When did vasco da gama arrive?

The first Portugal governor ?

Who acquired the Goa from Sultan of Bijapur?

Portuguese got the Daman from which king?

First portuguese fort at?

The dutch first factory in?

Battle of hoogly between?

British first factory?

French got the Pondichery from?

Battle of plassey was fought in the time ?

Battle of buxar and third bag battle of Panipat fought in the period of?

Battle of Plessy was done by and year?

Battle of buxar done by and year ?

Anglo, Mysore, wars?

Anglo sikh wars?

Revolt of Moamarias?

Poligars revolt?
The ulgulan?

Mukti larai movement ?

Tana bhagat movement?

Sidhu and kanhu involved in?

Rampa revolts?

How revolt of 1857 begin ?

Kanpur- Khan bahadur

Bihar - nana saheb

Lucknow - maulvi abdullah

Faizalabad - Begum hazrat mahal

Bareilly - Kunwar singh??

Baghpat - Shah Mal?

What is the consequence of 1857 rev?

The direct responsibility for the administration of the country was assumed by the
British crown ?

There was secretary of state for India ?

Company rule was continued ?

Annexations continued ?

Who founded the all India Harijan sangh?

Who founded the all India women’s conference ?

Who launched the newspaper Vital Vidhwansak?

Mooknayak?

Bahishkrit hitakarani?
All india depressed classes - amberkar?

Brahmo samaj?

Vedanta college?

Pratharna samaj?

Young bengal movement led by?

Who founded the bethune school?

Darpan by?

Satyasodhak samaj by?

Native female school by?

Bavankashi subodh ratnakar?

Servants of indian society?

Justice movement?

The theosophical movement founded by?

Vernacular press act?

Arms act?

Ilbert bill?

Bangabasha prakasika sabha?

Poona sarvajanik sabha?

Bombay presidency Association ?

Madras native Association - Viraragachavari?

Madras, Mahajan, Saba - Lakshminarasu chetty?

Indian Association of Kolkata ?

The first session of the Indian national Congress was presided over by?

-dadabhair naroji; mg ranade; womesh chandra?

Who was the first woman to address the Congress session?

What is the safety valve theory?

Dadabai, ferozshah,bonnerjee were?

Why did the British want to partition Bengal?

When did the partition of Bengal came into force? Oct 6 or 16 1905?

Why did the swadeshi movement happen?

National council of education was set up ?

What are the stand of Muslims during Swadeshi movement?

When did the Delhi became capital?

Why did the moderates and extremist split?

What was main, objective of morley minto reforms, 1909 ?

Who is the first Indian to be appointed in 1909 in VR executive Council?

Lala hardayal, bhai paramanand, rash behari bose, sachin sanyal are associated
with?

New India, and commenweal were?

Why did the hunter committee was formed?

All India home rule league was Tilak?

The all India home rule league name was changed to ?

What was the Lucknow pact?

When was Dyarchy evolved? M

Champaran - first hunger strike

Ahmedabad mil, strike - first mass strike

Keda, Satyagraha - first civil disobedience

Rowlatt satyagraha- first non-corporation

The Rowlet act was for what ?

Jallianwala bagh massacre was?

What was the main feature of government of India act 1919?

Champaran - farmers tax?

Ahmedabad - tinkathia system, indigo planters?

Kheda - mill strike??

What was the Kalafat issue?

What was the non-cooperation movement ?

Chauri chara incident?

What are the three demands of non-cooperation movement

What made Gandhi withdraw the movement of non-corporation?

Hindustan Republican association army was founded by Ramprasad

Bismil ,jogeshChandra Chatterji ?

What was the difference between no changers and Swarajists?

Lee commission - working of the constitution?

Mudiman committee - agriculture

Linlythgow commission - civil services

What was the response of Indians to Simon commission?

What did the Simon commission recommend?

There was a universal franchise recommended by Simon commission ?

One of the main recommendations of Nehru report was -

Linguistic provinces

Fundamental rights

Freedom of religion ?

January 26, 1930 he was fixed as the first intermittent to be celebrated in which
session of Congress ?

Dandi march happened in?

Salt satyagaraha :-

Tamilnadu?

Malabar?

Orissa?

Bengal?

Peshawar?

Dharasana?

On based Gandhi irwin pact-

Government agreed on immediate release of all political representers not convicted

of violence?

Commutation of Bhagat Singh ?

