Modern History Quiz 4

Dyarchy is a system of double government introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India.

The Wood's Despatch of 1854 recommended the establishment of universities at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah became disillusioned with politics after the failure of his attempt to form a Hindu-Muslim alliance, and he spent most of the 1920s in Britain. The leadership of the League was taken over by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, who in 1930 first put forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India.

1915, barely five months after the ban on “Al-Hilal”, Maulana Azad started the publication of the “Al-Balagh” weekly. It was similar in its content to “Al-Hilal”.

When three captured Indian National Army (INA) officers, Shahnawaz Khan, Prem Kumar Sahgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon were put on trial for treason, the Congress formed a Defence committee composed of 17 advocates including Bhulabhai Desai. The INA trials began at the Red Fort in November 1945.

Jawaharlal Nehru had attended the Congress of Oppressed Nationalities at Brussels in 1927, on behalf of the National Congress.

Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mahatma Gandhi in March–April 1930. Based on Gandhi's principle of non-violence or Satyagraha, the march marked the inauguration of the civil disobedience movement.

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.

The Bengal Sati Regulation, which declared Sati illegal and punishable, was passed by Governor-General Lord William Bentinck in 1829. This was a landmark social reform initiated largely due to the efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy.

Mahatma Gandhi first imparted a mass character to the Indian National Congress.