Modern Indian History MCQs

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Surendranath Banerjee was dismissed from the Indian Civil Service in 1874. He was the second Indian to qualify for the Indian Civil Service examinations.
Banerjee passed the exam in 1869, but was disqualified due to a dispute over his age. After clearing the matter in court, he passed the exam again in 1871. He was appointed as an assistant magistrate in Sylhet, but was soon dismissed due to a serious judicial error.
Banerjee was often called the “Father of Indian Nationalism”. He was elected to the Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1876. He started the Indian Association in 1876 to push for constitutional reforms.

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The Ghadar Party was formed in United states of America on Nov. 1, 1913 by Lala Hardayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna. The members of the party were Indian immigrants, mainly from Punjab.

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Panth-Piploda was made a province in 1942 , from territories ceded by a native ruler. On 15th August 1947 it became a part of Independent India.

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The Second Anglo-Sikh War that took place in 1848 and 1849 was a military conflict between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and which subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province, by the East India Company.

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Non-cooperation movement had picked up steam by end of 1921 when over 30,000 people were in British jails, including all the top Congress leaders. However, Gandhi suddenly suspended the non-cooperation movement on 12 February 1922, without consulting any of the stakeholders, including the Muslim leaders of the Khilafat Movement. The reason was the perishing of 23 policemen when the Chauri Chaura Police Station in the Gorakhpur district of UP was set on fire in a retaliatory violence on 4 February 1922. Police had arrested leaders of a group picketing a liquor shop in the market place. In protest, a crowd gathered in front of the police station shouting slogans. The police opened fire into the crowd killing three and wounding several. Angered by the unprovoked firing, the protestors set fire to the police station, killing the policeman as a result.

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Cyril John Radcliffe (1899–1977), a British lawyer, was charged with the Chairmanship of two boundary committees that submitted partition maps on 9 August 1947 partitioning Punjab and Bengal. The new boundaries were formally announced on 14 August 1947.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay played a major role in introducing English and western concepts to education in India. In his well-known Minute on Indian Education of February 1835, Macaulay urged Lord William Bentinck, the Governor-General, for the replacement of Persian by English as the official language, the use of English as the medium of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers.

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Murshid Quli Khan (1717–1727), Alivardi Khan (1740-1756) and Sirajuddaulah (April 1756 – 2 June, 1757) were all nawabs of Bengal. Siraj ud-Daulah was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The end of his reign marked the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia.

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The East India Company because of the strategic positions of the Ports of Sind had tried its hand as early as 1775 to open a factory out there. But they abandoned it in 1792. In August 1842, Lord Ellenborough placed Major-General Sir Charles J. Napier (1782-1853) in command of Sind, with the mission of assisting the evacuation of British forces from Kandahar. Sind was annexed in 1843.

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The Chauri Chaura incident occurred at Chauri Chaura in the Gorakhpur district of the United Province on 5 February, 1922, when a large group of protesters participating in the Non-cooperation movement turned violent, leading to police opening fire. It resulted in the deaths of three civilians and 23 policemen. As a result of this incident, Gandhi called off the movement.