Indian History Quiz

On June 22, 1897, Damodar Hari Chapekar, Balkrishna Hari Chapekar, and Vasudev Hari Chapekar were hanged at Pune for the murder of British official Walter Charles Rand.

He was known as the "Father of Modern India" by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. He is regarded by many historians as one of the pioneers of the Indian Renaissance.

On September 5th, 1920, Mahatma Gandhi led the beginning of the Non-Cooperation Movement.

The All India Kisan Sabha, also known as the Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha, was the name of the Communist Party of India's peasants front. Sahajanand Saraswati formed this significant peasant movement in 1936.

The Bengal Partition of 1905 was finally annulled by King George in December 1911 as a result of constant criticism. By eliminating Bihar and Orissa from the Bengal section and Assam from the Eastern Bengal portion, the two halves were brought together.

The failure of Cripps Mission served as the immediate motivation for the Quit India movement. Contrary to what the British believed, the Indian National Congress did not provide unqualified support to them throughout World War II. The majority of Indians were becoming more and more inclined toward nationalism and self-rule.

The Morley-Minto Reforms, commonly known as the Indian Councils Act (1909), was an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament that slightly increased Indian participation in the administration of British India.

At a joint meeting of both parties convened in Lucknow in December 1916, the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League came to an agreement known as the Lucknow Pact. The two sides acknowledged in the agreement that religious minorities could be represented in provincial legislatures.

At a Congress session in Lahore in December 1929, Mahatma Gandhi introduced a resolution urging the British to grant India dominion status within two years.

The "Quit India Movement" or "Bharat Chodo Andolan," often referred to as the "August Kranti Movement," was a proposal for an end to British rule in India made by Mahatma Gandhi at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee on August 8, 1942.

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Damodar Savarkar established the secretive Abhinav Bharat Society in 1904.

The League's leadership was taken over by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, who initially proposed the demand for a separate Muslim state in India in 1930.

Brahma Dutt, a member of Gandhiji's ashram, was the third person chosen to offer an individual satyagraha.

When the ceremony to transfer the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was taking place in 1912, Lord Hardinge, the viceroy of India at the time, was attacked. Rash Behari Bose led the conspiracy.

Gandhi was in charge of the Ahmedabad cotton factory strike that took place in March 1918. On March 15, 1918, Gandhi started the "first" of his seventeen "fasts unto death" at this point.

The Constitution's third section is referred to be the Magna Carta of India. It contains a fairly extensive list of fundamental rights that can be upheld in court. In reality, our constitution's Fundamental Rights are more detailed than those found in the Constitutions of any other nations, including the USA.

Nana Saheb, Peshwa Baji Rao II's adopted son, emerged as the leader of the revolt. He joined the revolt primarily as a result of the British depriving him of his pension.

Ayyankali has been referred to as "the most important leader of modern Kerala" by Sanal Mohan. He is often referred to as the Spartacus of Kerala.

Gandhi visited Lucknow in December 1916 on behalf of the Indian National Congress Party. Rajkumar Shukla, a peasant from Champaran, met Gandhiji there and expressed his dissatisfaction with the unfairness of the landlord system in Bihar.

The 1857 revolt suffered from poor leadership. It wasn't coordinated and planned. During the revolt of 1857, there was a noticeable lack of unity and a lack of a shared goal among the rebels. The revolt was restricted to Northern and Central India only.