1901-19 India

Question 1

Date of partition of Bengal

Answer 1

October 16th 1905

Question 2

Simla delegation date

Answer 2

1906 October

Question 3

Curzons greatest success

Answer 3

Creating buffer zone between the developed Indo-Gangetic plains and lawless Afghan tribes beyond which lay the Russian empire whom Britain had semi fought against during the great game of the latter half of 19th century

Question 4

When was the great game

Answer 4

Latter half of nineteenth century

Question 5

What did curZon foolishly become convinced of

Answer 5

That Russians were moving into Tibet, an area beyond the Himalaya ruled by monks

Question 6

Who did CurZon send to Tibet and when

Answer 6

1904: curZon ordered Sir Francis Younghusband ti investigate

Question 7

What did Sir Francis Younghusband’s team in Tibet do

Answer 7

Found no Russians and annexed Tibet by machine gunning Tibetan monks simply trying to defend their territory

Question 8

What did killing monks and annexing Tibet even though there were no Russians there do

Answer 8

Tarnished image of a civilised, competent empire

Question 9

CurZon increased railway network by how much

Answer 9

43,000 to 53,000

Question 10

CurZon increased area of irrigated land by

Answer 10

3 million hectares

Question 11

What did CurZon work to preserve

Answer 11

The Taj Mahal

Question 12

What did CurZon do in his second term when he instituted an inquiry into the state of Indian higher education

Answer 12

Instituted inquiry into Indian higher education but failed to include any indians on the the committee

Question 13

What followed the committee meeting on the higher education of Indians without any Indians

Answer 13

The Universities Act

Question 14

Date of the Universities Act

Answer 14

1904

Question 15

What did universities act 1904 lead to

Answer 15

Aimed to restrict huge growth in no of private colleges to include more centrally nominated officials on uni governing bodies

Question 16

How was 1904 universities act received

Answer 16

Growing Indian middle class perceived it as an attack on its interests and an insult to its capability . Resentment ready to turn to resistance

Question 17

When organising committee of Congress became representatives, in early 1900s what was the prob

Answer 17

There were no general elections in which it might put up candidates

Question 18

Since Congress couldn’t be a part of electisons at start of 1900s, how did they lobby

Answer 18

Congress lobbied MPs in Brit itself
So most of Congress’ early activity was directed at raising money to fund a small organisation, office and newspaper in London

Question 19

What did Congress want around 1905 ish

Answer 19

Increasing education

Access to positions in the administration of India

Question 20

Pre Partition Bengal was techinically a ?

Answer 20

Province

Question 21

Bengal as a province pre-partition contained how many ppl

Answer 21

78 million, a population twice as large as Britain’s

Question 22

Problems of Bengal pre -partition

Answer 22

Vulnerable to famine when the monsoon failed

High concentration of workers made it prone to unrest

Question 23

Example of workers unrest in Bengal pre partition

Answer 23

Blue Mutiny of indigo workers

Question 24

what did curzon establish in every province

Answer 24

in 1904 he established a criminal investigation department in every province