British Colonization | MCQs

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British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his Minute on Indian Education on 2 February 1835

This report aimed to create a class of educated Indians who could assist in administering British rule. 

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The East India Company was an English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India.

The East India Company was an English, and later British, joint-stock company.

East India Company was established on December 31, 1600.

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• The Cripps Mission (1942) was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps.
• He was a member of the War Cabinet and was sent to India to discuss the British Government’s Draft Declaration on the Constitution of India with Indian leaders.
• The mission was a failed attempt by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II.

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The Act of 1909, also known as the Morley-Minto Reforms, enlarged the size of the Central as well as Provincial Legislative Councils.

This reform introduced elections to legislative councils and admitted Indians to councils of the Secretary of State for India, the viceroy, and to the executive councils of Bombay and Madras states.

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The Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909 increased the number of members in the Imperial Legislative Council by 60.

It introducing more representation for Indians.

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Henry Vansittart served as the Governor of Bengal from July 27, 1760, to November 26, 1764.

He played a key role during the early years of British expansion in India.

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On 8 August 1940, early in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the so-called "August Offer" at Simla.

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• The Moplah Rebellion, also called the Mappila Rebellion or Malabar Rebellion, occurred in Kerala in 1921-1922.
• The rebellion was led by Variyamkunnath Kunhamed Haji and started as a resistance against the British colonial rule and the prevailing feudal system controlled by elite Hindus in the region.
• The Moplah Rebellion was an armed revolt that lasted for six months and was eventually suppressed by the British.

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• The partition of Bengal in 1905 favored Muslims, as it created a Muslim-majority province in East Bengal.
• The Partition of Bengal was announced by Lord Curzon on 20 July 1905.
• It came into force on 16 October 1905.
• The Hindu community and the Indian National Congress strongly opposed it.
• In December 1911, King George V announced the revocation of the partition at his Coronation Durbar in Delhi.