Modern History Quiz 4

Sardar Bhagat Singh was a founder of the Punjab Naujawan Bharat Sabha in 1926. It was an association that sought to foment revolution against the British Raj by gathering together worker and peasant youths.

Pondicherry was an important French possession in India. The French East India Company acquire Pondicherry from the Sultan of Bijapur.

Lord William Bentinck met with Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Ropar, on the bank of the Sutlej, in the spring of 1831. He had entertained Ranjit Singh with great honour.

The Commission was strongly opposed by many Indians. It was opposed by Nehru, Gandhi, Jinnah, the Muslim League and Indian National Congress because it contained seven members of the British Parliament but no Indians. Indians saw it as a violation to their right of self-determination and insult to their self-respect.

On the night of June 7, 1893, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off the train's first-class (whites-only) compartment at Pietermaritzburg station, Durban in South Africa for refusing to give up his seat.

“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge...” This was stated on the night of August 14, 1947 by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Aruna Asaf Ali was an active participant in the Indian independence movement, she is widely remembered for hoisting the Indian National flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, Bombay during a Quit India Movement in 1942.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi got the inspiration of Civil Disobedience and non-payment of taxes by reading a book of David Thoreau who was an American author, poet, philosopher.

The civil disobedience movement commenced with the Dandi March when Gandhi left the Sabarmati Ashram at Ahmedabad on foot with 78 other members of the Ashram for Dandi on 12 March 1930. After reaching Dandi, Gandhi broke the salt law.