Modern Indian History Quiz

All of the given answers choices are responsible for the decline of the Indian Handicrafts Industry in the 19th century.

Acharya Vinobha Bhave Start individual Satyagraha from Pavnar in Maharashtra in 1940. He was the first individual Satyagrahi and Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru was the Second one.

British member of Parliament (House of Commons) Benziman Disraeli admitted the revolt of 1857 as a National Revolt.

The English Education Act 1835 was the Council of India's statutory act, which gave effect to a decision by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, in 1835, to reallocate funds that the British Parliament needed to spend on education and literature in India.

The Panchsheel, or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was first officially signed on April 29 1954 between India and the Tibet region of China. The agreement was signed between Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister, and the first Chinese Prime Minister, Chou En-Lai. The Five Principles are: mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.

The song Vande Mataram, composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterji, was a source of inspiration to the people in their struggle for freedom.

The Portuguese arrived first (Vasco da Gama in 1498), followed by the Dutch, the English, and finally the French (French East India Company established in 1664). The French arrival set the stage for the Anglo-French rivalry in the Carnatic Wars.

The Indian Councils Act of 1909 is also known as the Morley-Minto Reforms. It was series of reform measures enacted in 1909 by the British Parliament.

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.

On the night of June 7, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off the train's first-class (whites-only) compartment at Pietermaritzburg station, Durban in South Africa for refusing to give up his seat.