Modern History Quiz 3

The Dual System of Government was introduced in Bengal by Robert Clive (Governor of Bengal, 1765-1767) following the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765. Under this system, the British acquired the Diwani (revenue collection) while the Nizamat (administrative and police functions) remained nominally with the Nawab, leading to chaos and exploitation.

When three captured Indian National Army (INA) officers, Shahnawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were put on trial for treason, the Congress formed a Defence committee composed of 17 advocates including Bhulabhai Desai. The INA trials began at the Red Fort in November 1945.

Champaran Satyagraha (1917, first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi); Rowlatt Satyagraha (was in response to Rowlatt Act of 1919); Bardoli Satyagraha (1928, Sardar Vallabh Bhi Patel led the Bardoli Satyagraha.)

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

On November 1, 1858, a grand Darbar was held at Allahabad. Here Lord Canning sent forth the royal proclamation which announced that the queen had assumed the government of India. This proclamation declared the future policy of the British Rule in India.

Tilak was charged with the seditious writings. He was sentenced to a jail term from 1908 to 1914 in Mandalay in Burma.

He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He established the foundations of the modern educational system in India by adding mass education in addition to elite higher education. Lord Dalhousie introduced Postage stamp, he also introduced Railway, Telegram and PWD.

The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. He called for determined, but passive resistance that signified the certitude that Gandhi foresaw for the movement, best described by his call to Do or Die.

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 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.