Colonial Era (1818 AD to 1947 AD)

The Colonial Era started with the British taking control over almost all the parts of India and ended with the freedom of India in 1947. The major events that took place during the Colonial Era are:

1829 AD – Prohibition of Sati

1857 AD – First Indian war of Independence, known as Indian Mutiny

1885 AD – Indian National Congress was formed

1930 AD – Dandi Salt March, Simon Commission, First Round Table Conference
1915 AD – Home Rule League was founded by Annie Besant

1919 AD – Massacre at Jallianwalabagh

1931 AD – Bhagat Singh was hanged by the British, Second Round Table Conference, Gandhi-Irvin Pact

1919 AD – Khilafat Movement, Jalianwala Bagh Massacre, Rowlat Act

1937 AD – Congress won power in many states, World War II broke out

1921 AD – Civil Disobedience Movement

1928 AD – Murder of Lala Lajpat Rai

1942 AD – Quit India Movement, Rise of Subhash Chandra Bose

1922 AD – Quit India Movement suspended after the Chauri-Chaura violence

1946 AD – Muslim League adamant about the formation of Pakistan

1947 AD – India gained independence and witnessed partition

 

Subscribe to get updates in Maid ID.

Readers Comments are the most valuable assets.

General Knowledge

1.       Nasir Uddin Mahmood was the last ruler of (Tughlaq dynasty)

2.       Which Delhi Sultan is credited with building the biggest water ways of canals? (Firoz Shah Tughlaq)

3.       The battle of Dharmat fought between  Dara Shikoh and Aurangazeb took place in 1658.

4.       Which leader of the Congress was totally in favour of the Cabinet Mission Plan. ( Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel)

5.       When Alexandar invaded India the rulers of North India were (Nandas)

6.       The Bhakti saint who first used Hindi to propagate his ideas was was (Ramanand)

7.       In which Veda have magial charms and spells been mentioned (Atharvved)

8.       With reference to Delhi Sultanate who was the founder of Sayyid Dynasty? (Khzr Khan)

9.       Who is credited with carrying Jainism to South India? (Bhadrabahu)

10.   Whose General was Malik Kafur? Alauddin Khilji.

11.   The Sun Temple of Konark was built by (Narasimhadeva I)

12.   The writs for the enforcement of fundamental rights are issued by (The supreme court and High courts)

13.   The concept of Welfare State is enshrined in the Constitution of India in (Directive Principles of State Policy)

14.   In how many parts is the Constitution of India divided? (22 parts)

15.   The introduction of no confidence motion in the Lok Sabha needs the support of at least. ( 50 members)

16.   As per the 87^th constitutional Amendment Act 2003, which census forms the basis of delimitation of election constituencies. (2001)

17.   To which kind of right does the right of property belong? (Legal Right)

18.   The impeachment of the President of India can be initiated in ( Either House of Parliament)

19.   Adequate ground for the issue of a proclamation of national emergency is ( War, External Aggression and Armed Rebellion)

20.   Under the provision of the Indian Constitution, a community can be declared a minority community on the basis o (Either Religion or Language)

Books and Authors / IV

Damsel in Distress	P.G. Wodehouse
Dancing with the Devil	Rod Barker
Dangerous Plaqce	Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Dangerous Summer	Emest Hemingway
Dangling Man	Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda	Geroge Eliot
Dark Room	R.K. Narayan
Dark Debts	Karen Hall
Dark Home Coming	Eric Lustbader
Dark Side of Camelot	Seymour Hersh
Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler
Das Kapital	Karl Marx
Dashkumar Charitam	Dandi
Daughter of the East	Benazir Bhutto
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens
Day in Shadow	Nayantara Sehgal
Day of the Jackal	Frederick Forsyth
Days of Grace	Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad
Days of his Grace	Eyvind Johnson
Days of My Yers	H.P. Nanda
De Profundis	Oscar Wilde
Dean’s December	Saul Bellow
Death and After	Annie Besant
Death Be Not Proud	John Gunther
Death in the Castle	Pearl S. Buck
Death in Venice	Thomas Mann
Death of a City	Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot	R.E. Harrington
Death on the Nile	Agatha Christie
Death of a President	William Manchester
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller
Death-The Supreme Friend	Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Death Under sail	C.P. Snow
Debacle	Emile Zola
Decameron	Giovannie Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi	D.R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon
Decline of the West	O’ Spengler
Democracy Means Bread and Freedom	Piloo Mody
Democracy Redeemed	V.K. Narsimhan
Descent of Man	Charles Darwin
Deserted Village	Oliver Goldsmith
Desperate Remedies	Thomas Hardy
Detective	Arthur Hailey
Devadas	Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
Dharmashastra	Manu
Dialogue with Death	Arthur Koestler
Diana-Her Time Story in Her Own Words	Andrew Martin
Diana-Princess of Wales : A Tribute	Tim Graham
Diana-The Story So Far	Julia Donelli
Diana-The True Story	Andrew Morton
Diana Versus Charles	James Whitaker
Die Blendung	Elias Canetti
Dilemma of Our Time	Harold Joseph Laski
Diplomacy	Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy and Disillustion	George Urbans
Diplomacy in Peace and War	J.N. Kaul
Disappearing Acts	Terry McMillan
Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums	Manohar Malgonkar
Distant Neighbours	Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy	A.Dante
Divine Life	Swami Sivananda
Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe
Doctor’s Dilemma	G.B.Shaw
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevensan
Dr. Zhivago	Boris Pasternak
Doll’s House	lbsen
Dolly-The Birth of a Clone	Jina Kolata
Don Juan	George Byron
Don Quixote	Cervantes
Don’t Laugh-We are Police	Bishan Lal Vohra
Double Betrayal	Paula R. Newburg
Double Helix	J.D. Watson
Double Tongue	William Golding
Double Teeth	U.B. Sinclair
Drogon’s Seed	Pearl S. Buck
Dream in Hawaii	Bhabani Bhattacharya
Dram of Fair to Middling Women	Samuel Beckett
Dreams, Roses and Fire	Eyvind Johnson
Drunkard	Emile Zola
Durgesh Nandini	Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change	Chandra Shekhar