Modern Indian History Quiz

Lord William Bentinck met with Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Ropar, on the bank of the Sutlej, in the spring of 1831. He had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour.

By January 1613, the first East India Company factory had come up at Surat.

The August Offer was made by Viceroy Linlithgow in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving full weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians' right to frame their own constitution.

Kakori Train Robbery took place at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, on 9 August 1925. The robbery was organised by Hindustan Republican Association.

The Ghadar Party, initially the Pacific Coast Hindustan Association, was formed in 1913 in San Francisco, California (United States) under the leadership of Har Dayal, with Sohan Singh Bhakna as its president.

The Salt March (Dandi March) was an act of nonviolent Civil Disobedience Movement in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 5 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.

Home Rule League, either of two short-lived organizations of the same name in India established in April and September 1916, respectively, by Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant.

Lord Ripon is known as the Father of Local Self Government in India. He was the first British viceroy to give wider rights and powers to local bodies.

Tilak found the first home rule league at the Bombay provincial congress at Belgaum in April 1916.

The Lucknow Pact was an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League (AIMLM) at a joint session of both parties held in Lucknow in December 1916.