Modern History Quiz 2

Three Round table Conferences were held in London in 1930,1931,1932. B.R. Ambedkar and Tej Bahadur Sapru had attended all the Three Round Table Conferences. Gandhi Ji attended second Round table Conferences.

Permanent Settlement was introduced in Bengal and Bihar in 1793 by Lord Cornwallis. It had two special features. Firstly, the zamindars and revenue collectors were converted into so many landlords.

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22-23 October 1764, between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, led by Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal till 1764; the Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. The battle resulted in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, in which the Mughal Emperor surrendered sovereignty of Bengal to the British.

JP Narayan convened a meeting in Patna on 17 May 1934, which founded the Bihar Congress Socialist Party. He was a Gandhian Socialist. Narayan became general secretary of the party and Acharya Narendra Deva became president.

The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in March–April 1930.

The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act of 1856 was primarily the result of the tireless campaign led by scholar and reformer Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. The Act was passed just before the Revolt of 1857, during the tenure of Lord Canning (who was Viceroy when the Act was finally passed, though the policy was initiated by Dalhousie).

British India's first telegraph line and office was opened in October 1851, between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour along the busy shipping route on the Hooghly. Telegraph line between Calcutta and Agra was started in 1853, and this was further connected to Bombay and Madras.

The state of Punjab was annexed by Lord Dalhousie in 1849 by defeating Sikh forces in the 2nd Anglo-Sikh war fought during 1848-49.

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 Communal Award, announced by Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932, ensured the retention of separate electorates for Muslims, Sikhs and Europeans.