Modern History Quiz 3

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

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.

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.

On 25 March 1505, Francisco de Almeida was appointed Viceroy of India, on the condition that he would set up four forts on the southwestern Indian coast: at Anjediva Island, Cannanore, Cochin and Quilon.

After joining the Indian National Congress and taking part in political agitation in Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai was deported to Mandalay, Burma in 1907.

The Battle of Wandiwash was a battle in India between the French and the British in 1760. The battle was part of the Third Carnatic War fought between the French and British colonial empires, which itself was a part of the global Seven Years War.

Sardar Bhagat Singh was a founder of the Punjab Naujawan Bharat Sabha in 1926. It was an association that sought to foment revolution against the British Raj by gathering together worker and peasant youths.

Annie Besant was the first woman to have presided the Congress session held at Calcutta in 1917. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman President of Congress. She was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925.

Murshid Quli Khan was the founder of the independent dynasty of Nawabs of Bengal. He was initially appointed as the Diwan of Bengal by Aurangzeb and later assumed the titles of Nazim (Governor) and Diwan (revenue collector) of Bengal, Bihar, and Odisha, establishing his hereditary rule.

Pondicherry was an important French possession in India. The French East India Company acquire Pondicherry from the Sultan of Bijapur.