History-One Liners

 

1-Home Rule League was founded by Annie Beasant.

 

 

 

 

 

2-Preamble has been described as the ‘Indian Political Horoscope’.

3-K.M. Munshi called the word for Preamble as ‘Political Horoscope of India’.

4-Who set up the first school of untouchables in India? Ans- Jyothiba Phule, 1948, Pune

5-The famous Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League was concluded in 1916.

6-Lord Canning was the Governor General of India during the Sepoy Mutiny.

 

 

 

 

 

7–Bal Gangadhar Tilak dominated the Lucknow Pact in December, 1916.

 

 

 

 

 

 

8-Myanmar was a part of British India from 1886–1937.

9-Charles T. Metcalfe was sent to Lahore to negotiate the Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh.

10-Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the first woman President of UN General Assembly.

 

 

 

 

 

11-Shimla Agreement between India and Pakistan was signed during 1972.

12-In the year 1950 Untouchability was abolished in India.

13-The Constitution of India provides Cabinet system of Government.

14-In the year 1956 Indian States were reorganized on a linguistic basis.

15-Indian Constitution is called ‘Quasi-Federal’ because it has Single Judiciary.

16-C. Rajagopalachari succeeded Lord Mountbatten as the first Indian Governor General of the Indian dominion till 26th January 1950 when India became a Republic.

17-The Lal in Lal, Bal, Pal was Lala Lajpat Rai.

18-The first visible effect of Constitution was Disappearance of Princely States.

19-India is a ‘Secular State’ means Complete detachment from the affairs of the religion

20-The purpose of the Ilbert Bill was To remove an anomaly in the Criminal Procedure Code of 1873, according to which no magistrate or sessions judge could try a European or British subject unless he was himself of European birth.