Indian History

The Battle of Plassey was fought on 23 June 1757 between the East India Company under Robert Clive and the forces of Siraj-ud-daulah. It marked a major turning point in British political power in Bengal.

The Phulaguri Dhawa of 1861 is regarded as the first major peasant uprising in colonial Assam. Peasants resisted revenue and agricultural measures imposed by the British.

The British opened their first factory in eastern India at Balasore, Odisha, in the seventeenth century; the question’s key identifies Odisha among the options.

Tamradhwaj is identified in the source with the Kachari dynasty, an important medieval polity of the Barak and Brahmaputra regions.

The Battle of Ghaghara was fought in 1529 between Babur and Sultan Mahmud Lodi, along with their allies.

Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya under the Bodhi tree. The event is traditionally dated to the sixth or fifth century BCE.

After resigning from the Congress presidency and leaving the Congress mainstream, Subhas Chandra Bose founded the All India Forward Bloc in 1939.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale was regarded by Mahatma Gandhi as a political mentor. Gandhi considered Gokhale a major influence on his understanding of Indian public life.

Bahlol Lodi founded the Lodi dynasty in 1451. He succeeded the Sayyid dynasty and ruled the Delhi Sultanate until 1489.

Mahatma Gandhi attended the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931 as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.

The Swaraj Party was founded in 1923 by C. R. Das and Motilal Nehru to enter legislative councils and obstruct colonial policies from within.

The Maitri Express connects India and Bangladesh, running between Kolkata and Dhaka. It is an important rail link between the two countries.

James Augustus Hickey founded the Bengal Gazette, generally regarded as India’s first newspaper, in 1780 at Calcutta.

The famous Khajuraho temples were built mainly under the Chandela dynasty of central India, chiefly during the 10th–11th centuries.

The Third Battle of Panipat was fought on 14 January 1761 between the Marathas and an Afghan coalition led by Ahmad Shah Abdali.

Malik Kafur was a leading general of Alauddin Khalji and led major campaigns into the Deccan in the early 14th century.

British policies in the Madras Presidency promoted cultivation of rice among cultivators in suitable areas. Colonial agriculture was strongly shaped by revenue and commercial considerations.

Aurangzeb was known as Zinda Pir (“Living Saint”) because of his austere personal life and religious reputation in contemporary and later accounts.

Warren Hastings became the first Governor-General of Bengal under the Regulating Act, 1773.

The Government of India Act, 1919, is known as the Montague–Chelmsford Reforms. It introduced dyarchy in the provinces.