Modern Indian History MCQs

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Sind was separated from Bombay in the year 1936. Orissa was also created as a separate province by carving out certain portions from the Bihar-Orissa Province and the Madras Province in 1936.

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Partition of Bengal took place in the year 1905. Division of Bengal was carried out by the British viceroy in India, Lord Curzon. The step began a transformation of the Indian National Congress from a middle-class pressure group into a nationwide mass movement.

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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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Lalmohan Ghosh (1849-1909) was the sixteenth President of the Indian National Congress. He is best known for his plea for compulsory primary education in India in his Presidential Address at the Madras session of the Congress.

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The functions of the army of the British regime in India are as follows:
1. It was the instrument through which the Indian powers were conquered.
2. It also defended the British Empire in India from foreign rivals.
3. It safeguarded British supremacy from constant threat of internal revolt.

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The Khilafat movement was launched by Muslims of British India led by Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. The Khilafat movement was a protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph and the Ottoman Empire after the First World War by the Treaty of Sevres. The Sultan of Turkey was accepted by the Indian Muslims as their spiritual head.

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On October 17, 1940 Mahatma Gandhi had chosen Acharya Vinoba Bhave as the first satyagrahi to start personal satyagraha and Jawaharlal Nehru as the second. The British Colonial government had committed India into the Second World War without the consent of the Indian people. To oppose this decision by the foreign government, the Congress party decided to launch individual satyagraha. During his period in prison, Bhave, wrote major three books – Swaraj Shastra, Sthitpragya darshan and Isha Vasya Vrith.

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The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress’s increasingly socialist and statist outlook.

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Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. After decades of sailors trying to reach India with thousands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, Gama landed in Calicut on the 20 May, 1498. This discovery was very impactful and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia.

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The Khilafat Movement spanned from the year 1915 to 1924. The key feature of this crusade was that it was a Pan-Islamist movement where the Muslims of the British India allied with the Indian Nationalist against the colo-nizers. The various treaties of the British rendered the compromise of the Caliph in Turkey. The Khilafat Move-ment was an anti-British reaction in this context to that which soon found sup-port of the Muslims of the Indian Subcontinent owing to concerns of the weakening rule of the Caliph.