Exam Focus Checklist

• Battle of Buxar – Treaty
• Partition of Bengal: Partition felt like a "bombshell", date of partition, Swadeshi Movement, Annulment of Partition.
• Congress Sessions and Presidents: Founder of Congress, first woman president, first European president, sessions held in Bihar, representatives in the first Congress session, Muslim delegates in 2nd Congress session, president during Bengal Partition, session presided over by Gandhi, Resolution related to FRs.
• Praja Mandal Movement

• Gandhian Movements: Non-Cooperation Movement (NCM), Chauri Chaura incident, "Himalayan Blunder", Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), origin, Salt Satyagraha, Individual Satyagraha, Quit India Movement (QIM), organizations founded by Gandhi.
• Journals and Books: AnandMath, DinBandhu Mitra, Bahiskrit Bharat, India for Indians, Desher Katha, The Hindu, Kesari, Bengalee, Hindustani, Sudharak, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, Now or Never, Sandhya, Yugantar.
• Constitutional Developments Leading to Partition: Cabinet Mission, Cripps Mission, Wavell Plan.
• Boundary Commission.

• Land Settlements: Implemented by whom, in which areas.
• Montford Reforms.
• Agricultural Reforms: Baba Ramachandra, Swami Sahajanand, Swami Vidyanand, AIKS
• Sindh Conquest

• First Census
• William Bentinck - Sati: who abolished, leader against this.
• Bardoli Satyagraha: Leaders, impact.
• Frontier Gandhi

• Udham Singh, Madan Lal Dhingra: Killed whom?
• 1940s Chronology: Key events in sequence.
• Ghadar Party: Foundation and activities.
• Associations: Servants of India Society, Tattvabodhini Sabha, Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.

• Round Table Conferences (RTC): Participants in all three RTCs, Congress's absence in specific RTC.
• Indian Association and Other Associations: Indian Association as precursor to Congress, Bombay Presidency Association, Madras Mahajan Sabha.
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: Forward Bloc, Indian National Army (INA).
• 1857 First War of Independence: Origin, reasons behind the revolt.

• Governors and Governors-General: First Governor-General of India, policies towards Afghanistan, first Indian Governor-General, Lord Mayo - 1870 Resolution, Lord Lytton
• Social Reform Movements: Arya Samaj, Satya Shodhak Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Young India, Lokhitvadi, Satyasodhak Samaj, Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha, Faraizi Movement, Pagalpanthis.
• Educational Reforms: Hunter Commission, Strachey Commission, National Council of Education, Sadler Commission.
• Revolutionary Organizations: Abhinav Bharat, Bhagat Singh.

• Communist Party of India and Chittagong Armoury Raid: Formation, key activities.
• Tebhaga Movement: Cause, details.
• Dual System: Explanation, historical significance.
• Swaraj Party: Foundation, objectives.

• Battle of Wandiwash.
• Regulating and Council Acts: Indian High Commission, other related acts.
• Mutinies and Rebellions: Kol Rebellion, Indigo Rebellion, Deccan Riots, Moplah Rebellion, Ramosi Uprising, Waghera Uprising.
• Dandi March: Cause, significance.

"Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna": Who.
Freedom Movement Abroad: India House, Bhikaji Cama as "Mother of Indian Revolution".
Chittaranjan Das (Deshbandhu): Founded? President of congress?.
Hooghly as Piracy Base

• Sarabandi Campaign
• Kakori Train Robbery: Who, when.
• Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Tagore's renouncement of knighthood.
• East India Company and Princely States: Princely state(s) not annexed by the British.

• Land Reforms: Punjab Land Alienation Act, other reforms.
• All India Kisan Sabha: Formed, President.
• Khudai Khidmatgars
• Father of Dyarchy.

• Press Acts: Vernacular Press Act, .
• Complete Independence - Hasrat Mohani: Contribution to independence.
• "Sher-e-Punjab": Title and associated leader.
• Father of Indian Renaissance: Contributions, legacy.

• Swaraj Dal: when formed, why, role.
• First Railway Lines: When, from where to where.
• AITUC: Formation, INTUC.

1632 - company established
Swaraj Dal in Bihar
Salt satyagraha - opposed which tax, salt satyagraha in BGP
First congress ministry - leader, Bihar govt. resigned in 1938

Bakasht movement
Ambari Satyagraha, Rahul Sankritayan region
Champaran Satyagraha - who invited (village), who saved, leaders, against what, tinkathia system, Dukhi Dukhi Atma Dukhi Hriday
Agri leaders - during NCM, Swami Sahajanand, Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha, Kisan Sabha at Munger

College - PWC founded by?
Church - Oldest
Gandhi Maidan - renamed?
Governor of Bihar - First, First Indian, first after independence

Bihar separate state, Odisha separate
Khudiram Bose
QIM - Azad Dasta, JP escaped
Revolutionaries - Anushilan Samiti in Bihar

Bihar Socialist Party
Congress sessions in Bihar, Bihar Provincial Congress session
Student Conference - 16th session, Golden League
1857 - Kunwar Singh - entry in Jagdishpur

Journals and Books - Bihar Herald, MG and Bihar - Some Reminiscences, Searchlight, Bihari
First CM of Bihar, JP title - left Patna College, Creator of Modern Bihar, Prabhavati Devi, Bihar Kesari
Land Tenancy Act, Land settlements
Father of Pakistan, Raju Prasad imprisoned during 1942?
Constituent Assembly - Bihar members