Modern History Quiz 2

Lord William Bentinck met with Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Ropar, on the bank of the Sutlej, in the spring of 1831. He had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour.

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).

Vernacular Press Act of 1878, proposed by Lytton the then Viceroy of India (1876-80). It was meant only for vernacular/ native language newspapers not for English ones.

Tilak found the first home rule league at the Bombay provincial congress at Belgaum in April 1916.

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.

The company established trading posts in Surat (1619), Madras (1639), Bombay (1668), and Calcutta (1690).

The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' (total independence) resolution at its Lahore session. A public declaration was made on 26 January 1930 – a day which the Congress Party urged Indians to celebrate as Independence Day.

The correct match is as follows:

January 26 was celebrated as India's Independence Day in 1930. January 26, 1930, was set as the date for independence after the Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared “Purna Swaraj”, or Complete Independence, as its ultimate goal in Lahore in December 1929.

Congress held a special session in Calcutta in September 1920 under the presidentship of Lala Lajpat Rai. It met to pass the resolution of the Non-Cooperation Movement.