Modern India Question and Answer

Short Question and Answers

1. Who led the Bardoli Satyagarha?
   Vithalbhai Patel

2. When did Gandhiji started his Salt March?
   12 March 1930

3. When did Civil Disobedience movement started?
   6 April, 1930

4. Who was the hero of Vaikom Satyagraha?
   K Kelappan

5. Under whose leadership, Koya tribals fought the colonial govt to protect their forest rights during 1922-24?
   Ramachandra Raju

6. What was popular name of Khudai Khidmatgars?
   Red shirts

7. Gandhiji marched from Sabarmati to Dandi with how many followers?
   78

8. Which American journalist reported during the salt satyagraha?
   Webb Miller

9. You planned a fine strategy around the issue of salt: Who said this to Gandhiji?
   Lord Irwin

10. Who was the first president of AITUC?
    Lajpat Rai

11. Who started Dina Bandhu?
    N.M Lokhande

12. Who founded the Working Men’s Club?
    Sasipada Banerjee

13. When was the first strike organized by Indian working class?
    1899

14. When was first Factories Act enacted?
    1881

15. When was Bombay Mill and Millhand’s Association set up?
    1890

16. Which was the first newspaper dedicated to the cause of workers in India?
    Bharat Shramjeevi

17. When was the no tax campaign launched in Bardoli?
    1928

18. Which was the Mopla rebellion epicentre?
    Malabar

19. Who led the Eka movement?
    Madan Pasi

20. When was Oudh Rent Act legislated?
    1921

21. Mangal Pandey was soldier in which army unit?
    Barrackpore

22. Who was the de facto leader of revolt of 1857 at Lucknow?
    Maulavi Ahmadullah

23. Who was the de jure head of the revolt of 1857 at Lucknow?
    Birzis Qadr

24. Where were British forces defeated at Battle for Audh?
    Chinhat

25. Who led the revolt against British in Rohilakhand?
    Khan Bahadur

26. When did British government announced special order of knighthood to Indian princes?
    1861

27. The army stationed in which province remained loyal to British masters?
    Madras

28. When was Awadh annexed by British?
    1856

29. When was Nagpur annexed by British?
    1854

30. Which governor general annexed Awadh?
    Lord Dalhousie

31. When was Indigo revolt happened?
    1859-60

32. When did East India Company set up first Indigo plantation?
    1770

33. Who wrote the play Nil Darpan?
    Dinabandhu Mitra

34. Which newspaper gave an extensive coverage to indigo riots and written extensively on the plight of indigo cultivators?
    The Bengali

35. When did British government set up an official inquiry to investigate the causes behind indigo riots?
    1860

36. When was Pabna peasant revolt occurs?
    1873-85

37. When did Pabna peasants form an agrarian league?
    1873

38. Which newspaper criticized the formation of Pabna Agrarian League?
    Amrit Bazar Patrika

39. When did Deccan riots occur?
    1875

40. Which organization took up the cause of Deccan peasants?
    Poona Sarvajanik Sabha

41. Which peasant revolt was painted by the colonial government as communal?
    Moplah

42. When did the Deccan Agriculturists Relief Act was passed?
    1879

43. Where did Kuka revolt occur?
    Punjab

44. Who led the Kuka revolt?
    Baba Ram Singh

45. Who held this view : Sati is a murder according to every Shastra?
    Ram Mohan Roy

46. Who made this call: Only one god and one caste for mankind ?
    Narayan Guru

47. Who organized Nav Bidhan?
    Kesab Chandra Sen

48. Who campaigned for widow remarriage?
    Vidyasagar

49. Who set up Tattvabodini Sabha?
    Debendranath Tagore

50. Lex Loci Act was legislated in which year?
    1850

51. Who is revered as Grand Old Man of India?
    D.B Naoroji

52. Who published the newspaper The Bengali?
    S.N Banerjee

53. Who developed the theory of Drain of Wealth?
    Dadabhai Naoroji

54. Who had equated expenditure on railway as decorating anothers wife?
    Tilak

55. By the provisions of the Government of India Act how many Indians were nominated in the Governor-General’s Council?
    Three

56. In which British India province a Legislative Council was first established?
    Bengal

57. Who first made the demand of Swaraj ?
    Naoroji

58. When was the Police Act enacted?
    1861

59. Who did Gandhiji considered his political guru?
    B.G Tilak

60. Which nationalist leader became famous for his budget speeches in Bombay Legislative Council with and without the premises?
    G.K .Gokhale

61. Who made this statement : Bengal united is power,Bengal divided ,will pull several different ways?
    Risley,Home Secretary

62. In which year Lord Curzon reduced the number of elected members in the Calcutta Corporation?
    1902

63. When was the Universities Act passed?
    1904

64. Who put forward the Boycott suggestion in the backdrop of partition of Bengal?
    Aurobindo Ghosh

65. Who described the Swadeshi and boycott movement as a method of passive resistance?
    B.C Pal

66. Who described resistance to British as a refusal to render any voluntary or honorary service to the Government?
    Bipin Chandra Pal

67. When was Bengal Tenancy Act was passed?
    1885

68. When was Muslim League established?
    Oct 1906

69. Muslim League was established under whose leadership?
    Nawab Salimullah

70. In the first decade of the 20th century which district was at the epicentre of communal riots in the East Bengal?
    Barisaal

71. Where was the Annual Congress in 1907 held?
    Surat

72. Who gave the call for Arandhan during Swadeshi and boycott movement?
    Aswini Kumar Dutt

73. Gandhi-Irwin pact was accepted by the Congress in 1931 at which place?
    Karachi

74. In which annual session Congress made its memorable resolution on Fundamental Rights?
    Karachi

75. Who replaced Irwin as viceroy of India?
    Lord Willingdon