Modern Indian History MCQs

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In the year 1945 (18th August), he was on board a plane from Taiwan to Russia. It was said that he was killed after the plane got crashed. However many among his supporters denied the fact.

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Regulation I of 1892 stipulated that a Head Constable was to take on responsibilities as the executive head of the Police. Additionally, the Superintendent of Police was assigned control and deliberative powers which were distinct from executive authority, thus making both statements correct as per the regulation.

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Baji Rao II (1796-1818) was the last Peshwa of the Maratha Confederacy. It was during his time that the Peshwaship was abolished by the British and he was given a hefty pension.

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Mahatma Gandhi did not lead the Swadeshi Movement of 1905. On October 16,1905 when the Partition of Bengal was given effect to, Bengal plunged into grief. The people decided to boycott the foreign goods and use Swadeshi. A special session of the Indian National Congress was convened at Calcutta in September 1920 to adopt the policy of progressive non-violent non-cooperation inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. The resolution on Noncooperation was again repeated at the Nagpur session of the INC in December 1920. The Civil Disobedience Movement (1930–1934) was started with the famous Dandi March. The Congress Working Committee met on July 14,1942 at Wardha and adopted the famous ‘Quit India Resolution’. This resolution was accepted with some modification by All India Congress Committee in Bombay on August 8,1942.

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The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885 by Indian and British members of the Theosophical Society movement, including Scotsman Allan Octavian Hume. Hume organised the first meeting in Bombay with the approval of the Viceroy Lord Dufferin.

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With the observance of the All India Flag Day on June 18, 1923, the Jhanda Satyagraha assumed national complexion with Nagpur as its headquarters and “Nagpur Chalo” as its slogan. ? In 1923, at Jabalpur, when the police commissioner insulted our national Flag. Sarojini Naidu and Maulana Azad hoisted the Flag at the town hall of Jabalpur.

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Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India who presided over the independence of both India and Pakistan. He was the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India (1947–48), from which the modern Republic of India was to emerge in 1950.

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Lord Ripon’s Resolution of 18 May, 1882 is hailed as the Magna Carat of government and got for him the title of “father of local self-government in India. The resolution on local self-government recognised the twin considerations of local government: (i) administrative efficiency and (ii) political education. The Ripon Resolution, which focused on towns, provided for local bodies consisting of a large majority of elected non-official members and presided over by a nonofficial chairperson.

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Dadabhai Naoroji, known as the Grand Old Man of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader. He was also known as “Unofficial Ambassador of India”. Naoroji was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress. His book ‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ brought attention to the draining of India’s wealth into Britain. He founded a Gujarati fortnightly publication, the Rast Goftar.

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The Bardoli Satyagraha, in the state of Gujarat, India during the British Raj, was a major episode of civil disobedience and revolt in the Indian Independence Movement on 12 June 1928. The movement was eventually led by Vallabhbhai Patel, and its success gave rise to Patel becoming one of the main leaders of the independence movement.