Modern History - 3

C. Rajagopalachari was the Head of the Department of Education and Dr. Rajendra Prasad was the Head of the Department of Food and Agriculture in the Executive Council.

 Option 1 is correct.

It was mainly used in maintaining the revenue and administrative records.

Scindias of Gwalior; Holkars of Indore; Gaekwads of Baroda; Bhonsles of Nagpur

In the Battle of Wandiwash in 1960, the French were finally defeated by the English. Battle of Buxar (1764) - English under Munro defeated Mir Qasim, Shuja-uddaula and Shah Alam II.

Adivasi means primitive people.

Earl Cornwallis took office on 12^th September, 1786 and left office on 28^th October, 1793.
Marquess Cornwallis took office on 30^th July, 1805 and left office on 5^th October, 1805.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1^st Marquess of Dalhousie, served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856.
Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Dominion of India (1947-48).
Viscount Wavell's tenure was 1^st October, 1943 - 21^st February, 1947.

Ranade worked for social reform in the areas of child marriage, widow remarriage and women rights. He was a distinguished Indian scholar, social reformer and author.

This was the first advertisement of Indian cinema in Times of India dated 7^th August, 1896.

He succeeded Dumas as the French governor of Pondicherry. His ambition now was to acquire for France, vast territories in India, and for this purpose he entered into relations with the native princes, and adopted a style of oriental splendour in his dress and surroundings. He built an army of native troops, called sepoys, who were trained as infantrymen; men in his service also included the famous Hyder Ali of Mysore. 

Hindu College, Calcutta - 1817; University of Calcutta - 1858; Adam’s Report - 1835-38; Wood’s Despatch - 1854

Durgesh Nandini was written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1862-1864 in Bangla.

Captain William Sleeman was appointed by Lord William Bentick (1828-35) to suppress the thugs.

Wood’s Despatch (Magna Carta of English Education) – 1854; Macaulay’s Minute on Education - 1835; Sargent Education Report – 1944; Hunter Commission – 1882-83

The revolt did not spread to all parts of the country. It was not supported by all groups and sections of the Indian society. South and West India remained largely outside the fold of the revolt. Many Indian rulers refused to help the rebels and some were openly hostile to the rebels and helped the British in suppressing the revolt. The middle and upper classes, and the modern educated Indians also did not support the revolt.

Abanindranath Tagore is known as the leader of the Revivalist Movement in the field of modern Indian painting in Bengal.

Jawaharlal Nehru emphasized on setting up of heavy industries in the second Five Year Plan.

Alam Ara was the first Indian sound film directed by Ardeshir Irani. The first Indian talkie was so popular that police aid had to be summoned to control the crowds.

Lord Lytton (1876-80)

Lord Hastings (1813-23)

Ghashiram Kotwal is a Marathi play written by playwright Vijay Tendulkar in 1972. Ned Darpart: The Mirror of Indigo; translated as Neel Darpan; or the Indigo Planting Mirror, is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-1859. The play was essential to Neel Bidroha, or Indigo Revolt.

The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo’s major philosophical opus. It combines a synthesis of western thought and eastern spirituality with Sri Aurobindo’s own original insights. Anand Math is a bengali novel wriiten by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1882. The Indian War of Indepence is a book based on the revolt of 1857 written by Vinayak Damodar. Sadhana, the Realisation of Life was written by Rabindranath Tagore.

Indigo Revolt – 1860; Santhal Rebellion – 1855-56; Deccan Riot – 1875; Mutiny of Sepoys – 1857 

Tipu Sultan established embassies in France, Turkey and Egypt on modern lines.

John Shore planned Permanent Settlement and it was introduced in 1793 by Lord Cornwallis. Zamindars were made the owners of the land and the British got a fixed share of 10/11^th of the revenue collected by the Zamindars.