Modern History Quiz 2

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.

Malik Kafur (died 1316), also known as Taj al-Din Izz al-Dawla, was a prominent slave-general of the Delhi Sultanate ruler Alauddin Khalji. Kafur occupied Madurai on 24 April and reached Delhi in triumph on 18 October 1311.

The Charter Act of 1833 made the Governor-General of Bengal the Governor-General of India. Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835), already the Governor-General of Bengal, thus became the first Governor-General of India.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi considered Khadi as a symbol of unity, economic independence and equality of Indians. He used to say that Khadi is a respectable business of earning bread for the poor.

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.

On 8th August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' movement. The next day (9th August 1942), Gandhi, Nehru and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government.

The English Education Act 1835 was the Council of India's statutory act, which gave effect to a decision by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, in 1835, to reallocate funds that the British Parliament needed to spend on education and literature in India.

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.

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