Indian History Quiz

One of India's first newspapers, Amrita Bazar Patrika started as a Bengali weekly on February 20, 1868 in the village of Amrita Bazar.

The Rowlatt Act, also known as the "black act," was implemented by the British government in 1919, during World War I.

In order to maintain India's unity and grant it independence, the Cabinet Mission came to India to discuss the handover of power from the British administration to the Indian leadership.

At the first Party Conference on December 26, 1925, in Kanpur, The Communist Party of India was founded. The first General Secretary of the CPI was S.V. Ghate. the conference  took place from December 25 to 28, 1925.

The early communism in India was influenced by the Khilafat movement. Muslims from India fled the country in large numbers to fight for the Caliphate. Some of them visited Soviet territory and turned to communist. Some Hindus went to the Soviet regions with the Muslim muhajirs.

During the 1942 Quit India Movement, Lord Linlithgow served as viceroy of India. The eight-year tenure of Lord Linlithgow as Viceroy of India, from 1936 to 1944, was the longest in the country's history.

In the Champaran district, which produced indigo, the first satyagraha campaign in India was launched in 1917.

One of the major Allied army contingents that participated in the North and East African Campaign and Western Desert Campaign during World War II was the Indian Army.

At Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay on December 28, 1885, the Indian National Congress was established with 72 delegates present. In addition, Calcutta native Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee was chosen to serve as president. Hume was appointed general secretary.

When the Government of India Act of 1935 was passed, Lord Willingdon served as Viceroy of India. The Simon Commission and Round Table Conference reports served as the basis for the creation of this Act.

Gandhiji started a death-defying fast when the British government met Ambedkar's demand because he thought it would impede the path of national unification. As a result, the Poona Pact was signed in September 1932.

The British Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act of 1947, which divided India into the sovereign nations of India and Pakistan. The legislation was created by Clement Attlee's Labour administration.

The Vedas were storehouse of knowledge and religious truth, which was the major justification for returning to them.

Savarkar supported the notion of India as a Hindu Rashtra while serving as the president of the Hindu Mahasabha (Hindu Nation). From that point on, he began to militarise Hindus in order to liberate the nation and safeguard both Hindus and the nation going forward.

The "United India house" was founded in Seattle by Tarak Nath Das and G.D. Kumar. India House was established to encourage nationalism among Indian students studying in Britain.

Bhikaiji Rustom Cama was a remarkable woman with incredible courage, fearlessness, honesty, perseverance, and hunger for liberation. Because of her efforts to the Indian freedom struggle, she is regarded as the mother of the Indian revolution.

In September 1906, Mahatma Gandhi organised his first nonviolent Satyagraha campaign to protest the Transvaal Asiatic Ordinance, which was imposed against the local Indians. Later, in June 1907, he organised a Satyagraha protesting the Black Act.

Rajendra Prasad, an Indian politician, lawyer, and journalist, served as the country's first president.

Tilak was the first leader of the Indian freedom struggle. He was referred to as "The father of the Indian unrest" by the British colonial rulers. A title called "Lokmanya," which means "recognised by the people as their leader," was also given to him.

He mostly made a contribution by inspiring people to join the freedom struggle with his essays that were printed in the publications Kesari and Mahratta. The British referred to him as the "Father of Indian Unrest" for this reason.