India- key dates

Question 1

When were the Rowlatt Acts?

Answer 1

March 1919

Question 2

When was the first civil disobedience campaign?

Answer 2

April 1919

Question 3

When was the Amritsar Massacre?

Answer 3

April 1919

Question 4

When were the three Government of India Acts?

Answer 4

1858, 1919 and 1935

Question 5

When did Gandhi become leader of Congress?

Answer 5

1920

Question 6

When was the second civil disobedience campaign?

Answer 6

1920-22

Question 7

When were members of Congress first permitted to stand for election?

Answer 7

1923

Question 8

When were the Muslim League’s Delhi proposals rejected by Congress?

Answer 8

1927

Question 9

When did the Simon Commission arrive in India?

Answer 9

1928

Question 10

When was the Nehru Report?

Answer 10

1928

Question 11

When were Jinnah’s 14 points rejected by Congress?

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

When did Congress decide that purna swaraj was their goal?

Answer 12

Lahore Congress 1929

Question 13

When was the salt march?

Answer 13

March 1930

Question 14

When was the first Round Table Conference?

Answer 14

November 1930

Question 15

When was the Gandhi-Irwin Pact?

Answer 15

1931

Question 16

When was the Cripps Mission sent to India?

Answer 16

1942

Question 17

When was Gandhi’s ‘Quit India’ campaign?

Answer 17

1942

Question 18

When did the Cabinet Mission arrive in India?

Answer 18

1946

Question 19

When did India achieve independence?

Answer 19

15th August 1947

Question 20

When was the Suez Canal opened?

Answer 20

1869

Question 21

When was Congress founded?

Answer 21

1885

Question 22

When was the Muslim League founded?

Answer 22

1906

Question 23

In what year were tariffs on Lancashire cotton removed?

Answer 23

1879

Question 24

In what year were tariffs on all British goods removed?

Answer 24

1882

Question 25

When was the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 25

1857

Question 26

In what year was the Indian Council’s Act?

Answer 26

1909

Question 27

In what year during the First World War were Indian troops relocated to the Middle East?

Answer 27

1915

Question 28

In what year were British/Indian forces defeated by the Turkish?

Answer 28

1916

Question 29

In what year was the Montagu Declaration?

Answer 29

1917

Question 30

In what year was the Lucknow Pact?

Answer 30

1916

Question 31

In what year was the partition of Bengal?

Answer 31

1905

Question 32

In what year were Tilak’s and Besant’s Home Rule Leagues set up?

Answer 32

1916

Question 33

In what year was the Khilafat Movement founded?

Answer 33

1919

Question 34

In what year did the Khilafat Movement collapse?

Answer 34

1923

Question 35

In what year was the Irwin Declaration?

Answer 35

1929

Question 36

In what year was the Communal Award?

Answer 36

1932

Question 37

In what year was the Yeravda Pact?

Answer 37

1932

Question 38

Tenure of Viceroy Irwin

Answer 38

1926-1931

Question 39

Tenure of Viceroy Willingdon

Answer 39

1931-1936

Question 40

Tenure of Viceroy Linlithgow

Answer 40

1936-1943

Question 41

Tenure of Viceroy Wavell

Answer 41

1943-47

Question 42

Tenure of Viceroy Mountbatten

Answer 42

February 1947-August 1947

Question 43

Tenure of Viceroy Chelmsford

Answer 43

1916-1921

Question 44

Viceroy Isaacs’ tenure

Answer 44

1921-1926

Question 45

In what year was the Lahore resolution?

Answer 45

1940

Question 46

In what year was the August Offer?

Answer 46

1940

Question 47

When was the Bengal Famine?

Answer 47

1943-1944

Question 48

When was the first Simla Conference?

Answer 48

25th June 1945

Question 49

When did the British government invest in an army modernisation programme for the Indian army?

Answer 49

1939

Question 50

In what year was the Reserve Bank of India established?

Answer 50

1931

Question 51

In what year did Roosevelt and Churchill produce the Atlantic Charter?

Answer 51

1941

Question 52

In what year did Labour politicians promise Nehru that they would pass an independence bill as soon as they got into power?

Answer 52

1938

Question 53

When did a group of MPs visit India to assess the strength of the argument for partition?

Answer 53

January 1946

Question 54

What election was held in 1946?

Answer 54

Indian general election

Question 55

In what year was the second Simla Conference?

Answer 55

1946

Question 56

It what year did elements of the Indian army mutiny against the Raj?

Answer 56

1946

Question 57

When was the Muslim day of direct action?

Answer 57

16th August 1946 (remember- almost exactly a year before independence)

Question 58

When was the interim government sworn in?

Answer 58

2nd September 1946

Question 59

What important announcement did Atlee make to the HOC in February 1947?

Answer 59

That power would be transferred no later than 30th June 1948

Question 60

When did Mountbatten hold a conference with the Indian princes to convince them to accede to either Pakistan or India?

Answer 60

25th July 1947