Modern Indian Historical Figures

Diwan-i-Ariz-: This department was under the Arz-i-Mumalik who was the army minister. He was not the commander-in-chief of the army but looked after the recruitment, organisation, discipline, disbursement of the salaries of the soldiers and officers and all sorts of supplies to the army.

Mir Bakshi was the head of the military and intelligence department. He was not the Commander-in-Chief but was the paymaster-general. All intelligence officers {bands) and news-reporters (Waqia-navis) reported to him.

Jamshedji Tata founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company (TISCO) in Jamshedpur, which became the first major steel plant in India.

Lord William Bentinck

Guru Tegh Bahdur was the ninth  Sikh Guru whom Aurangzeb gave death punishment after he refused to change his religion to islam and protected kashmiri pandits from the conversion as well. He was publicly beheaded on the orders of Aurangzeb in 1675.

The Sukarchakia Misal was founded by Charat Singh, who was the grandfather of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Mahan Singh, the father of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was the leader of the Sukarchakia Misal.

Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, was executed by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in 1675 for refusing to convert to Islam and for defending the rights of others.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the founder and maharaja of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He introduced reforms, modernisation, investment into infrastructure and general prosperity. Ranjit Singh had eight sons. Kharak Singh was the eldest from his second wife.

Hashmat Khan attempted to kill Ranjit Singh while he was returning from a hunt, but Ranjit Singh managed to defend himself and kill his attacker.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh assumed full control of the administration of his kingdom at the age of 17, following the death of his mother and the end of the regency period.

Ranjit Singh was sent to Bhai Bhagu Singh for his primary education, as was customary for the nobility of the time.

Robert Clive is widely recognized for his role in the Battle of Plassey (1757), which established the East India Company's political and military dominance in Bengal. Other options like Dalhousie and Churchill are associated with much later periods or different contexts.

In the 1937 elections, the Indian National Congress emerged in power in eight of the provinces - the three exceptions being Bengal, Punjab, and Sindh. It formed MInistries in 8 out of the 11 provinces. The Viceroy at the time was Lord Linlithgow. He had issued a statement expressing the British government's desire to work with the Congress in implementing the Government of India Act, 1935.

Curzon Wyllie was murdered by an Indian student Madanlal Dhingra. Dhingra shot Wyllie at a Bloomsbury lecture hall in July 1909. He shot at Curzon Wyllie with V.D. Savarkar and some other revolutionaries. He claimed that he had murdered Curzon as a patriotic act and in revenge of the inhuman killing of Indians by British Government in India.