Modern History Quiz 3

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.

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.

The Swaraj Party was established as the Congress-Khilafat Swaraj Party. It was a political party formed in 1923 after the Gaya annual conference in December 1922 of the National Congress. C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru were the founders of the Swaraj Party.

Rabindranath Tagore is said to have used this title for Gandhi on 6 March 1915.

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.

Dyarchy system of double government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India. It marked the first introduction of the democratic principle into the executive branch of the British administration of India.

Lord Hardinge held a durbar in December 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V. Here, the partition of Bengal was cancelled and the capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.

The Lucknow Pact was an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League (AIMLM) at a joint session of both parties held in Lucknow in December 1916.

Lord Ripon is known as the Father of Local Self Government in India. His scheme of local self-government developed the Municipal institutions which had been growing up in the country ever since.

Mahatma Gandhi first imparted a mass character to the Indian National Congress.