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ü Annie
Besant was the first woman President of INC in 1917 during
Calcutta session.
ü Sarojini
Naidu was the first Indian woman President of INC in 1925 during Kanpur
session.
ü Mahatma
Gandhi was the President of INC only once in the year 1924 during Belgaum
session.
ü In
1901 Kadambini Ganguly became the first woman to address INC during Calcutta
session.
ü INC
was founded by A O Hume in Bombay in the year 1885. WC Bennerjee was the first President
of INC.
ü Bengal
was divided in
the year 1905 and reunited in the year 1911.
ü Theosophical
society was founded
in New York in the year 1975 by Madam Elena Blavatsky. Later it is moved to
Adyar (Chennai).
ü Vijaya
lakshmi Pandit was the first Indian elected as the President of the 8th
United Nations General Assembly in 1953.
ü Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman cabinet Minister in India. She was
the Minister for Local self Government and Health in the congress ministry of
UP from 1937 to 1939. She was the first Indian woman ambassador to erstwhile
USSR from 1947 to 1949.
ü First
woman
Governor in India Sarojini Naidu for the state of UP in the year
1949.
ü First
woman CM
in India Sucheta Kripalani for the state of Uttar Pradesh (1963 – 1967).
ü Rajkumari
Amrit Kaur was the first woman Cabinet Minister in India up to
the year 1957. She held the Ministry of Health portfolio.
ü Leila
Seth-1st
woman Chief Justice of High Court(HP).
ü Lord
Canning was the Governor-General of India when 1857 revolt broke out.
ü Lord
Canning was the last Governor-General and the first Viceroy of India.
ü Doctrine of Lapse was introduced by Lord
Dalhousie. Satara (Maharashtra) was the 1st to be annexed in the
year 1848.
ü Portugal was the first country to establish
trade relations with India.
ü Lord
Macaulay introduced
English education in India.
ü Sir
Clement Atlee was the PM of England when India got the independence.
ü Mount
Batten Plan or June 3rd plan is envisaged the partition of India
into India and Pakistan.
ü Lord
Mountbatten was appointed as the 1st Governor-General of free India.
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ü First
Indian
Governor-General was C. Rajagopala Chari.
ü Mohammad Ali
Jinnah was the 1st Governor-General of
Pakistan.
ü Dadabhai
Naoroji (Grand
Old Man of India) was the first Indian to be elected to the
British House of commons in the year 1892.
ü Fourth
estate refers to “Press”. The term was first used by Thomas Macaulay in 1828.
ü Labour
party was in power in England when India got independence.
ü Lord
Curzon was the viceroy of India when Bengal was partitioned in the year 1905.
ü Red
Shirts or Khudai Khidmmatgar movement was led by Khan Abdul Gaffer Khan. Also
called Frontier Gandhi.
ü Hunter commission was appointed to look into
the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919.
ü In
the year 1907 INC split into moderates and extremists. This is popularly called
Surat Split.
ü Rashbehari
Ghosh was the president of INC in 1907.
ü Servant’s of India society was launched by
Gopala Krishna Gokale in the year 1905.
ü During Tripuri session (1939) S C Bose
defeated Pattabhi sitaramaiah (Gandhi’s nominee). Abdul Kalam Azad withdrew
nomination.
ü Direct action
was launched by Muslim league in the year 1946 to achieve Pakistan.
Hindu-Muslim riots took place in Calcutta.
ü In
Carnatic region French and British East India Company clashed for the first
time.
ü Vinobha Bhave was the first person to start individual
Satyagraha in the year 1940. Jawaharlal Nehru was the second to
launch the same.
ü Lord
Harding II was the viceroy of India when Bengal was reunited in the year 1911.
Same year capital was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi.
ü Lord
Wellesley established Fort William College in Calcutta in 1800.
ü Fort St.George is Madras was set up in Madras
in 1812 by east India Company.
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ü When
Aurobindo was arrested in the year 1908 by the British for being the prime
suspect in bomb outrage, C R Das fought his case and Aurobindo was acquitted
ü The
Tomaras built the city of Dhillika (Delhi) in 736.
