Modern History Quiz 4

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.

Subsidiary Alliance was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805. The Permanent Settlement of Bengal was brought into effect by the East India Company headed by Governor-General Lord Cornwallis in 1793. Doctrine of lapse formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56). The first Partition of Bengal was Announced on 19 July 1905 by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India.

In December 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar and Motilal Nehru formed the Congress-Khilafat Swarajaya Party with Das as the president and Nehru as one of the secretaries.

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.

The All India Muslim League was established in the year 1906 in Dhaka Bangaladesh in Britsh ruled India. The founders of the Muslim League were: Khwaja Salimullah, Vikar-ul-Mulk, Syed Amir Ali, Syed Nabiullah, Khan Bahadur Ghulam and Mustafa Chowdhury.

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

January 26 was celebrated as India's Independence Day in 1930. January 26, 1930, was set as the date for independence after the Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared “Purna Swaraj”, or Complete Independence, as its ultimate goal in Lahore in December 1929.

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.

Indian Council Act of 1909 is also known as Morley- Minto Reform. It was instituted to placate the Moderates (Congress) and introduces separate electorates on the basis of religion. Therefore, Lord Minto came to be known as Father of Communal Electorate in India.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was an Indian politician, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure in the Indian independence movement and the Hindu Mahasabha. He wrote History of India in the Marathi language on the walls of the Andaman Cellular Jail.