Indian National Movement Test - 1

Asiatic Society was a scholarly society founded on Jan. 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones, a British lawyer and Orientalist, to encourage Oriental studies.

Brahma Samaj mainly insisted upon monotheism.

Oudh (1856) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse. However, it was annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the pretext of mis-governance.

Simon commission - 1928
Dandi March - 1930
Gandhi-Irwin Pact - 1931
Poona Pact - 1932

The Indian Statutory Commission, commonly referred to as the Simon Commission, was a group of seven British Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon. The commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and most important possession.

Dandi March was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly.

The 'Gandhi-Irwin Pact' was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, the then Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London. It marked the end of a period of civil disobedience (satyagraha) in India against British rule that Gandhi and his followers had initiated with the Salt March (March–April 1930).

The Poona Pact refers to an agreement between B. R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi on behalf of Depressed class and caste Hindu leaders on the reservation of electoral seats for the depressed classes in the legislature of British India government. It was made on 24 September 1932 at Yerwada Central Jail in Poona, India. It was signed by B.R Ambedkar on behalf of the depressed classes and Madan Mohan Malviya on behalf of the Caste Hindus.

The strategy of `Divide and Rule` was adopted by Lord Curzon.

The Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5 c. 101) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was passed to expand participation of Indians in the government of India. The Act provided a dual form of government (a "diarchy") for the major provinces. In each such province, control of some areas of government, the "transferred list", were given to a Government of ministers answerable to the Provincial Council. The 'transferred list' included agriculture, supervision of local government, health, and education. The Provincial Councils were enlarged.

In 1940, in Lahore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the man who founded Pakistan, gave a seminal speech, setting out the need for a separate state for Muslims on the subcontinent. Prior to the division of India in 1947, Hindus and Muslims had lived together across the country, but Jinnah described them as two separate nations. Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs and literary traditions. Due to these reasons, he gave the concept of the two nations theory.

Vinoba Bhave is the author of the concept of Antyodaya

Dadabhai Naoroji's incredible aptitude for economics resulted in him writing a seminal text called 'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India' where its pages spoke of his renowned 'Theory of Drain of Wealth'. This theory simply described how the resources of India were being utilised in the interest of Britain. This theory provided ground-breaking insights to the various forms of exploitation carried out by the colonial British that took place in incalculable magnitudes eventually leading to the continuous impoverishment of India.

Dadabhai Naoroji was born on the 4th of September, 1825, to a Parsi family in Bombay. He was an intellectual, academician, economist, a staunch nationalist, a social reformer and an educator.