Return of all the land not sold ?

Withdrawal of emergency ordinances ?

Public inquiry into Police excess??

What was the impact of Karachi Congress session?

Why did the civil disobedience resume?

What was the poona pact?

Congress rejected the communal award ?

The main features of the government of India at 1935-

Direct election to the lower house and indirect election to the upper house?

Provincial autonomy replaced dyarchy?

Women got the right to vote?

Reserve subjects included foreign affairs, defense, Tribal areas?

The national planning committee was set up under the Presidentship of - Rajendra
prasad, Nehru, Bose??

Gandhi against british in WW 2?

Bose was in middle?

Nehru in favor of British?

What was the august offer by Linlinthigow?

Who was the first to offer satyagraha (individual) during 1940?

What was the purpose of Crips mission?

Why did Crips mission fail?

Quit india movement launched on?

Which of the personalities took up underground activity ?- aruna asaf, usha mehta,
ram manohar lohia , biju pantaik, lala rajput?
Communists and Hindu mahasabha supported the quit India movement?

What was the Rajagopalachari formula?

What was the wavell plan?

The idea of creating an army out of the Indian prisoners of war, was originally of
rash Bihari bose?

Tebaga movement,worli revolt, ROyal indian navy revolt happened during?

What was the cabinet mission about?

Grouping of existing provincial assemblies into two sections was one of the outcome
of Cabinet Mission ?

Punjab Hindu Saba was founded by ?

Mount Batten plan was about?

Why Congress accepted dominion status ?

EXTRA NOTES :-

GOI ACT 1919 : -The reserved subjects came under the heading of law and order and
included justice, the police, land revenue, and irrigation. The transferred subjects (i.e.,
those under the control of Indian ministers) included local self-government, education,
public health, public works, and agriculture, forests, and fisheries. The system ended
with the introduction of provincial autonomy in 1935.

The English East India. Company established a factory at Madras on a plot of land
leased from a representative of the Vijayanagara empire.
 SURAT,BROACH,AHMEDABAD,AGRA, MASULIPATNAM were the places of factories
set up by the East India Company -1600-1625(first quarter of seventeenth century

The Government of India Act of 1935 gave women reserved seats in legislature.

Baldev Singh, John Mathai, Bhabba, Jagjivanram, Asaf ali, Ibrahim ismail, Abdur rab
nishtar, Jogendra nath mandal were Ministers of interim government.

Rajendra Prasad was the President of the Constituent Assembly ; BN Rau – Advisor ;
Chairman –Ambedkar ; Alladi, Gopalaswamy,Munshi,Saiyad mohd, Mitter,Khaitan,
Madhava rao, TT Krishnamachari – Members.

leaders of swadeshi and boycott movement : Dadabhai Naoroji, Gopal Krishna

Gokhale, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Ganesh Vyankatesh Joshi, and
Bhaswat K. Nigoni.

21 February is declared as International Mother Language Day by UNESCO. The idea to

celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It
was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed
throughout the world since 2000. The demand that Bangla has to be one of the national
languages was raised in the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. Which was rejected !

With reference to the book “Desher Katha” written by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar
during the freedom struggle, consider the following statements:

1. It warned against the Colonial State’s hypnotic conquest of the mind.

2. It inspired the performance of swadeshi street plays and folk songs.

Mahatma Gandhi was instrumental in the abolition of the system of Indentured

labour’.
 Pitt's India Act 1784 - It established an authority in England to supervise the
company's affairs. This is known as the Board of Control which has 6 members. The
revenues of India were controlled by the British parliament through Pitts India Act
1784. The Governor-General in the council has more powers over Bombay and
Madras Governors in matters related to the War, Revenue and Diplomacy. In India, the
strength of the executive council was reduced from four to three.

Charter Act of 1813 - The monopoly of EIC was abolished in terms of trade with
India. The company still enjoyed the monopoly in terms of tea and trade with china;
trade for 20 more years. This act provided a grant of one lakh rupees per annum for the
promotion of education in India. This act gave power to local governments to impose
and collect taxes. This act included a clause asserting the Crown's undoubted
sovereignty over all of the Company's territories and required it to open up India to
Christian missionaries.

