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When was Battle of Plassey fought and Where?
1757 AD, After this battle the Brits became the real rulers of Bengal.
When was the monopoly of East India Company's trade in India abolished ?
1813
When was the first train run in India and where ?
1853 - Bombay to Thane
List some achievements of 'Harbinger of the Modern age in India'.
1) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2) Got Sati banned
3) Found Brahmo Samaj - Rationalism & Social Equality
4) Supported monotheism
5) Opposed - Idolatory, polytheism, rituals
Ramakrishna Mission - founder & philosphy
1) Founder - Swami Vivekananda
2) Vedanta philosophy
3) Oneness of all religion
Narayana Guru & Chattambi Swamigal from Kerala.
1) From Nayar & Ezhava communities repectively
2) Worked to bring these communities together.
Muslim Reform Movement - Salient points
Most prominent - Syed Ahmad Khan
- Muslims could make progress only thru education
- Denounced Purdah, polygamy, easy divorce
- Started the Aligarh Movement
- Started Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
(Later AMU)
Who found Arya Samaj ?
1) Found by Swami Dayananda in 1875
- Slogan : 'Back to the Vedas'
- Challenged idolatry & lack of women education
- Propagate true knowledge of Vedas
- Wrote - Satyartha Prakash
2) Took part in Shuddhi Movement
Chronology of Indian national movement
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