ü Alberuni
(writer and scientist) and Firdausi (Poet) were present in the court of
Ghazani.
ü In
the first
battle of Tarai (1191) prithvi raj chauhan defeated Mohammad
Ghori.
ü In the second battle of
Tarai (1192) Mahmud ghori defeated Prithvi raj chauhan.
ü Qutub-ud-din
Aibak was the first independent Muslim ruler of India.
ü Aibak
died while playing Chowgan. (Persian game, this is Polo).
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ü Babur
defeated Ibrahim Lodi in first battle of Panipat in the year 1526. This is the
beginning Mughal Empire
ü Sadasiva
raya was the last ruler of the Vijaya Nagara dynasty. During his time vijayanagara kingdom was ruined and destroyed by
Muslim rulers in the battle of tallikota or Rakshasa tangadi or Bannihatti in
1565.
ü At
the second battle of Panipat (1556) Hemu was defeated by Akbar.
ü The
last Mughal
ruler was Bahadur shah. (1857).
ü During
the time of Ahmad Delhi was attacked by Ahmad shah Abdali in third battle of
Panipat in the year 1761.
ü The
Battle of Buxar was fought in
October 1764 between the forces under the command of the British East India
Company, and the combined armies of Mir Kasim (the Nawab of Bengal),
Shuja-ud-Daula (the Nawab of Awadh) and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor.
ü William
Hawkins visited the court of Jahangir in 1609.
ü Sir
Thomas Roe visited in 1617 and got the permission to set up a factory at Surat.
ü Subahsh
Chandra Bose was re elected as the President of congress in
1939 and defeated Pattabhi Sitaramaiah who was supported by Mahatma Gandhi and
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel. Maulana Abdul Kalam withdrew his nomination.
ü 1939
tripuri congress session Bose defeated Pattabhi sitaramaiah who was supported
by Gandhi.
ü Mahatma
Gandhi was the President of INC in the year 1924 during Belgaum session.
ü Gandhi
called Tilak "The Maker of Modern India
ü Gopala
Krishna Gokale was the mentor for both Gandhi and Jinnah.
ü Gandhi
Sequence: Champaran (1917), Kheda (1918), Ahmadabad (1918)
ü By
August 15 the rulers of all 552 states with an exception of Junagarh, Kashmir
and Hyderabad had signed the instrument of accession.
ü Portuguese
were the first
to come to India and followed by Dutch, English and French.
ü In 1893 Mahatma
Gandhi was thrown out of a train in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. With this
Gandhi launched his first Satyagraha.
ü
The
Vijayanagara emperor, Sri Krishnadevaraya (1509 – 1529) had won all the wars he
waged over a span of 11 years against his enemies.
ü
The Nalanda
University was started during Gupta period (5 BC).
ü
The
original site is located at Rajgir, Bihar.
ü
The
Nalanda University was ransacked and destroyed by Turkish Muslim invaders under
Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1193.
ü
NOTE: The Parliament has approved the Nalanda
University Bill 2010 and the Nalanda University will be set up at an
approximate cost of 1005 crore.
ü The
Gateway of India (Mumbai) was built 100 years ago to commemorate the visit of
King George V and Queen Mary prior to the Delhi Durbar.
ü The
foundation stone for Gate Way of India was laid down in March 1911 by the
Governor of Bombay, Sir George Sydenham Clarke.
ü The Gate
way was officially opened on December 4, 1924 by the Viceroy the Earl of
Reading.
ü The MRC
(Madras Regiment Centre) is the oldest regiment in Indian Army. It was raised
on December 4, 1758 at Chennapatnam (Chennai). The MRC was raised when 2
battalions were raised under Colonel Robert Clive consequent to the siege of
Fort St. George by the French. Madras troops fought in the battle of
seringapatnam and battle of Assaye under Arthur Wellington.
ü The MRC
is the only regime that was not bifurcated after Indian attaining the
independence.
ü Mahatma
Gandhi performed his LAST HUNGER STRIKE on January 12, 1948 for the
integrity of Hindus and Muslims.
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