Modern Indian History Quiz

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.

Mahatma Gandhi got the inspiration of Civil Disobedience and non-payment of taxes by reading a book of David Thoreau who was an American author, poet, philosopher.

He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He established the foundations of the modern educational system in India by adding mass education in addition to elite higher education. Lord Dalhousie introduced Postage stamp, he also introduced Railway, Telegram and PWD.

Indian Universities were first founded during the period of Lord Canning. The University of Calcutta is the oldest of the modern universities in India. It was founded in 1857 during the administration of Lord canning (1856-1862).

Partition Committee was formed which was chaired by Lord Mountbatten. Its members were Vallabh Bhai Patel, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Liaqat Ali Khan and Abdur Rab Nishtar.

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India. It was a farmer's uprising that took place in Champaran district of Bihar, during the British colonial period.

In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajaya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.

The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

The Permanent Settlement of Bengal was brought into effect by the East India Company headed by the Governor-General Lord Cornwallis in 1793.

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.