India | MCQs

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• During the time of Lord Ripon, the age limit for civil service was raised from 18 to 21.
• First Factory Act was passed in the year 1881.
• Hunter commission was appointed in the year 1882 for educational reforms.

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Somnath temple was destroyed  Mehmud Ghazni.

Mahmud of Ghazni: Turkish invader

He attacked India: 17 times

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Both Muslim and Congress participate in this pact in 1916

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The Lodhi Dynasty was established by the Bahlul Khan Lodhi in India in the year 1451. 

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He remain in office 1945-51

Monarch: George 6

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In 1923, Swami Shraddhanand founded the 'Bhartiya Hindu Shuddhi Mahasabha' (Indian Hindu Purification Council) and pushed the agenda of reconversion, which eventually created a flashpoint between Hindus and Muslims as Hindus were the recipients of the violence.

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Towards the middle of the decade of 1940, the world war II was over and as a result of its impact, there was a wave of decolonization world over. 

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The Nehru Report of 28 August 1928 was a memorandum to appeal for a new dominion status and a federal set-up of government for the constitution of India.

It also proposed for the Joint Electorates with reservation of seats for minorities in the legislatures.

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The Quit India Movement , also known as the August Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British rule in India.

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The two-nation theory is an ideology of religious nationalism which significantly influenced the Indian subcontinent following its independence from the British Empire.