Test: Modern Indian History- 2 - Class 5 MCQ

New Mangaluru Port is the only largest port in Karnataka and it is 7th largest port in India

In September 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone of the bullet train project.
Due to their appearance and speedJapan's Shinkansen high-speed trains are referred to as bullet trains.  Any train of speed above 250 km/h is termed as the Bullet train.
The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train route is a 508-kilometer stretch.

Khilafat movement was launched with the purpose of pressurizing the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the war. All India Khilafat Committee was created at Lucknow by leaders like Muhammad Ali, Shaukat Ali, Maulana Azad, Hasrat Mohani and many others. It was also a period of Hindu-Muslim unity due to overlapping of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat movement.
The leaders of the Khilafat Movement joined hands with Indian National Congress for the upcoming Non-cooperation Movement. March 19, 1920, was observed as Khilafat Day and following that there was an all-party conference in June 1920 at Allahabad. The agenda of the Non-cooperation Movement was finalized.

Hind Swaraj is a book written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1909. It is primarily known for its critique of modern civilization. In it he expresses his views on Swaraj, modern civilization, mechanisation etc. It was written in Gujarati which was banned by the British. Gandhi then translated it into English. The book gives a diagnosis for the problems of humanity in modern times, the causes, and its remedy.

Subsidiary Alliance was basically a treaty between the British East India Company and therefore the Indian princely states, by virtue of which the Indian kingdoms lost their sovereignty to the English.
It was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India.
The Nawab of Awadh was the first ruler to enter into the subsidiary alliance with the British after the Battle of Buxar.

The seven sisters of Northeast India include - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Whereas Sikkim is called the only Brother of seven sisters.

Jhansi was an independent princely state ruled by the Maratha Newalkar dynasty under suzerainty of British India from 1804 till 1853, when the British authorities took over State under the terms of the Doctrine of Lapse.

The 1984 Hindi film, Utsav produced by Shashi Kapoor is a good place to begin. Girish Karnad wrote the screenplay and directed it. It was based on the eternal classic Sanskrit play, Mricchakatika, authored by Sudraka who lived sometime in the fourth or fifth century. Utsav is a brazen rape of Sudraka’s sublime work, to put it mildly. 

The most famous of such consecrations is the anointment of the Bahubali Gommateshwara statue located at Shravanabelagola in Karnataka, India.

Expansion of European production and trade, emergence of aggressive nation states in Europe and the decline of Mughal authority are the reasons for the expansion of European companies in India from the 1730s.

Jagat Seth was the largest financial house in Bengal.

Sidhu Manjhi was the leader of the Santhal rebellion of 1855-56.

The English East India Company initially ruled through indigenous institutions but introduced constitutional changes from 1773 onward. The Regulating Act of 1773 was the first Act to introduce Western institutions in India and the process continued through subsequent Acts of British Parliament.

Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal, succeeded in forming an alliance with the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam and the Nawab of Awadh Shuja-ud-Daula, against the British.

Tribal movements made demands for formation of a separate state, greater autonomy, and development of a script and for independent identity. Such movements were related to cultural and political revivalism. However, the main demand of these movements was to accept their rights over the forest i.e.autonomy over use of forest resources.