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Exploring the British Raj: A Historical Quiz

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge on various aspects of the British Raj, including historical events, figures, and socio-political structures.

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1 [34] Under the direction of Mountstuart Elphinstone a program was launched to propagate ________.

2 What type of government does British Raj have?

3 What does the following picture show?  The British Indian Empire and surrounding countries in 1909   An Italian soldier surrenders to an Indian Jawan during the successful Allied campaign of Operation Crusader   Edwin Montagu, left, the Secretary of State for India, whose report led to the Government of India Act of 1919, also known as the Montford Reforms or the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms

4 The East India Company also signed treaties with various Afghan rulers and with Ranjit Singh of Lahore to counterbalance the Russian support of Persia's plans in western ________.

5 What does the following picture show?  The Jallianwala Bagh couple of months after the April 1919 massacre, which killed about 1,516 people[91]   Map of the Indian Empire showing the prevailing majority religions of the population for different districts in 1909   The British Indian Empire in 1893   Map of the Indian Empire showing the prevailing majority religions of the population for different districts in 1909

6 Bairoch, Paul, Economics and World History, ________, 1995

7 What does the following picture show?  An Italian soldier surrenders to an Indian Jawan during the successful Allied campaign of Operation Crusader   The proclamation to the "Princes, Chiefs, and People of India," issued by Queen Victoria on 1 November 1858. "We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligation of duty which bind us to all our other subjects." (p. 2)   The British Indian Empire in 1893   The proclamation to the "Princes, Chiefs, and People of India," issued by Queen Victoria on 1 November 1858. "We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligation of duty which bind us to all our other subjects." (p. 2)

8 The rebellion began with mutinies by sepoys of the Bengal Presidency army; in 1857 the presidency consisted of present-day ________, and the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar and UP.

9 [36] In 1849 nearly 13% of all Calcutta deaths were due to ________.

10 What is the currency of British Raj?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule.
  • the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj.
  • the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions.
  • the establishment of Mahendra Pratap's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India.
  • the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore.
  • the Tamil film Thyagabhoomi is the only Indian film banned by the British Raj for propagating the cause of India's freedom struggle.
  • as Chief Herald of India, Osmond Barnes (pictured) proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India at Delhi in 1877.
  • Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India.
  • Qaisar Bagh of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was ordered demolished by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but his queens' residence is still standing in Lucknow today.
  • Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association, the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India.
  • Webb Miller, whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India, was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton.
  • Mahesh Rangarajan is a researcher, author and historian who analysed present-day conservation conflicts in India and found their roots in India's colonial past.
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