Modern Indian History MCQs

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On April 3, 1926 Lord Irwin was appointed 30th Viceroy and Governor-General of India. In 1927, British government appointed a commission under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The Commission was appointed to study the reforms of 1919 and suggest further measures for Constitutional reforms. The Commission had no Indian member in it. The Indians boycotted this all-White commission.

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Green Pamphlet was issued by Mahatma Gandhi at Rajkot on July 9, 1896. He tried to expose the condition of Indian indentured laborers and the human rights violations in South Africa. It was considered as an anti-government publication by the British.

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On July 26 1876, Surendranath Banerjee, along with Anand Monah Bose, founded the Indian National Association in Calcutta. In 1885 , this organization was merged with the Indian National Congress.

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Barinder Kumar Ghosh was born at Norwood near London on 5th January in 1880.He was a younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh. In 1906, to spread the revolutionary ideas and to provide fervor to Swadeshi movement ,he started a Bengali weekly-“the jugantar”. In 1907, he started the Maniktala group with Bagha Jatin and a few young revolutionary activists for the collection of arms and ammunitions and manufacturing explosives.He was sentenced to death by the trial known as Alipore Bomb Case. Later the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and was sent to the Cellular Jail in Andaman in 1909. In 1920, Barindra Kumar Ghose was released. In 1933 Barindra Kumar Ghose launched English weekly, The Dawn of India. He was also associated with The Statesman newspaper and earned the title as a columnist. In 1950, he became the editor of the Bengali daily Dainik Basumati.

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The Charter Act of 1833 was also known as Saint Helena Act. It is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The first law commission of India was set up under the act and Lord Macaulay was its Chairman. The Indian Councils Act 1909 empowered the Governor General to nominate one Indian member to the Executive Council. Satyendra Prasanna Sinha was as the first Indian member.

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Badruddin Taiyabji became the Ist Indian Barrister in Bombay; became the 2nd Indian Chief Justice; was the founding member of Bombay presidency association and INC and also presided over the 3rd congress session in Madras in 1887.

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Ramakrishna mission is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which was founded on 1 May 1897 by Swami Vivekananda. The headquarter of the organization is located at Belur Math, Howrah. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Dev was an saint, and religious leader in 19th century Bengal. He was a Priest at Dakshineswar Kali Temple. Swami Vivekananda was one of the notable disciples of Ramkrishna Dev. It was said that before his death Ramkrishna Dev transferred all his spiritual power to Vivekananda.

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After the declaration of Clement Attlee, the Cabinet Mission plan was thought to have become defunct. Atlee served the post of British Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951. On February 20, 1947 Atlee declared the British would quit India before June 1948.

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Bhagat Movement is a religious movement among the Bhils scattered in 4 states of India viz. Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP and Maharastra. Bhagat means a devotee. When one of the Bhils becomes a Bhagat he has to abstain from eating meat, eggs and drinking wine. He also does not accept bride price. The movement is 3 centuries old and oldest Bhagat considered to be is Mavji of Rajasthan. Mavji is considered to be the 10th incarnation of Vishnu and had a large followership in Banswara and Dungarpur of Rajasthan.

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The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar led the Revolt of 1857 in Delhi, though the real control was exercised by General Bakht Khan. On the side of the British the combined effort of Nicholson, Wilson, Baird Smith and Neville Chamberlain enabled the recapture Delhi by September 1857. In Later, Bahadur Shah II was arrested and deported to Rangoon, where he remained in exile till he died in 1862.