British Rule in India Quiz

When the Non-cooperation Movement reached its peak and was unexpectedly abandoned in 1922, Lord Reading served as Viceroy.

Max Muller proposed the concept of two Aryan races, one western and one eastern, who moved from the Caucasus into Europe and India, respectively, in the 1850s.

Thomas Babington Macaulay was only in India for four years, from 1834 to 1838. He nevertheless left permanent traces on the Indian land. During his stay in India, he made the decision to use government resources in schools and institutions to promote English into Indian education.

The Muslim League's leader, Jinnah, refused to accept the Nehru Report and came up with a list of fourteen demands that became known as the "14 Points of Jinnah."

Following the enactment of the GOI Act in 1858, Lord Stanley was appointed as India's first Secretary of State and assumed political leadership of the country.

In 1901, the book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India was released. Dadabhai Naoroji emphasised in this book how British economic policies used income taken from India to fund British companies. This idea is sometimes referred to as the "Drain of Wealth."

In the reign of Lord Curzon, British India approved the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act, 1904, on March 18.

The British Empire's control in India is credited to Robert Clive. He began working for the East India Company as a clerk and advanced through the ranks, eventually taking command of the British soldiers at the battle of Plassey.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who was credited by Mahatma Gandhi as the "Maker of Modern India" and by Jawaharlal Nehru as the "Father of the Indian Revolution," contributed to the development of Indian swaraj.

During his tenure as India's governor general from 1848 to 1856, Lord Dalhousie developed a strategy that became known as the "Doctrine of Lapse." According to this regulation, an Indian king's kingdom would expire and join Company territory if he passed away without a male heir.

In a ferocious speech delivered in Mumbai in 1942, Mahatma Gandhi urged the Indian people to "do or die" in an effort to force the British to leave the country.

King James was convinced by the East India Company to send Roe as a royal representative to the Great Mughal Emperor Jahangir's court at Agra. For three years, from 1617 to 1619, Roe lived in Agra.

Lord Wellesley organised the subsidiary alliance in India, but the name was coined by French Governor Dupleix. A monarch of India who entered into a subsidiary alliance with the British had to disband his own military and allow British troops to operate within his borders.

Dalhousie put this in place so that the British East India Company could monopolise control over the Indian State and therefore boost their earnings. As a result, the British were exceedingly unpopular and the rulers of the various states became fierce enemies of the British, which was one of the causes of the 1857 uprising.

The Treaty of Amritsar was an agreement signed on April 25, 1809, between Ranjit Singh, the ruler of the Punjabi Sikh empire, and Charles T. Metcalfe, who was speaking on behalf of the British East India Company.

On April 20, 1843, the Bengal British India Society was established due to the efforts of George Thomson. In an effort to show complete loyalty to the ruling sovereign of the British dominions, it was intended to ensure the welfare and advance the interests of all social groups.

It was approved on August 2nd, 1858. Taking issue with the shortcomings of the existing system in the Government of India, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Lord Palmerston introduced the bill for handing over control of the Indian Government from the East India Company to the British Crown.

Its claimed purpose was to support and advance the welfare of Indians as well as the general public's interests. It worked to inform the British public accurately about India and voice Indian issues in the British press.

From Kolkata, West Bengal, Satyendranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali government servant who also worked as a poet, composer, writer, social reformer, and linguist. In 1863, he was the first Indian to be appointed as an officer in the Indian Civil Service. He belonged to the Bramho Samaj.

Due to the British East India government's poor management, which resulted in an insolvency scenario, the Regulating Act was passed. While looking to control the operations, this act still allowed the corporation to maintain its territorial custody in India.