Modern Indian History MCQs

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The All-India Muslim League was founded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka (now Bangladesh), in 1906. Aga Khan III was one of the founders and the first president of the All- India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38. He was nominated to represent India to the League of Nations in 1932. He was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.

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There have been three Burmese Wars or Anglo- Burmese Wars. They are as follows:
First Anglo-Burmese War (1824 to 1826): during the viceroyalty of Lord Amherst;
Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852 to 1853): Lord Dalhousie;
Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885): Lord Dufferin.

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The people in Kutch rose against the British when in 1819, they deposed Maharao Bharmal II, the king of Kutch, and placed his infant son on the throne. The masses got violent and the British had to opt for conciliation. The Kutch rebellion is regarded as the first uprising against the British Raj.

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Ramakrishna Paramahansa was the guru of Swami Vivekananda. After death of Ramakrishna, his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda popularized his ideas among Western audiences and founded both the Ramakrishna Math, which provides spiritual training for monastics and householder devotees, and the Ramakrishna Mission, to provide charity, social work and education.

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Brahmo Samaj was conceived at Kolkata in 1830 by Devendranath Tagore and Ram Mohan Roy as reformation of the prevailing Brahmanism of the time (specifically Kulin practices) and began the Bengal Renaissance of the 19th century pioneering all religious, social and educational advance of the Hindu community in the 19th century. n practice, a Brahmo Samaj is an assembly of all sorts and descriptions of people without distinction, meeting publicly for the sober, orderly, religious and devout adoration of “the (nameless) unsearchable Eternal, Immutable Being who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe.

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Warren Hastings was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal) from 28 April, 1772 to 20 October 1774. In 1774,he was appointed the first Governor-General of Bengal. He was also the first governor of India.

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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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Sher Ali was given life imprisonment at the penal settlement in Andaman Islands, when he stabbed and killed Lord Mayo, during the British Viceroy’s official visit to Port Blair on 8th February 1872. Mayo was visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands for the purpose of inspection.

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It was the third Satyagraha movement after Champaran Satyagraha and Ahmedabad mill strike. Gandhi organised this movement to support peasants of the Kheda district. People of Kheda were unable to pay the high taxes levied by the British due to crop failure and a plague epidemic.

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Young India was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1932. He used Young India to spread his unique ideology and thoughts regarding the use of nonviolence in organizing movements and to urge readers to consider, organise, and plan for India’s eventual independence from Britain.