Person : Position held

1. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru : President, All India Liberal Federation

Member, The
2. K. C. Neogy :
Constituent Assembly

3. P. C. Joshi : General Secretary, Communist Party of India

All India Kisan Sabha : Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

In the Federation established by The Government of India Act of 1935, residuary

powers were given to the Governor.
The staple commodities of export by the English East India Company from Bengal in the
middle of the 18th century were Cotton, silk, saltpetre and opium

Who among the following were the founders of the “Hind Mazdoor Sabha” established
in 1948? Ashok Mehta, T.S. Ramanujam and G.G. Mehta.

Subsidiary Alliance: It was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley to bring

Princely states under the control of the British. To counter the intrigues of Napoleon and
any further development of French Power in India, Wellesley, introduced Subsidiary
Alliance to eliminate the French Power from India and to maintain British Supremacy in
India. An Indian ruler entering into a subsidiary alliance with the British had to accept
British forces in his territory and also agreed to pay for their maintenance. The Indian
ruler would accept the British people in his state. The Indian ruler would not recruit any
Europeans other than the British, and if he were already doing so, he would dismiss
them.

Wood's Despatch: In 1854, Charles Wood prepared a Despatch on an educational

system for India. It was considered the "Magna Carta of English Education in India".
This document was the first comprehensive plan for the spread of education in India.
Some of the provisions of Charles Wood Despatch are as follows - It asked the
Government of India to assume responsibility for the education of the masses, thus
repudiating the 'downward filtration theory', at least on paper. It systematized the
hierarchy from vernacular primary schools in villages at the bottom, followed by Anglo-
Vernacular High Schools and an affiliated college at the district level, and affiliating
universities in the presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. It recommended
a system of grants-in-aid to encourage private enterprise.
It recommended English as the medium of instruction for higher studies and
vernaculars at the school level.

The Despatch recommended the establishment of universities in the three Presidency

towns of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. The universities were to be modeled after the
London University and these were to have a senate consisting of a Chancellor, a Vice-
Chancellor, and fellows who were nominated by the Government.
 following led to the introduction of English Education in India?

1. Charter Act of 1813

2. General Committee of Public Instruction, 1823

3. Orientalist and Anglicist Controversy

Calcutta Madrasa was set up by Warren Hastings in 1781 for the study and learning of
Persian and Arabic . In 1791, Jonathan Duncan opened Sanskrit College at Banaras
for the understanding of the laws, literature, and religion of the Hindus.
The Fort William College was set up by Lord Richard Wellesley in 1800 for the
training of the civil servants of the company in vernacular languages and customs of
India.

After the Santhal Uprising subsided, what was/were the measure/measures taken by
the colonial government?

1. The territories called ‘Santhal Paraganas’ were created.

2. It became illegal for a Santhal to transfer land to a non-Santhal

In the Federation established by The Government of India Act of 1935, residuary

powers were given to the Governor General.

Quit India Movement was launched in response to Cripps Proposal.

With reference to Indian History, the Members of the Constituent Assembly from the
Provinces were elected by the Provincial Legislative Assemblies.

Tebhaga movement – Reduction of share of landlords to one half to one third.

The Radcliffe Committee was appointed to delimit the boundaries.

Charles Wilkins was Englishman first translated Bhagat Geetha to English.

Poorna sarvajanik sabha submitted in 1875 appetition to the house of comments.

Whitley commission was organized for conditions of the labor .

Aim of education, as stated, by the woods dispatch of 1854 was the introduction of
scientific research and rationalism in Indian education.

Pitts India act Warren Hastings

Doctrine of lapse Dalhousie

Vernacular press act lytton

Ilbert bill Ripon

The vernacular press act was repealed by Lord Ripon .

Sepoy mutiny happened during the time of Lord Canning .

Ishwar chandra start with the newspaper Shome. And written the book called
Bahubivah.

The first telegraph line in India was laid between Kolkata and diamond harbor.

The first export processing zone in India, set up in Kandala.

The Portuguese established the factory in Polish area at the beginning of 16 century
The Dutch were the second Europeans to occupy it
English also invaded it in 1793 and returned it to the French.

Tobacco was introduced in India, by the Portuguese in 16th or 17th century .

Raja Todor mall introduced the assessment of land revenue (Akbar.)

, Nehru, and Subhash, Chandra Bose founded their independence for Indian league
to oppose the Nehru report.

Mahatma Gandhi started the civil disobedience moment from sabarmati

Sir Sayed Ahmed Khan did not believe in the drain theory of Dadabhai .

