Modern History Quiz 4

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.

The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. The code was drafted on the recommendations of the first law commission of India under the Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay. It came into force in British India during the early British Period in 1862.

Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was founded in 1875 by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, initially as a primary school, with the intention of taking it to a college-level institution, known as Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental Collegiate School.

The court is one of the three High Courts in India established in the three Presidency Towns of Madras, Bombay and Calcutta by letters patent granted by Queen Victoria, bearing date 26 June 1862. The Calcutta High Court is the oldest high court in the country, established on 2 July 1862.

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 rulers of Vijayanagar promoted Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. Tamil and Telugu became the lingua-franca of the Vijayanagara Empire. Some scholars also opine that Sanskrit acted as a lingua-franca, but it must have been only so among the elites and the literate.

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.

Portuguese controlled maximum trade in western coastal region during 17th century. By the middle of the 17th century, there were several thousand Portuguese and Indo Portuguese in India and a relatively small population of other Indo Europeans.

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

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.