Modern Indian History Quiz

Lord Macaulay’s Minute on Education (1835) famously advocated for the promotion of Western education through the medium of the English language in India. This minute formed the basis of the English Education Act of 1835.

In 1918, Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy, produced their scheme of constitutional reforms, known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, which led to the enactment of the Government of India Act of 1919.

Danish India was the name given to the colonies of Denmark (Denmark–Norway before 1814) in India, forming part of the Danish colonial empire. Danish was the one who had not any settlement on the eastern coast of India whereas French settlement in Pondicherry, Portugese have Goa and Dutch in Kochi.

The Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on 4 December 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

Annie Besant was the first woman to have presided the Congress session held at Calcutta in 1917. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman President of Congress. She was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925.

The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' (total independence) resolution at its Lahore session. A public declaration was made on 26 January 1930 – a day which the Congress Party urged Indians to celebrate as Independence Day.

Mahatma Gandhi gave Vallabhbhai Patel the title of 'Sardar'.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought on January 14, 1761, between the Maratha Confederacy and the invading Afghan army of Ahmad Shah Abdali. The crushing defeat of the Marathas at this battle severely weakened their power and cleared the path for the British to consolidate their rule.

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to accept a well-framed subsidiary alliance in 1798.

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