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.

The Lucknow Pact was an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League (AIMLM) at a joint session of both the parties held in Lucknow in December 1916. Through the pact, the two parties agreed to allow representation to religious minorities in the provincial legislatures.

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.

Dyarchy system of double government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is known as the “Bismarck of India” due to his efforts of consolidating the fragmented parts of a divided India.

The most remarkable feature of the Government of India Act 1935 was provincial autonomy. With the abolition of Dyarchy at provinces, the entire provincial administration was instructed to the responsible ministers who were controlled and removed by the provincial legislatures.

Shivaswami Iyer examined the Simon commission Report and said that this report should be thrown on a heap of rubbish. He was a prominent lawyer, administrator and statesman who served as the Advocate General of Madras from 1907 to 1911.

Partition of Bengal (1905) - Surat split of Congress (1907) - Lucknow Pact (1916).

The Battle of Wandiwash (1760), part of the Third Carnatic War, was fought between the British forces led by General Eyre Coote and the French led by Count de Lally. The British victory permanently destroyed the French power in India, confining them only to Pondicherry.

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.