Modern Indian History MCQs

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Gandhiji in 1942 referred to Subhash Chandra Bose as “Prince among the Patriots”. Bose was one of the most prominent freedom fighters in the independence struggle of India against the British.

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The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement. He gave the call to Do or Die. In 1942, in a fiery speech in Mumbai, Mahatma Gandhi gave the people of India a final push to make the British quit.

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The Communal Award was made by the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932 granting separate electorates in India for the Forward Caste, Scheduled Caste, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Indian Christians, Anglo-Indians, Europeans and Depressed Classes.

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In 1852 Dalhousie introduced the Electric Telegraph System in India. The first telegraph line from Calcutta to Agra was opened in 1854, covering a distance of 800 miles.
Lord Dalhousie Introduced the Railway in India for the first. He was the Governors-General of India at the Time. The First Railway was construction between Bombay’s Bori Bunder station and Thane on 16 April 1853.

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In the Calcutta Session of Congress in 1906, Dadabhai Naoroji had placed Swaraj as a national demand. It was the first time that the demand for a self government or swaraj, like that of UK and other colonies was raised from the platform of the Congress.

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Federation, Indian responsibility, reservation and safeguards were the three lynchpins of Gandhi-lrwin Pact. 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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On 28 December 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by A. O. Hume at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with 72 delegates in attendance. Hume assumed office as the General Secretary, and Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee of Calcutta was elected President.

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Cabinet mission proposed a rejection of the demand for a full fledged Pakistan because the Pakistan so formed would include large non-muslim population – 38% in the N-W and 48% in the N-E.

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Indian Home Rule League of Tilak was launched in April 1916, while the Home Rule League of Annie Besant came into existence in September that year.
The Komagata Maru incident involved the Japanese steamship Komagata Maru, on which a group of people from British India attempted to emigrate to Canada in 1914, but most were denied entry and forced to return to Calcutta, India.
Struggle for Indian independence (1915–1947) At the request of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, conveyed to him by C. F. Andrews, Gandhi returned to India in 1915. He brought an international reputation as a leading Indian nationalist, theorist and community organiser.
 

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3th April, 1919 at Amritsar,Punjab: Rabindranath Tagore  renounce his knighthood as “a symbolic act of protest on 30th May 1919.  In the repudiation letter, dated 30 May 1919 and addressed to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he wrote “I … wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings.”Shankar Ram Nayar resigned from the membership of the Viceroy’s Council. Michael O’Dwyer, aged 75, was shot dead at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society in Caxton Hall, London on 13 March 1940, by an Indian revolutionary, Udham Singh, in retaliation for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.Edwin Montague, condemned O’Dwyer’s severity, and called it as “Preventive Murder”. C.F.Andrews called Jallianwala Massacre as ruthless Murder.