India- key dates Flashcards
When were the Rowlatt Acts?
March 1919
When was the first civil disobedience campaign?
April 1919
When was the Amritsar Massacre?
April 1919
When were the three Government of India Acts?
1858, 1919 and 1935
When did Gandhi become leader of Congress?
1920
When was the second civil disobedience campaign?
1920-22
When were members of Congress first permitted to stand for election?
1923
When were the Muslim League’s Delhi proposals rejected by Congress?
1927
When did the Simon Commission arrive in India?
1928
When was the Nehru Report?
1928
When were Jinnah’s 14 points rejected by Congress?
1929
When did Congress decide that purna swaraj was their goal?
Lahore Congress 1929
When was the salt march?
March 1930
When was the first Round Table Conference?
November 1930
When was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
1931
When was the Cripps Mission sent to India?
1942
When was Gandhi’s ‘Quit India’ campaign?
1942
When did the Cabinet Mission arrive in India?
1946
When did India achieve independence?
15th August 1947
When was the Suez Canal opened?
1869
When was Congress founded?
1885
When was the Muslim League founded?
1906
In what year were tariffs on Lancashire cotton removed?
1879
In what year were tariffs on all British goods removed?
1882
When was the Indian Mutiny?
1857
In what year was the Indian Council’s Act?
1909
In what year during the First World War were Indian troops relocated to the Middle East?
1915
In what year were British/Indian forces defeated by the Turkish?
1916
In what year was the Montagu Declaration?
1917
In what year was the Lucknow Pact?
1916
In what year was the partition of Bengal?
1905
In what year were Tilak’s and Besant’s Home Rule Leagues set up?
1916
In what year was the Khilafat Movement founded?
1919
In what year did the Khilafat Movement collapse?
1923
In what year was the Irwin Declaration?
1929
In what year was the Communal Award?
1932
In what year was the Yeravda Pact?
1932
Tenure of Viceroy Irwin
1926-1931
Tenure of Viceroy Willingdon
1931-1936
Tenure of Viceroy Linlithgow
1936-1943
Tenure of Viceroy Wavell
1943-47
Tenure of Viceroy Mountbatten
February 1947-August 1947
Tenure of Viceroy Chelmsford
1916-1921
Viceroy Isaacs’ tenure
1921-1926
In what year was the Lahore resolution?
1940
In what year was the August Offer?
1940
When was the Bengal Famine?
1943-1944
When was the first Simla Conference?
25th June 1945
When did the British government invest in an army modernisation programme for the Indian army?
1939
In what year was the Reserve Bank of India established?
1931
In what year did Roosevelt and Churchill produce the Atlantic Charter?
1941
In what year did Labour politicians promise Nehru that they would pass an independence bill as soon as they got into power?
1938
When did a group of MPs visit India to assess the strength of the argument for partition?
January 1946
What election was held in 1946?
Indian general election
In what year was the second Simla Conference?
1946
It what year did elements of the Indian army mutiny against the Raj?
1946
When was the Muslim day of direct action?
16th August 1946 (remember- almost exactly a year before independence)
When was the interim government sworn in?
2nd September 1946
What important announcement did Atlee make to the HOC in February 1947?
That power would be transferred no later than 30th June 1948
When did Mountbatten hold a conference with the Indian princes to convince them to accede to either Pakistan or India?
25th July 1947
