Modern Indian History MCQs

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Congress opposed the involvement of the country in the Second World War and as a mark of protest, the Congress ministries in the provinces resigned on 12 December 1939. In March 1940, the Muslim League demanded the creation of Pakistan.

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On 9 August 1683, King Charles II had granted a new charter empowering the company to set up courts. Under this provision, a new court was established 10 July 1686 and it was called admiralty court, in which a qualified lawyer was to work as judge-advocate. This court practically became the general court, not confined merely to maritime and admiralty cases proper as was envisaged by the charter. It exercised a much wider jurisdiction and dispensed justice in all cases-civil, criminal, maritime and mercantile. It practically relieved the governor and council from the judicial work.

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The invasion of Tibet by the Britishers took under Curzon in 1903. Also a number of annexations were made during the 1890s in the north-west to stop the Russian advance.

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Surendranath Banerjee along with Anand Mohan Bose established the National Association in 1876. In 1879, he also founded the newspaper “The Bengalee“. The book “A Nation in Making” was also his widely acclaimed work.

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The major ports that carried the bulk of foreign trade in the colonial period were the new sites where railways and modern harbors converged. Some of the examples are Madras, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bombay, and Karachi.

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The Mofussil police force, established on a large scale after the Maratha War of 1817, comprised the village police, stipendiary district police, and irregular corps. The Collector and District Magistrate headed the district police organisation, while village headmen or Patels functioned as the local village officers. Thus, all three statements are correct.

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The Naujawan Bharat Sabha was founded by Bhagat Singh in March 1926 and was declared illegal under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1908 in September 1934. Its purpose was to help foster revolution against the British Raj by gathering together worker and peasant youth. It was a left-wing organization which sought independence by gathering together worker and peasant youths. It was part of the Hindustan Republican Association.

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The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy followed widely by Lord Dalhousie when he was India’s Governor-General from 1848 to 1856. After Dalhousie became the Governor-General, in 1848, Satara was acquired as per this doctrine. Other major states annexed by the British as per the Doctrine of Lapse:
• Jaipur – 1849
• Sambhalpur – 1849
• Udaipur – 1852
• Jhansi – 1853
• Nagpur – 1854

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Here the matchings are explained below:
Abdul Gaffar Khan is known as Frontier Gandhi.
Dadabhai Naoroji is referred to as the Grand Old Man of India.
Madan Mohan Malaviya is called Mahamana.
Vallabhbhai Patel is known as Strong Man of India.

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Durand Line is a boundary line between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The length of the Durand line is 2640 Km. It was created as a result of an agreement between British India and Abdur Rahman Khan, the ruler of Afghanistan by Sir Mortimer Durand in 1893.