Modern History Quiz 4

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Lord Cornwallis introduced the Permanent Settlement (or Permanent Revenue Settlement) in 1793 in Bengal and Bihar. This system fixed the land revenue in perpetuity with the Zamindars, who were recognized as the owners of the land.

This desire for Indian unity was symbolized by the Cabinet Mission, which arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946, sent by the British government, in which the subject was the form of a post-independent India.

The British introduced the railways in India in order to facilitate British commerce and administrative control. They introduced the railway to ease their own transportation and faster supply of raw materials.

Dyarchy system of double government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India. It marked the first introduction of the democratic principle into the executive branch of the British administration of India.

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.

Annie Besant was the first woman to have presided the Congress session held at Calcutta in 1917. Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman President of Congress. She was elected as the President of the Indian National Congress Party in 1925.

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 Battle of Wandiwash (1760), part of the Third Carnatic War, was fought between the British forces led by General Eyre Coote and the French led by Count de Lally. The British victory permanently destroyed the French power in India, confining them only to Pondicherry.

The Secretariat Building was designed by the prominent British architect Herbert Baker in Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture. Sir Herbert Baker was a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.