Modern History Quiz 4

The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act of 1856 was primarily the result of the tireless campaign led by scholar and reformer Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. The Act was passed just before the Revolt of 1857, during the tenure of Lord Canning (who was Viceroy when the Act was finally passed, though the policy was initiated by Dalhousie).

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.

The Congress Socialist Party was a socialist group within the Indian National Congress (INC). It was founded in 1934 by socialists such as Acharya Narendra Dev, Jayaprakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohia and Minoo Masani.

The Union of India, also called the Dominion of India (Bharatiya Adhirajya), was an independent dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations between 15 August 1947 and 26 January 1950. India attained “Dominion Status” on 15 Aug 1947 by the Mountbatten plan.

Albert Einstein was highly impressed with Mahatma Gandhi and he stated this statement after Gandhi's death.

On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Lord Irwin was the Viceroy of India during Civil Disobedience Movement.

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.

Dadabhai Naoroji's work focused on the drain of wealth from India to Britain during the British rule in India.

The Swadeshi Movement was launched against the decision of the British Government (Lord Curzon) to divide Bengal along communal lines. This movement was formally started from Town Hall Calcutta on 7 August 1905 to curb foreign goods by relying on domestic production. Swadeshi was a focus of Mahatma Gandhi, who described it as the soul of swaraj (self-rule).

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.