Modern Indian History MCQs

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Bengal British India Society was established with the combined efforts of George Thompson along with Dwarkanath Tagore, Chandra Mohan Chatterjee and Parmananda Maitra in 1843. Objective of this organization was to secure the welfare and advancement of all classes in loyalty to the government of the reigning sovereign of the British dominions. In 1851 , both the Landholders’ Society and the Bengal British India Society merged into the British Indian Association.

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The Radical Democratic Party founded by MN Roy in 1940 at Calcutta.

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To end British rule in India, a secret revolutionary society “Abhinav Bharat” was founded by Ganesh Damodar Savarkar (elder brother of V. D. Savarkar) in 1904.

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The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia on February 2, 1881, in Lahore.

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Much of the answer lies in Europe. An island nation for whom overseas trade was vital, Britain was committed to securing its Indian interests at all costs. Control of the seas, in an era in which export trade brought the greatest profit, gave Britain an edge over all rivals. For India, the eighteenth century thus offers a dramatic contrast with the Mughal agrarian order of the seventeenth, when overseas commerce was of secondary importance. Furthermore, although the industrial revolution was not yet underway, the British economy had already become suffused with a dynamic commercial ethos sustained by secure private property rights. In India the British could hold out to indigenous mercantile classes, first in the presidency capitals and then in the countryside, as local rulers did not, the attractive prospect of freedom from arbitrary exaction. Part of the reason for Britain’s success too lies, quite simply, in the fact that after 1757, by its conquest of Bengal, the East India Company had gained control of India’s richest province. This gave it the resources to dominate the other players in the continuing contests among India’s regional states. With a larger revenue base, the Company could field a larger army than its Indian rivals, and organize a more efficient state structure. As a result, even though the British state in Bengal was forged, in large part, from the same elements of ‘military fiscalism’ as other states throughout the subcontinent, it could over time subdue them all one by one. (Cambridge History of India)

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Joseph "Kaka" Baptista  was an Indian politician and activist from Bombay, was president of Indian Home Rule Movement on its establishment.

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known to be the Father of the Indian Renaissance. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a non-conformist to many a tradition. He was born in 1772, in Radhanagar village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. He is also known for his efforts to abolish the practice of Sati, polygamy, infanticide, child marriages.He was a secularist as he was inspired by Christianity, Islam and the Upanishads.

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The Congress refused to let the government use Indian men, money and material in the war. They could be used only on the condition of granting the right of self-determination to the Indians. But the government refused to accept this and the Congress ministries resigned.

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The Dual System of Government in Bengal was the brainchild of Lord Clive. At Murshidabad, there was a puppet Nawab sitting paying the company an annual allowance of Rs. 6 Lakh. The British Emperor Shah Aalam II came under the protection of the British and he would now stay at Allahabad.

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Manabendra Nath Roy was an Indian revolutionary, radical activist and political theorist, as well as a noted philosopher in the 20th century. Roy was a founder of the Mexican Communist Party and the Communist Party of India.
Chittaranjan Das, popularly called Deshbandhu, was a leading Bengali politician, a prominent lawyer, an activist of the Indian National Movement and founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in Bengal during British occupation in India.
Chandra Shekhar Azad was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA)