Modern Indian History MCQs

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The Battle of Plassey was fought on June 23, 1757. Due to conspiracy, Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah was defeated by the British army led by Robert Clive. This event marked the ‘drain of wealth’ from India to British.

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As per the Treaty of Lahore (1846), Sir Henry Lawrence became the first British resident in Lahore (the former Sikh capital), who thus became the real ruler of Punjab.

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A sanyasi known as Mulbagal Swami led the Revolt of 1857 in Coimbatore. He preached his devotees that British rule should be brought to an end. Finally, for provoking people against the British, he was arrested by the British forces.

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Allan Octavian Hume ( popularly known as A. O. Hume) was a well known political reformer and a civil servant during the rule of British Empire in India. In 1885, the Indian National Congress (INC) was founded by him to create a platform which was under the supervision of the British and which should let the British government know the demands of the Indian people. To prevent another nationwide outbreak like the one that took place in 1857, the INC came into existence and in the beginning the leaders of that organisation were loyal to the British Crown.

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Charles Wilkins was the first person to translate the Bhagavad Gita from Sanskrit to English. Wilkins was an English typographer and Orientalist who worked for the East India Company. While in India, he learned Bengali, Sanskrit, and Persian and became a translator.
Wilkins’ translation was published in 1785 as “Bhagvat-geeta or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon” by the British East India Company. The book was published by the Nourse printing press in Central London. Lord Warren Hastings, the first British Governor-General of India, wrote the introduction.
Wilkins’ translation is commonly known as Wilkin’s Gita. In his preface, Wilkins argued that the Gita was written to encourage monotheism and to draw Hinduism away from the polytheism of the Vedas.

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The Ghadar Party was founded by Lala Har Dayal and Sohan Singh Bhakna in 1913 in San Francisco. The party was an organization of immigrant Sikhs from India and was a part of the larger Ghadar Movement, which aimed to secure India’s independence from British rule. It played a key role in inspiring the Indian independence movement abroad, particularly among Indian immigrants in the United States and Canada.

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“Unhappy India” was written by Lala Lajpat Rai. It was published in the year 1928. The book was a reply to “Mother India” written by Katherine Mayo.

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Mir Jafar, the Company’s puppet Nawab of Bengal, first granted the famous “double batta” to the East India Company. Batta was a field allowance or extra pay or Active-Service allowance of the Company’s troops. Mir Jafar had doubled it when he had been installed for the second time as Nawab of Bengal. But in 1766, the Court of Directors decided to stop it. 

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The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London.

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The agreement was that the French would provide military assistance to Tipu against the British. Tipu also sent SOS calls to the Sultan of Turkey and the King of Afghanistan. However, Napoleon, who wanted revolutions all around the world against corruption, feudalism and heirarchy that used to dominate French society.