Modern Indian History MCQs

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The Quit India Movement also known as the August Movement was a movement launched on 8 August 1942n by Mahatma Gandhi, demanding an end to the British Rule of India. The Hindu Mahasabha, The Communist Party of India, and The Unionist Party of Punjab did not support Quit India Movement.

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Lord Mountbatten the last British viceroy of India played an important role in convincing reluctant monarchs to accede to India. He was trusted by most of the princes and the Nawab of Bhopal, Hamidullah Khan was very close to him.

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The Bombay Presidency Association was founded by Pherozeshah Mehta, K.T. Telang, Badruddin Tyabji, and others. The Bombay Presidency Association was founded in the year 1885. The reactionary policies of Lytton and the Ilbert Bill controversy led to the formation of The Bombay Presidency Association.

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After the debacle of First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842), the British policy switched over to “masterly inactivity” pledging non-interference in Afghan affairs.

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Sankaran Nair was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1897 held at Amraoti, the first and probably only Keralite to be so. In 1902, the Viceroy, Lord Curzon appointed him Secretary to the Raleigh University Commission.

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Kesari, a Marathi newspaper, was founded by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1881. It was used as a spokes piece for the Indian national freedom movement,Tilak used to run his two newspapers, Kesari, in Marathi and Mahratta in English from Pune.

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Sarojini Naidu was the first woman to become the governor of a state in India after India’s independence. She held the post of Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 15 August 1947 to 2 March 1949. Her daughter Padmaja Naidu was the second woman to be the Governor of any Indian state when she held the position of West Bengal Governor during 1956-1967.

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Savitribai Phule was an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra. Savitribai Phule is known as India’s first female teacher. She helped her husband Jyotirao Phule to establish the first school for girls.

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The Khilafat Movement spanned from the year 1915 to 1924. The key feature of this crusade was that it was a Pan-Islamist movement where the Muslims of the British India allied with the Indian Nationalist against the colo-nizers. The various treaties of the British rendered the compromise of the Caliph in Turkey. The Khilafat Move-ment was an anti-British reaction in this context to that which soon found sup-port of the Muslims of the Indian Subcontinent owing to concerns of the weakening rule of the Caliph.

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On 12 August 1765, the Mughal Emperor appointed the East India Company as the Diwan of Bengal. The Permanent Settlement aka Zamindari system was introduced by Lord Cornwallis in Bengal in 1793. This idea was put forward by Sir John Shore. Under this system the zamindars were declared the owners of the land and they were free to decide the amount of levy to be collected.