A nation in making - surendranath banerjee

Hind swaraj - MG

Indian struggle - SCB

Autobiographical - lajpat ra

Setalvad, bn rau, alladi distinguished members of the servants of Indian society.

Montego called the massacre at jalianwala as as preventive murder.

The government refused the first ever bill to make primary education compulsory in
India in 1913.

Abinava barat secret Society of revolutionaries by VD Savarkar.

Surendranath banerji was dismissed by the British from the Indian civil service.

Alfred Webb was a President of the Congress in 1894.

In the context of Indian history, the Rakhmabai case of 1884 revolved around. 2. age of
consent. 3. restitution of conjugal rights.

3. Tabernacle of New Dispensation 3. Indian Reform Association - Keshab

Chandra Sen is associated with the establishment.
In 1893, Sir William Wedderburn and W. S. Caine formed the “Indian Parliamentary
Committee” with Dadabhai Naoroji and other Indian sympathizers. The purpose of the Indian
Parliamentary Committee is to agitate for Indian political reforms in the House of Commons.

The most effective contribution made by Dadabhai Naoroji to the cause of the
Indian National Movement was that he exposed the economic exploitation of
India by the British.

Indigo cultivation in India declined by the beginning of the 20 th century because of

Unprofitability in market because of new inventions.

Aurang was a Persian term referred to as a warehouse. It is a place where goods are
collected before being sold. The term also refers to a workshop.
The term banian means merchant. The banian was engaged by an individual
western merchant or a firm to work for them as a broker, interpreter, and agent.
Under the ryotwari settlement system, the government recognized mirasidars as the
sole proprietors of land. They acted as the Designated revenue payer to the State.

With reference to the book “Desher Katha” written by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar
during the freedom struggle, consider the following statements:

It warned against the Colonial State’s hypnotic conquest of the mind.

It inspired the performance of swadeshi street plays and folk songs.

The use of ‘desh’ by Deuskar was in the specific context of the region of india.

Pitt's India Act 1784 - It established an authority in England to supervise the company's
affairs. This is known as the Board of Control which has 6 members. The revenues of India
were controlled by the British parliament through Pitts India Act 1784.The Governor-General
in the council has more powers over Bombay and Madras Governors in matters related to the
War, Revenue and Diplomacy. In India, the strength of the executive council was reduced from
four to three.

Charter Act of 1813 - The monopoly of EIC was abolished in terms of trade with India. The
company still enjoyed the monopoly in terms of tea and trade with china trade for 20 more
years. This act provided a grant of one lakh rupees per annum for the promotion of education
in India. This act gave power to local governments to impose and collect taxes. This act
included a clause asserting the Crown's undoubted sovereignty over all of the Company's
territories and required it to open up India to Christian missionaries.

With reference to Swadesh Movement consider the following statements:

It contributed to the revival of the indigenous artisan crafts and industries.

The National Council of Education was established as a part of Swadeshi Movement

Movement/Organization : Leader

1. All India Anti-Untouchability League : Mahatma Gandhi

2. All India Kisan Sabha : Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

3. Self-Respect Movement : E. V. Ramaswami Naicker

The following groups of plants was domesticated in the New World and introduced in the Old
World - Tobacco, cocoa and rubber.

Mahatma Gandhi was instrumental in the abolition of the system of Indentured labour’.

In Lord Chelmsford’s War Conference’, Mahatma Gandhi did support the resolution on
recruiting Indians for World War.
Consequent upon the breaking of Salt Law by Indian people, the Indian National Congress
was declared illegal by the colonial rulers.

Person: Position held

1. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru : President, All India Liberal Federation

2. K. C. Neogy : Member, The Constituent Assembly

3. P. C. Joshi : General Secretary, Communist Party of India

The Rowlett Act aimed at imprisonment without trial and summary procedures for trial .

Government of India Act 1919 – introduction of Dyachy in the executive government of the
provinces and devolution of legislative authority by the center to the provinces .

The Lahore session of the Congress gave voice to the new militant spirit it passed resolution
declaring full independence (Purna swaraj) .

Dada bhai Naroji exposed the economic exploitation of India by the British .

MG Undertook fast unto death in 1932 because Ramsay Macdonald announced the
communal award .

Ambedkar established all India scheduled caste federation and the independent labor
Party.

The National Social Conference was found during the freedom struggle because Indian
National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to
form a separate body For such purpose.
The Congress ministries resigned in October 1939 because Viseroy Lord lethinglow go action
on declaring India to be belligerent in in the Second World War without consulting Indian
people .

