UPSC Indian Modern History 8 (Old Year Questions)

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Sanyasi Rebellion (1770): restrictions imposed on visits to holy places estranged the Sanyasis. The Sanyasis retaliated by organizing raids on the company’s factories and state treasuries under the leadership of ‘Kena Sarkar’ and ‘Dirji Narayan’ in Bengal and Bihar.

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The Company was granted permission to open Factory at Surat in 1608. In 1615, Sir Thomas Roe received royal farman from Jahangir to establish factories at Agra, Ahmedabad, Baroda and Broach (on West Coast): Masulipatnam and Armagaon near Pulicat (South-East Coast).

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Tantia Tope was betrayed by his friend Man Singh. He was captured and put to death by the British in April 1859.

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Jawaharlal Nehru was the President of the Lahore Session of INC in the year 1929, where a resolution to gain complete independence (purna swaraj) from the British was adopted.

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Forward Block was founded in the year 1939 by Subhash Chandra Bose.

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Government of India Act, 1935 provides for provincial autonomy, Federal court and All India Federation at the Centre.

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Cornwallis was the first Governor General who established a regular force on the British pattern in India.

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Battle of Ambur – Early Seventees Battle of Plassey – 1757 Battle of Wandiwash – 1760 Battle of Buxar – 1764

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Dutch lost all their settlements in India to British in 1795. Fort Williams was built by the British in Kolkata. Portuguese were the first to take Kochi as their Colony. Kochi never became a part of British Colony.

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Simla Conference (1945) took place when Lord Wavell was the Viceroy (1943-47). On February 18, 1946 Naval ratings of HMIS Talwar at Bombay and later the Naval ratings of HMIS Hindustan at Karachi went on strike. On 28th February 1946, with the efforts of Vallabhbhai Patel, Mohammal Ali Jinnah and some of the communist leaders, the ratings were agreed to surrender.

Ans b
Most of the Punjab, Rajputana (Chittor) and Kashmir remained peaceful Nizam of Hyderabad, Gulab Singh of Kashmir, Sikh rulers of Patiala, Nabha and Jind, Hoklar of Indore, Scindia of Gwalior of retain their position and state, helped the British to suppress the revolt of 1857.

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Kunwar Singh, the Zamindar of Jagdishpur led the revolt in Bihar. He joined the sepoys when they reached Arrah from Dinapore.

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Morarji Desai born in 1896 participated in the Ahmedabad Mill worker’s Satyagraha.

Ans c
The UP Kisan Sabha was set up in February 1918 by Gauri Shankar Misra and Indra Narayan Dwivedi while Madan Mohan Malviya supported their efforts. Jawaharlal Nehru was not associated with the formation of U.P. Kisan Sabha but later in 1920, he visited the villages in U.P. to look at farmer’s conditions at the behest of Baba Ramchandra.

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Karachi Session of Congress in 1931 was presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel but the draft on Fundamental Rights was done by Jawaharlal Nehru

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A resolution for Purna Swaraj was adopted at the Lahore Session (December, 1929) under the Presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru. In the same session congress working committee (CWC) authorized to launch a programme of civil disobedience including non-payment of taxes and all members of legislature asked to resign their seats.

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In Punjab, Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan of National Unionist Party formed the Government. The Congress got a majority in all provinces except in Bengal, Assam, Punjab, Sindh and NWFP, and emerged as the largest party in Bengal, Assam and NWFP.

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Mahatma Gandhi asked the Government servants not to resign but declare allegiance to the Congress. The Soldiers were asked not to leave the army but do not fire on Compatriots.

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Joh Elliot Drink Water Bethune a law member in Governor General’s Council was the founding father of Bethune College which blossoms into Bethune School to promote female education. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee was one of the first graduate of Calcutta University. His first Bengali Novel was ‘Durgesh Nandini’. Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s campaign against Sati led to the enactment of Law to ban Sati (1829).

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First Round Table Conference (1930) presided by Ramsay MacDonald (head of labour party) where Ambedkar demanded separate electorate for depressed classes. Third Round Table Conference (1932): Congress didn’t participate. Poona pact had no provisions for reservation in Civil Service and local bodies.