Modern Indian History Quiz

The Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II granted the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the East India Company in 1765. Based on the terms of the agreement, Alam granted the East India Company Diwani rights, or the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Emperor.

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.

Charles John Canning was the governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857.

Hicky's Bengal Gazette was the first English-language newspaper published on the Indian subcontinent. It was founded in Calcutta, capital of British India at the time, by Irishman James Augustus Hicky in 1779.

The Instrument of Accession was a legal document first introduced by the Government of India Act 1935 and used in 1947 to enable each of the rulers of the princely states under British paramountcy to join one of the new dominions of India or Pakistan created by the Partition of British India. PGN Unnithan, the then Diwan of Travancore was the first to sign the 'Instruments of Accession'.

Indian Council Act of 1909 is also known as Morley- Minto Reform. It was instituted to placate the Moderates (Congress) and introduces separate electorates on the basis of religion. Therefore, Lord Minto came to be known as Father of Communal Electorate in India.

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.

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.

Home Rule League, either of two short-lived organizations of the same name in India established in April and September 1916, respectively, by Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant.

A.O Hume (Allan Octavian Hume) is called the father of the Indian National Congress. Retired British Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer A.O Hume founded the Indian National Congress in 1885.