Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 23

He had already formed the London Indian Society in 1865, and in 1866 he founded the East India Association in London, with branches later opened in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras.

The Landholders' Society of 1838 spoke for the zamindars of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, while the Bengal British India Society of 1843 was set up with the help of George Thompson to collect and publish information on the condition of the people.

It discussed questions of public interest and sent representations to the government, and because it came before every other body of its kind it is counted as the first political association in India.

The Charter Act of 1833 authorised the creation of a fourth presidency with its seat at Agra, and the Presidency of Agra was actually carved out of the Bengal Presidency in 1834, taking in almost the whole of what is now Uttar Pradesh; in 1836 the territory was placed under…

After the revolt the Peel Commission of 1859 advised a larger European element, the ratio of Europeans to Indians was raised to about one to two in Bengal and two to five in Madras and Bombay, and the artillery, the arm that decides a siege, was reserved for European troops…

The Government of India Act of 1935 provided for a Federal Court to settle disputes between the centre and the provinces and to hear appeals on constitutional questions, and the court began sitting at Delhi in 1937 with Sir Maurice Gwyer as its first Chief Justice.

The Indian High Courts Act was passed in 1861 and the courts it authorised were actually established the next year, so the three presidency High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras date from 1862.

The Regulating Act made the Governor of Bengal the Governor General, gave him a council of four, and provided for a Supreme Court at Calcutta, which was established by a royal charter and began sitting in 1774 with Sir Elijah Impey as its first Chief Justice.

The Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, headed by Lord Lee of Fareham, recommended that direct recruitment to the Indian Civil Service be divided equally between Indians and Europeans and that a Public Service Commission be set up without delay, and such a commission began work in…

The commission appointed in 1902 under Sir Andrew Fraser reported in 1903 and asked for better pay, training schools, the recruitment of Indians as officers and a central agency to collect and share criminal intelligence; the Department of Criminal Intelligence was created in 1903 and grew into the central intelligence…

Passed on the advice of the Police Commission of 1860, this Act gave every province an Inspector General, every range a Deputy Inspector General and every district a Superintendent of Police working under the district magistrate, with the village chowkidar at the base, and that structure is still recognisable in…

Satyendranath Tagore, an elder brother of Rabindranath Tagore, succeeded in the London examination and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1864, nine years after the first competitive examination was held, and served in the Bombay Presidency.

This Act took away the Company's right to nominate its civil servants and threw recruitment open to competition, after which the committee headed by Lord Macaulay in 1854 settled the syllabus and the first competitive examination was held in London in 1855.

Cornwallis, Governor General from 1786 to 1793, is called the father of the civil services in India because he fixed adequate salaries for the Company's servants, forbade them from carrying on private trade or taking presents, and made promotion depend on seniority instead of patronage, which together turned a trading…

. The Act of 1919 did not make the Central Executive responsible to the Legislature; the Governor-General and his Executive Council stayed answerable only to the British Parliament.

The Moderates never demanded universal adult franchise; they asked only for a larger share for educated Indians in the legislative councils.

Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College (with its school) at Benaras in 1898, and it later became the nucleus of Banaras Hindu University.

Nattar does not mean a male serpent deity; the nattar were the members of the nadu, the assembly of a group of villages in early medieval Tamil Nadu.

Gandhiji regarded Gopal Krishna Gokhale as his political guru, his Rajya Guru. Gandhi first met Gokhale in 1896 and they grew close when Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912.

Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, was a devoted follower of the Naqshbandi saint Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar. The Naqshbandi order was the leading Sufi silsila of Central Asia, and Khwaja Ubaydullah Ahrar (died 1490) of Samarkand was its most powerful leader in the fifteenth century.