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.

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.

Charles John Canning was the governor-general of India during the Revolt of 1857.

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.

The August Offer was made by Viceroy Linlithgow in 1940 promising the expansion of the Executive Council of the Viceroy of India to include more Indians, the establishment of an advisory war council, giving full weight to minority opinion, and the recognition of Indians' right to frame their own constitution.

Dadabhai Naoroji also known as the “Grand Old Man of India” and “Unofficial Ambassador of India” He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895 and the first Asian to be a British MP other than the Anglo-Indian MP David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre.

Sir B.N. Rau was appointed as the Constitutional Adviser on the establishment of the Constituent Assembly on July 1, 1946, which he accepted to serve on an honourary basis.

The Panchsheel, or Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, was first officially signed on April 29 1954 between India and the Tibet region of China. The agreement was signed between Jawaharlal Nehru, then Prime Minister, and the first Chinese Prime Minister, Chou En-Lai. The Five Principles are: mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful co-existence.