasthan) led a no tax movement in 1916. It was called Bijolia movement. The peasants refused to do begar and held back the taxes. The movement continued through 1920s and spread over to other States of Rajputana.

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Pippli was the first place where the Dutch had established themselves in current territories of Odisha. It was soon abandoned for Balasore.

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Sri Narayana Guru preached the doctrine of ‘One caste, One religion, One God.’ Its worth note that one of his atheist disciples, Sahadaran Ayyapan, changed that into ‘no religion, no caste and no God for mankind’.

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Lord Ripon is known to be the developer of the scheme of local self-government. His scheme of local self-government developed the Municipal institutions in India.

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Jawahar Lal Nehru led the interim cabinet as the Vice President. The official name was Vice President of the Executive Council, External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations.

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The English East India company was established in 1600 AD and they set up their first factory (or settlements) in Surat in 1608 AD..

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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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In 1868, Amrita Bazar Patrika, a Bengali daily newspaper, started by Shishir Kumar Ghosh, Moti Lal Ghosh and Tusar Kanti Ghosh. It was used as a tool to expose British agent’s cruel deads of tyrrany.

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Fort William is a fort in Calcutta, built during the early years of the Bengal Presidency of British India. One of Kolkata’s most enduring Raj-era edifices, it extends over an area of 70.9 hectares. It was built after the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

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The Osmania University was set up by the Nizam of Hyderabad, the ruler of the largest Princely State during the British Raj and continues to be a renowned center for higher studies in Andhra Pradesh state.