Modern Indian History MCQs

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In the Battle of Wandiwash (1760), the war was fought between the French, under the Comte de Lally and the British, under Sir Eyre Coote. In it, the French forces were badly defeated by British forces and lost all their possessions in India. After the war, the Treaty of Paris was signed. As per the treaty, Pondicherry, Karaikal and Mahe were restored to the French under the protection of the English.

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In 1616 AD, the Danish East India company was formed and they established their settlements at Tranquebar in Tamilnadu (1620) and Serampur in Bengal (1676). Though, they failed to strengthen themselves in India and finally in the beginning of 19th century, they sold all their settlements to the British and went back to their country.

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In the Haripura session of 1938, the Congress President Subhash Chandra Bose advocated the introduction of Roman script for Hindi language.

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In 1924, the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) was founded by Sachindra Sanyal and Jogesh Chandra Chatterji. The purpose of this organisation was to establish a “Federated Republic of the United States of India” through an organised armed revolution. This association marked a significant moment in India’s independence movement as it aimed to overthrow British rule through armed resistance.

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The Wahabi Movement (1820-1870) was an Islamic revivalist movement founded by Syed Ahmed Barelvi of Rai Bareilly, who
wanted to revive Islam to the way it was during the Prophet’s time. He was inspired by the teachings of Abdul Wahab of Saudi Arabia and Shah Waliullah of Delhi. The purpose of this movement was to revive and restore Muslim power in India by overthrowing the sikhs and the British.

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The Bombay Samachar is the oldest continuously published newspaper in India. It was established in 1822 by Fardunjee Marzban, it is published in Gujarati and English.

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Hindustan Socialist Republican Association was a revolutionary organisation, also known as the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, established in 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi by Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and others.

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Charter Acts of 1813 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which renewed the charter issued to the British East India Company, and continued the Company’s rule in India. However, the Company’s commercial monopoly was ended, except for the tea trade and the trade with China.

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The Swaraj Party was formed on 9 January 1923 by Indian politicians and members of the Indian National Congress who had opposed Mahatma’s suspension of all civil resistance on 5 February 1922 in response to the Chauri Chaura tragedy, where policemen were killed by a mob of protestors and to enter the Councils and wreck the Government from within.

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Bombay Association (1852): The first political association in Bombay presidency was founded by Dadabhai Naoroji in 1852, to express public grievances to the British.