Modern History Quiz 3

Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, was a day of nationwide protest by the Indian Muslim community announced by Jinnah. It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta in the Bengal province of British India.

The 19th Century reawakening in India was confined to the upper-middle class.

Lord Dufferin's tenure was from 1884 to 1888. During his tenure, the Indian National Congress was founded in December 1885. Indian National Congress conducted its first session in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885 at the initiative of retired Civil Service officer Allan Octavian Hume. Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee became its first president. In the first session of the Indian National Congress, some government officials were also present.

The British introduced the railways in India in order to facilitate British commerce and administrative control. They introduced the railway to ease their own transportation and faster supply of raw materials.

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.

The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic 'Purna Swaraj' – (total independence) resolution – at its Lahore session. The newly adopted tricolour flag was unfurled at this session of the Indian National Congress.

Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college-level institution, known as Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School.

The Ahmedabad Satyagraha of Gandhi was the second Satyagraha movement after the Champaran Satyagraha aimed to support the cotton mill workers.

The Bengal Sati Regulation, which declared Sati illegal and punishable, was passed by Governor-General Lord William Bentinck in 1829. This was a landmark social reform initiated largely due to the efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy.

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conferences organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India.