Modern History Quiz 3

A.O Hume (Allan Octavian Hume) is called the father of the Indian National Congress. Retired British Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer A.O Hume founded the Indian National Congress in 1885.

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.

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.

Awadh was annexed by Lord Dalhousie in 1856 on the basis of alleged misgovernance, a policy that greatly alienated the local population and was a major factor in the Revolt of 1857. Satara, Jhansi, and Nagpur were annexed using the Doctrine of Lapse.

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, was the Maharani consort of the Maratha princely state of Jhansi from 1843 to 1853 as the wife of Maharaja Gangadhar Rao. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and became a symbol of resistance to the British Raj for Indian nationalists.

Danish India was the name given to the colonies of Denmark (Denmark–Norway before 1814) in India, forming part of the Danish colonial empire. Danish was the one who had not any settlement on the eastern coast of India whereas French settlement in Pondicherry, Portugese have Goa and Dutch in Kochi.

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.

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a political Organisation formed under the leadership of B.R. Ambedkar on 15 August 1936. Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF) was an organisation in India founded by B.R. Ambedkar in 1942 to campaign for the rights of the Dalit community.

After the death of Aurangzeb, a war of succession broke out among his three surviving sons. His second son, Prince Muazzam, defeated his brothers and ascended the throne with the title of Bahadur Shah I (or Shah Alam I). The death of Aurangzeb and the subsequent weakness of his successors are generally considered the start of the decline of the mighty Mughal Empire.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak found the first home rule league at the Bombay provincial congress at Belgaum in April 1916. Then after this Annie Besant founded the second league at Adyar Madras in September 1916.