Practice Initial modern india - indian history mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams

The real number of prisoners who died in the ‘Black Hole Tragedy’, according to the available reports, was 146. The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in colonial India in which a large number of British prisoners of war allegedly died on the night of 20 June 1756.

The Battle of Wandiwash was fought between British and the French. Merchants of the Dutch East India Company first established themselves in Dutch Coromandel, notably Pulicat, as they were looking for textiles to exchange with the spices they traded in the East Indies.

Red Dragon wasthe first English ship that came to India. The Red Dragon fought the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally in 1612, and made several voyages to the East Indies.

• The Battle of Plassey held on 23rd June 1757.
• The Battle of Ambur held on 1749.
• The Battle of Buxar held on 22nd Oct. 1764.
• The Battle of Wandiwash held on 22nd Jan 1760.

• Treaty of Surat took place in 1775.
• Treaty of Bargaon took place in 1779.
• Treaty of Salbai held in 1782.
• Treaty of Purander took place in 1776.

• Abolition of Sati Pratha took place during the period of Lord Bentinck in 1928.
• Doctrine of Lapse regulated by Lord Dalhousie.
• Local Self Government took place during the period of Lord Rippon.
• The partition of Bengal announced in 1905 in the period of Lord Curzon.

The East India Company was brought under the parliamentary control in 1773. The Parliament of Great Britain imposed a series of administrative and economic reforms by the Regulating Act of 1773 and by doing so clearly established its sovereignty and ultimate control over the Company.

To overthrew British rule, the Kuka movement was organized in Punjab. Its principal objective was to spread the true spirit of Sikhism shorn of tawdry customs and mannerism, which had been growing on it since the beginning of the Sikh monarchy.

In the midst of national pride born of military glory and political power, this movement extolled the religious obligation for a pious and simple living. They were called “Kukas” because of their particular style to recite the Gurbani.

The Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act of 1856, enacted in response to the campaign of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for a remarrying Hindu widow.

Permanent settlement comprises Zamindar as middleman to collect the land revenue. The Zamindars were made the owners of the whole land in their Zamindari as long as they paid their dues to the state and they worked as agents of government in collecting the land revenue.

Dharma Sabha was founded in Calcutta in 1830, in opposition to the Brahma Samaj of Raja Ram Mohan Roy by Radha Kant Dev. An orthodox society, it stood for the preservation of the status quo in socio-religious matters opposing even the abolition of Sati.

However, it favored the promotion of western education, even for girls.

The ‘Filtration Theory’, in the educational policy of India, was propagated by Lord Macaulay. The British planned to educate a small section of upper and middle classes, thus creating a class who would act as interpreters between the government and masses and would enrich the vernaculars by which knowledge of western sciences and literature would reach the masses.

This was called the ‘Downward Filtration Theory’.

Lord Dalhousie had started the Public Works Department in India in 1848. Before the period of Dalhousie, the job of the Public Works Department was done by the Military Board. Dalhousie created a separate Public Works Department and allotted more funds for cutting canals and roads.

The Upper Ganges Canal was completed in 1854. Many bridges were constructed. By modernizing the Public Works Department, he laid the foundations of the engineering service in India.