Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 58

The Constituent Assembly, elected indirectly by the provincial legislatures under the Cabinet Mission Plan, met for the first time on 9 December 1946 in the Constitution Hall at New Delhi, with Dr Sachchidananda Sinha as temporary chairman as the oldest member present.

Lord Wavell called Indian leaders to Simla in June 1945 to consider his plan for a reconstructed Executive Council in which all members except the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief would be Indians, with equal representation for caste Hindus and Muslims.

Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India from 24 March 1947 and continued after 15 August 1947 as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India, holding the post till June 1948.

Announced on 3 June 1947 and therefore also called the 3 June Plan, it provided that the legislative assemblies of Bengal and Punjab would meet in two parts to decide on partition, that a referendum would be held in the North-West Frontier Province and in Sylhet district of Assam, that…

Radcliffe, an English lawyer who had never been to India before, chaired both the Punjab and the Bengal Boundary Commissions, each of which had two Congress and two League nominees.

The Indian Independence Bill was introduced in the British Parliament on 4 July 1947 and received the royal assent on 18 July 1947, after which it came into force on 15 August 1947.

At the midnight sitting of the Constituent Assembly on 14 and 15 August 1947, Nehru moved the pledge resolution with his Tryst with Destiny speech, and Dr S. Radhakrishnan, then a member of the Assembly and later the first Vice-President and the second President of India, spoke after him.

Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister of Britain, told the House of Commons on 20 February 1947 that His Majesty's Government intended to transfer power to responsible Indian hands by June 1948, and announced at the same time that Lord Mountbatten would succeed Lord Wavell as Viceroy.

The Viceroy announced the formation of the interim national government on 24 August 1946, and the new Executive Council took office on 2 September 1946 with Jawaharlal Nehru as its Vice-President, which made him in effect the head of government.

After withdrawing its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Plan in July 1946, the Muslim League called for direct action to press the demand for Pakistan and fixed 16 August 1946 for it.

These three were the members of the Cabinet Mission that reached Delhi on 24 March 1946: Lord Pethick-Lawrence, the Secretary of State for India, who headed it, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander.

Pit houses dug into the ground with steps leading down into them were found at Burzahom, a neolithic site near Srinagar in Kashmir.

Chola inscriptions use the word shalabhoga for land set apart to maintain a school. The Cholas, who ruled from Thanjavur between the ninth and the thirteenth centuries, left hundreds of inscriptions on temple walls recording grants of land, and each kind of grant carried its own name.

The Supreme Court set up in 1774 sat at Fort William in Calcutta, the city now called Kolkata. It was created by the Regulating Act of 1773, the first British law to take direct notice of the Company's rule in India.

In the Tamil region of ancient India the ordinary ploughmen, the men who actually tilled the fields, were called uzhavar.

The Dandi March of 1930 was a protest against the British monopoly on salt and the tax on it, under which no Indian was allowed to make or sell salt freely.

Khatoli, fought in 1517 near Bundi in present-day Rajasthan, was the first clash between Rana Sanga of Mewar and Ibrahim Lodi, who had just succeeded to the throne of Delhi, and the Rajputs won.

C. Rajagopalachari was one of the first three recipients of the Bharat Ratna in 1954, along with C. V. Raman and S. Radhakrishnan, not of the Padma Shri, so this statement is not true.

Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi wrote the Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi in the reign of Mubarak Shah and claimed that Khizr Khan, who founded the dynasty in 1414, descended from the Prophet, which is how the line came to be called Sayyid.

On 9 August 1925 members of the Hindustan Republican Association stopped the 8 Down train near Kakori in Uttar Pradesh and took the government treasury bags, hoping to fund an armed struggle and buy weapons.