Modern History Quiz 4

The Indian High Courts Act 1861 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to authorize the Crown to create High Courts in the Indian colony. Queen Victoria created the High Courts in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay by Letters Patent in 1862. John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, between 1858 and 1869, became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale met Gandhiji in South Africa. He was the political Guru of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Battle of Buxar was fought on 22-23 October 1764, between the forces under the command of the British East India Company, led by Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal till 1764; the Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II. The battle resulted in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, in which the Mughal Emperor surrendered sovereignty of Bengal to the British.

The word Swaraj was first of all used by Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Lokmanya Tilak's slogan “Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it...” caught the imagination of a country fighting to free itself from colonial rule.

The All India Women's Conference is a non-governmental organisation based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tackle other women's rights issues.

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

All of the given answers choices are responsible for the decline of the Indian Handicrafts Industry in the 19th century.

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.

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.

Home Rule League, either of two short-lived organizations of the same name in India established in April and September 1916, respectively, by Indian nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant.