Modern Indian History Quiz

Acharya J.B. Kripalani was the President of Indian National Congress when Mountbatten plan of independence was accepted. He was noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer of power in 1947 and the husband of Sucheta Kripalani.

The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' – (total independence) resolution – at its Lahore session. The newly adopted tricolour flag was unfurled at this session of the Indian National Congress.

The demand for Swaraj was first raised by Dadabhai Naoroji in the Calcutta Session of India National Congress in 1906. According to him, 'Swaraj' means self Government.

The 19th Century reawakening in India was confined to the upper-middle class.

The province of Bengal was partitioned into largely Muslim eastern areas and largely Hindu western areas. Announced on 19th July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India, and implemented on 16 October 1905, it was undone a mere six years later.

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.

There is a theory that AO Hume formed the Congress with the idea that it would prove to be a 'safety valve' for releasing the growing discontent of the Indians. Complete Independence was not a demand of the Early Congress (1885–1905).

Following the Battle of Plassey, the Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah fled the battle, was later captured, and killed by Mir Jafar’s son, Miran. Mir Jafar was then installed as the puppet Nawab. The exchange of power was immediate and did not require a formal treaty with the deposed ruler. The Treaty of Allahabad (1765) was signed after the Battle of Buxar.

With a view to improving the condition of peasants, Curzon opened some banks, passed the Punjab Land Alienation Act in 1900 and the Cooperative Credit Societies Act in 1904, framed the 'Suspension and Remissions Resolution' in 1905, established an Imperial Agriculture Department and established an Agriculture Research.

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.