British India | MCQs

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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 Indian Statutory Commission also known as Simon Commission,

·        was a group of seven Members of Parliament

·        under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.

·        The commission arrived in India in 1928

·        to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and most important possession.

Simon Commission wanted to check the working of Government of India Act, 1919.

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The British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald announced the Communal Award in 1932 at the end of the Second Round Table Conference.

The Communal Award was a series of elections for minority groups in society and the economy.

It was established on August 16, 1932, as a result of the second round table meeting. 

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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre took place on 13 April 1919

In Jallianwala Bagh massacre killing at least 379 people and injuring over 1,200 other people.

Jallianwala Bagh is a historic garden close to the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India

By General Reginald Dyer order did the massacre take place in Jallianwala Bagh

 It is managed by the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust and was renovated between 2019 and 2021****

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 Lord Linlithgo was the Viceroy in India during the Second World War.

 Hitler's attack on Poland in September 1939.

Hitler's self-destruction and  unlimited acquiescence on 8 May 1945.

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Lord Wavell remained viceroy of India from 1943 to 1947

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ü  The first official Governor-General of British India was Lord William Bentinck,

ü  The first Governor-General of the Dominion of India was Lord Mountbatten.

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The Vernacular Press Act was passed in 1878 during British rule in India.

It aimed to regulate the vernacular press, which published newspapers and pamphlets in various Indian languages.

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