Modern History Quiz 4

A committee declared the formation of the Congress' defence team for the soldiers of the Indian National Army and included famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru, Tej Bahadur Sapru, Kailash Nath Katju and Lt. Col Horilal Varma Bar at Law.

4. Treaty of Salbai (17 May 1782); 3. Treaty of Seringapatam (18 March 1792); 2. Treaty of Bassein (31 Dec 1802); 1. Treaty of Amritsar (16 March 1846)

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 Bengal Sati Regulation which banned the Sati practice in all jurisdictions of British India was passed on 4 December 1829 by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.

The first factory in Bengal was established in 1651 at Hughli. This was followed by other factories at Patna and Qasim Bazar.

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.

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.

Cabinet Mission was a high-powered mission sent in February 1946 to India by the Atlee Government (British Prime Minister). The mission came to India aiming to discuss the transfer of powers from the British government to the Indian leadership, with the aim of preserving India's unity and granting its independence.

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.

The Subsidiary Alliance System (1798) was introduced by Lord Wellesley. It was a non-intervention policy that forced the Indian states that accepted it to cede territory, maintain a British contingent, and accept a British Resident, thereby losing their independence.