The Nehru report was for joint electorates for reservation of seats for minorities and
provision of fundamental rights for the people and Dominion status for India .

Mahatma Gandhi said that some of the deepest convictions’ unto this last’ book ,the message
from the book was the good of individual is contained in the good of all .

The Keda Satyagraha was organized by Mahatma Gandhi because the administration did not
suspend the land revenue collection in spite of a drought .

During the quit India movement of 1942 – it was a non violent moment, it was led by
Mahatma Gandhi , it was a spontaneous movement , huge amount of labor class was
involved .

The Bombay Manifesto signed in 1936 openly opposed the preaching of socialist ideals

Pandit Nehru and Maulana Azad were official Congress negotiators with crips Mission.

Rajkummar Shukla requested Gandhi to come to Champaran to investigate the problems of

peasants . Gandhi’s colleagues in this moment where Kripalani, Rajendra Prasad, Mahadiyo
Desai

After quit India moment C Rajopalachari issued a pamphlet the way out – it is for the
solution of constitutional deadlock

During the Kolkata session of International Congress in 1906 there were three resolutions –
boycott ,swedishi and National Education

The 16th October 1905 is well known for partition of Bengal to care fact

Mahatma Gandhi founded the Ahmedabad Textile labor Association

The civil disobedience movement started with danndimarch

Winston Churchill sentt Cripps mission to India

The Cripps proposals included the provisions for Dominion status for India and creation of
constitutional making body .

Shud-be azadi by faiz ahmad faiz

The first session of the Indian National Congress held in December 1885 at Bombay

Al Hilal was a journal brought out by Abul Kalam Azad

Lord Chelmsford was the viceroy of India during Rowlett Act passed

Aurobindo Ghosh wrote articles titled New Lamps for Old

The Wavel plan by Viceroy Lord Wavvel in 1945 suggested re constitution of the acceptable in
which all the portfolios including war members to be held by Indian leaders During the Shimla
Conference

Subhash Chandra Bose rised in army called Free Indian Legion

GK Gokale rejected the title of knighthood and refused to accept position in the Council of
the Secretary

Mahatma Gandhi started his first Satyagraha at Champaran

Because of the Rowlett Act the Jallianwala Bagh incident happened

Under the presidency of Jawaharlal Nehru the Lahore session of the Indian Congress in 1929
the resolution was adopted (purna swaraj)

The Government of India Act 1935 provided for – the provincial autonomy , the
establishment of a federal court , all India Federation at the center
Lord Wavvel was the viceroy during the Shimla Conference .

The Indian Navy revolt 1946 took place when the Indian sailors in the Royal Indian Navy at
Bombay and Karachi rise against the government

Nehru drafted the resolution on fundamental rights at the Karachi session of Congress in
1931 presided over by Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Launch of quit India movement Mahatma Gandhi asked the government servants not to
resign but declare their allegiance to the Congress ;, soldiers were asked not to leave but not
to fire ; asked the princes of the prince’s states to accept the sovereignty of their own people

The Chowry Chowra incident happened in the year 1922

The second session of the International Congress was held under the president ship of
Dadabai ; both Congress and Muslim League held their sessions at Lucknow in 1916

The government of India Act 1935 : abolition of diarchy ;powers of governors to veto
legislative action and to legislate on their own

Many moderates left the party during Montague Chelmsford report to form the Indian Liberal
Federation

One of the important aspect of the CRIPS mission was the creation of an Indian Union with
dominion status after the World War ii

The members of the constituent assembly drafted the Constitution of India where elected by
the legislative assemblies of various province

The last opportunity to avoid the partition of India was lost with the rejection of Cabinet
mission

Mcdonald – Communal Award ; Lethinglow – August offer ; Dalhousie – doctrine of laps ;

Chelmsford – diarchy
Balkan plan was by Mountbatten

That’s an alternative(partition) to the parties of India, gandhiji suggested to Mount Batten

that he invited Jinnah to form the government

Term Imperial preference for special privilege for British import

abhinav Bharat the secret society was organized by VD Savarkar

Setlavad, BN rao, ALladi krishansawamy – Servants of india society

The butler committee report was for relationship between Indian state and Paramount
power.

The Muddiman Committee was for the working of Dayarchy

The Hurtog of committee was for growth of Education