Indian History GK Questions with Answers – Page 61

Bhulabhai Desai led the defence at the Red Fort trials of the Indian National Army officers, and his argument that the soldiers of a recognised army were fighting for their country's freedom turned the trials into a public cause.

The Liberal leader Tej Bahadur Sapru, working with M. R. Jayakar, brought Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin to the table and is remembered as the mediator of the pact.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906, with Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka taking the lead and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk among its founders, while Aga Khan III became its first president.

Gandhi led the Kheda satyagraha in 1918, asking the government to remit land revenue after the crops failed in that district of Gujarat.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

Muhammad bin Tughlaq issued token coins of bronze and copper in 1329-30 that were to pass at the value of the silver tanka.

It is called the Morley-Minto Reforms after Lord Morley, the Secretary of State for India, and Lord Minto, the Viceroy at the time.

Razia was the only woman to sit on the throne of Delhi, so she was both the first and the last woman ruler of the Sultanate.

Aibak was a Turkish slave of Muhammad Ghori and took charge of the Indian territories after Ghori died in 1206, founding the Slave or Mamluk dynasty of the Delhi Sultanate.

The Chalukya ruler Pulakesin II stopped Harshavardhana on the banks of the Narmada and kept him out of the Deccan.

This Act ended the rule of the East India Company and placed India directly under the British Crown. It was passed right after the Revolt of 1857, and is therefore also called the Act for the Good Government of India.

Passed after the Revolt of 1857, this Act ended the rule of the East India Company and transferred the government of India to the Crown.

At Mehrgarh the excavators found the remains of square and rectangular houses built of hand-made mud bricks, each divided into small compartments that appear to have been used to store grain.

Wood's Dispatch of 1854, sent by Charles Wood, the President of the Board of Control, is called the Magna Carta of English education in India, and both statements describe it correctly.

Linlithgow was Viceroy from 1936 to 1944, so the Second World War, the resignation of the Congress ministries, the August Offer of 1940, the Cripps Mission of 1942 and the suppression of the Quit India Movement all fall in his tenure.

At Champaran in Bihar the peasants were compelled under the tinkathia system to grow indigo on a part of their holding for the European planters.

The Lahore session of December 1929, presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru, declared Purna Swaraj to be the goal of the Congress, authorised the launch of civil disobedience and called upon the people to observe 26 January 1930 as Independence Day, which is why that date was later chosen for the…

The Poona Pact was signed on 24 September 1932 while Gandhi was on a fast unto death in Yerwada jail against the separate electorates granted to the depressed classes by the Communal Award.

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, also called the Delhi Pact, was signed on 5 March 1931 between Gandhi and the Viceroy Lord Irwin.