History - Modern India Flashcards
The viceroy during the Quit India Movement [1942].
Lord Linlithgow
First governor-general of free India
Lord Mountbatten
____ founded the Brahmo Samaj
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
____ founded the Arya Samaj
Swami Dayanand Saraswati
- also known as the earliest Neo-nationalist
- motto: go back to the Vedas and India for the Indians
Arya Samaj started the ___ to convert non-Hindus to Hinduism
Shuddhi Movement
_____ was started by Swami Vivekananda after the death of his guru to carry on humanitarian and relief work.
Ramakrishna Mission
- popularised by Margaret Noble after his death
____ led Dharma Sabha which was created to counter the Brahmo Samaj.
Raja Radhakant Dev
____ was called the Brahmo Samaj of the South
Veda Samaj
- by Sridharalu Naidu
Founder of the Young Bengal Movement.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
- editor of Calcutta and Indian Gazette
Founder of the Theosophical Society
Madam Blavatsky & Olcott
Theosophical Society of India was founded by Annie Besant
This caste movement in Maharashtra started a school for untouchables.
Satya Shodhak Samaj
First meeting of the Indian National Congress was organized by ____.
AO Hume
- at Gokuldas Sanskrit College
First woman graduate of Calcutta University who addressed the Congress Session.
Kadambini Ganguly
1st president of the INC in 1885
WC Bonnerjee
- Gandhi became president in 1924
Examples of extremist leader during freedom struggle
Lal-Bal-Pal, Aurobindo Ghose, Chidambaram Pillai
____ ordered the Partition of Bengal
Lord Curzon
- 16th Oct, 1905
- to divide population of Bengal based on religious grounds
Tagore composed ___ during partition of Bengal.
Amar Sonar Bangla
- adopted as National Anthem by Bangladesh after liberation from Pakistan
Swadeshi movement emphasised on ___.
Atmashakti / self-reliance
____ & ____ led the Vandemataram movement in the South.
BC Pal & Chidambaram Pillai
____ & ____ led the Vandemataram movement in the North.
Lala Lajpat Rai & Ajit Singh
Leaders of the Muslim League
Aga Khan
Nawab Salimullah
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
- set up in 1906
This president of the INC session declared for Swaraj.
Dadabhai Naoroji
When was the Surat split
1907
- INC split into moderates and extremists
The first systematic critique of the moderates was by ____.
Aurobindo in his ‘New lamps for old’ in the Indu Prakash
Indian Councils Act of 1909 is also called ____.
Morley-Minto Reforms
Tilak served a sentence for 6 years in ____.
Mandalay
____ said ‘Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it’.
Tilak
- he had 2 newspapers: Maratha & Kesari
____ coined the term ‘commonwealth’.
Annie Besant
____ session was the first that united the extremists and moderates in the INC.
Lucknow session, 1916
Year of Rowlatt Act
1919
- authorised the government to arrest anyone without trial
Gandhi returned to India in ___.
Jan, 1915
First Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India
Champaran Satyagraha, 1917
- 1st civil disobedience movement
First hunger strike during freedom struggle
Ahmedabad Mill Strike, 1918
First non-cooperation movement during freedom struggle
Kheda Satyagraha, 1918
____ was appointed to inquire into the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, 13 April 1919
Hunter Commission
First mass based political movement under Gandhi
Non-Cooperation Movement
Non-Cooperation Movement saw the popularization of these two commodities.
Charkha & Khadi
The police station that was attacked on 5th Feb, 1922 was in ____.
Chauri Chaura
____ movement began for the reformation and control of Gurudwaras.
Akali Movement
___ & ____ founded the Independent Congress Party
Madan Mohan Malaviya & Lala Lajpat Rai
Simon Commission was also known as:
Indian Statutory Commission, 1927
