Indian History Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 22

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.

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

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.

Puhar, also called Kaveripattinam, was the great port of the early Cholas of the Sangam age. The town stood where the Kaveri meets the Bay of Bengal, and Karikala, the best known early Chola ruler, is credited with developing it.

Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India, issued the declaration of August 1917 promising the gradual development of self-governing institutions, and together with the Viceroy Lord Chelmsford produced the report of 1918 on which the Act of 1919 was based.

Under dyarchy the Governor kept the reserved subjects, which were those touching revenue and coercive power: administration of justice, land revenue, police, irrigation, famine relief, forests and labour relations.

The Anushilan Samiti, founded in 1902, was the largest revolutionary organisation of Bengal, and its Dhaka branch under Pulin Behari Das was the most tightly organised.

A bomb was thrown at Lord Hardinge during his ceremonial entry into Delhi in December 1912, when the capital was being shifted from Calcutta.

Bhikaji Cama unfurled a flag of Indian independence at the International Socialist Congress held at Stuttgart in Germany in 1907, and appealed to the delegates to support the Indian cause.

Thanjavur was the capital of the Chola dynasty, which ruled the Tamil country from the ninth to the thirteenth century.

Hyphasis is the Greek name of the Beas, and it was on its bank in 326 BC that Alexander's tired soldiers refused to march any further east, which is why the Beas marks the eastern limit of his campaign.

Subhas Chandra Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Free India, the Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, at Singapore on 21 October 1943.

The word Neolithic is built from the Greek neos, meaning new, and lithos, meaning stone, so the Neolithic is the New Stone Age.

The Lodis followed the Sayyids at Delhi. Bahlol Lodi, an Afghan noble who was governor of Sirhind, took the throne in 1451 when the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah gave up Delhi and settled at Badaun.

This Act, formally the Indian Councils Act of 1909, first gave Muslims a separate electorate, in which Muslim voters chose Muslim members from Muslim-only constituencies.

The Battle of Ten Kings, or Dasarajna, is described in the seventh book of the Rigveda.

The British wanted Russian influence kept out of Kabul, but they did not want a strong Afghan state on the north-west frontier either, because a powerful neighbour would be hard to control.

The first session of the Indian National Congress met at the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay from 28 to 31 December 1885 and was attended by 72 delegates, most of them lawyers, journalists, teachers and merchants drawn from the presidency towns, with W. C. Bonnerjee presiding.