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Question 1

What percentage of Indians were Hindu in 1858?

Answer 1

70% (210 million)

Question 2

What was the role of the Indian CIvil Service?

Answer 2

They ensured British laws, rules, and regulations were implemented in India.

Question 3

When was the Indian National Congress created?

Answer 3

1885

Question 4

The Bengal partition in 1905 split the INC in two. Who were the leaders of the two parties?

Answer 4

Gopal Krishna Gokhale (moderate)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (radical)

Question 5

What was the Indian Council Act and what did it achieve?

Answer 5

Wanted to avoid another mutiny, reversed the Bengal partition in 1911

Question 6

How many total deaths occurred in Kut-Al-Amara 1916?

Answer 6

64000

Question 7

What were the economic impacts of WW1 on India?

Answer 7

Price of food grains rose by 93%, price of Indian made goods by 60% and imported goods by 190%

Question 8

What was the goal of the 1917 Montagu declaration?

Answer 8

Give more self-government to India

Question 9

What did the 1919 Rowlatt act legal?

Answer 9

Imprisonment without trial, trial without jury, censorship and house arrests if thought to be anti-war or a revolutionary.

Question 10

How many total witnesses were questioned by the Hunter commision?

Answer 10

1700

Question 11

What did the Government of India Act 1919 create in India?

Answer 11

Dyarchy

Question 12

What council was created by the Government of India Act 1919?

Answer 12

Imperial Executive Council to advise Viceroy (3 Indian nationals, Commander of British Army, 2 others)

Question 13

Why was the Government of India Act 1919 a negative for India?

Answer 13

British retained control of foreign affairs and trade

Question 14

How many rounds were fired during the Amritsar massacre?

Answer 14

1650 (Dyer said he would have shot more if they were available)

Question 15

Membership in the INC grew from 100,000 to what figure?

Answer 15

2,000,000

Question 16

What did Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru decide India needed?

Answer 16

Purna Swaraj (Total Independence)

Question 17

Gandhi’s 1930 salt satyagraha attracted how many people on the day of his walk?

Answer 17

75,000 from all religions and backgrounds

Question 18

What agreements were made in the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931?

Answer 18

Gandhi will stop all civil obedience in India and in return all 80,000 imprisoned because of the salt satyagraha had to be released.

Question 19

What reasons were there for why the Second Round Table Conference in December 1931 failed?

Answer 19

Conservative British government wasn’t willing to change.
Gandhi was stubborn and claimed he represented 95% of Indians (not true).
Jinnah was still fighting for separate electorates and privately spoke to groups to ensure nothing went through.

Question 20

Why were congress unhappy with the 1935 Government of India Act?

Answer 20

Separate electorates meant there could be strong, muslim dominated provincial capitals.