Modern History Quiz 4

The Indian High Courts Act 1861 was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to authorize the Crown to create High Courts in the Indian colony. Queen Victoria created the High Courts in Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay by Letters Patent in 1862. John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, between 1858 and 1869, became a prominent British Imperial statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869.

Lord Hardinge held a durbar in December 1911 to celebrate the coronation of King George V. Here, the partition of Bengal was cancelled and the capital shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.

Partition of Bengal (1905) - Surat split of Congress (1907) - Lucknow Pact (1916).

Dadabhai Naoroji was elected for the Liberal Party in Finsbury Central at the 1892 general election, he was the first British Indian MP.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is known as the “Bismarck of India” due to his efforts of consolidating the fragmented parts of a divided India.

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 correct sequence is as follows: Cripps Mission — 1942; Wavell Plan — 1945; Cabinet Mission — 1946; Radcliffe Award — 1947

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.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

Three Round table Conferences were held in London in 1930,1931,1932. B.R. Ambedkar and Tej Bahadur Sapru had attended all the Three Round Table Conferences. Gandhi Ji attended second Round table Conferences.