Modern India- Questions & Answers 18

416. During the revolt of 1857, Birjis Qadr, the son of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali
Shah, was proclaimed the new Nawab of:
Lucknow

417. Who among established the Calcutta Unitarian Committee?
Ishwar Chandra Vidhya Sagar

418. The Governor General who finally removed the Maratha Peshwa from his position, captured his territories and sent him off to a distant place?
Hastings

419. Who was the Viceroy when Cripp’s Mission visited India ?
Linlithgo

420. In the Federation established by the Act 1935, residuary powers were given to the : Viceroy

421. On 9th of August, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi and the entire CongressWorking Committee were arrested in _____:
Mumbai

422. Which Act at aimed at separating the commercial and political functioning of the East India Company?
Act of 1784

423. After the notice had expired the Non-Cooperation movement was launched formally on 1st August of ____:
1920

424. Name Brigadier-General who, with his British troops entered the park at Jallianwala Bagh , closed the entrance of the park and commanded his army to fire on the gathered people without any warning.
Reginald Dyer
425. The Government of India Act 1919 had introduced the system of _____ to govern the provinces of British India:
Diarchy

426. Which was the basis on which the Government of India Act 1919 was made ? Montague’s Declaration 1917

427. Which nationalist leader has been described as being radical in politics but conservative on social issues?
Bal Gangadar Tilak

428. Which Commission recommended a change in the pattern of Dyarchy introduced under the Act of 1919?
Simon Commission

429. Which was considered as the basis of Indian Independence Act of 1947?
Mount batten Plan

430. During the first Round Table Conference, who favored the move of the British Government to provide separate electorate for the oppressed classes as was done in case of other minorities like Muslims, Sikh etc?
B.R.Ambedkar

431. Who acted as President of Indian National Congress for six consecutive years?
Abul Kalam Azad

432. Who led the most successful revolutionary operation in the entire history of freedom struggle?
Surya Sen

433. Who were the leaders with whom Lord Mountbatten held discussions apart from Jawaharlal Nehru?
Mahathma Gandhi and Jinnah

434. What proposal was made in the ‘August Offer’ of 1940?
Dominion Status

435. Following Mahathma Gandhi’s suggestion, the Khilafat Committee unanimously adopted a resolution to launch a nonviolent non-cooperation movement, at its meeting held at:
Allahabad

436. Under what charge, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested in 1908 ?
Sedition

437. With the emergence whom the element of mass mobilisation in freedom movement was introduced?
Mahatma Gandhi

438. Who mentioned about the safe guards and special powers vested in the Governor General as per the Govt. of India Act 1935 as ‘ Charter of Slavery’?
Jawaharlal Nehru

439. The Bombay Triumvirate included Feroz Shah Mehta,K.T.Telang and _____.
Badruddin Tyabji

440. Who was the Governor General when the Pindari Wars held ?
Lord Hastings

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