Practice MCQ Questions and answers on Indian history-GK

First Round Table Conference was first among the three such conferences organized between 1930 and 1932 by British government towards constitutional reforms in India. These conferences were conducted as per 1930 report of Simon Commission. First Round Table Conference was held between November 1930 and January 1931. It was officially inaugurated on November 12, 1930 at House of Lords at London by the British King (George V) and was chaired by then British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

Gandhi-Irwin Pact, agreement signed on March 5, 1931, between Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, and Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), British viceroy (1926–31) of India.

With the objective of raising the moral and material status of the untouchables Dr. B.R. Ambedkar organized The Bahishkrit Hitkari sabha in July 1924.

The Government of India Act 1935 derived material from four key sources viz. Report of the Simon Commission, discussions at the Third Round Table Conference, the White Paper of 1933 and the reports of the Joint select committees.

The Nehru Report of 28-30 August, 1928 was a memorandum outlining a proposed new dominion status constitution for India. It was prepared by a committee of the All Parties Conference chaired by Motilal Nehru with his son Jawaharlal Nehru acting as secretary. There were nine other members in this committee.

Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil wrote books Colour of Swadeshi and Revolutionary Life.

It was founded by Bhagat Singh in March 1926 and was a more public face of the Hindustan Republican Association. The NBS comprised members from the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh communities and organised lectures, public meetings and protests.

The novel ‘Neel Darpan’ depicting the harassment and oppression of Indigo farmers by the Britishers was written by Dinabandhu Mitra.

Kunwar Singh led the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in Bihar. He was nearly eighty and in failing health when he was called upon to take up arms. He gave a good fight and harried British forces for nearly a year and remained invincible until the end. He was an expert in the art of guerilla warfare.

The Indian War of Independence is an Indian nationalist history of the 1857 revolt by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that was first published in 1909.