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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Bengal with the correct year: An independent Bengal Sultanate was formed in ______ and ruled the region for two centuries, during which Islam was the state relig…
  2. Complete the sentence about Sena dynasty with the correct year: After him came Hemanta Sena, who usurped power and styled himself king in ______ AD.
  3. Complete the sentence about Sena dynasty with the correct year: Lakshmana Sena succeeded Ballala Sena in ______, ruled Bengal for approximately 20 years, and expanded the Sena dynasty to Odisha, possi…
  4. Complete the sentence about Sena dynasty with the correct year: The Palas were ousted in totality, and their entire territory annexed sometime after ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Sena dynasty with the correct year: In the Asiatic Society's proceeding for January ______, an account of the copperplate states that three villages were given to a Brahmin…
  6. Complete the sentence about Bengal Sultanate with the correct year: In ______, the royal capital of Gaur was the fifth-most populous city in the world.
  7. Complete the sentence about Mughal Bengal with the correct year: In ______, Babur defeated Sultan Nasiruddin Nasrat Shah of the Bengal Sultanate during the Battle of Ghaghra.
  8. Complete the sentence about Battle of Plassey with the correct year: The battle helped the British East India Company take complete control of Bengal in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Battle of Plassey with the correct year: Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah at Plassey in ______ and captured Calcutta.
  10. Complete the sentence about Battle of Plassey with the correct year: In September ______, Mahé de La Bourdonnais landed off Madras with a naval squadron and laid siege to the port city.
  11. Complete the sentence about Robert Clive with the correct year: Clive rapidly rose through the military ranks of the EIC and was eventually credited with establishing Company rule in Bengal by winning…
  12. Complete the sentence about Robert Clive with the correct year: In ______ he was hired by the EIC to return to India, where he secured the company's trade interests by overthrowing the ruler of Bengal…
  13. Complete the sentence about Robert Clive with the correct year: In ______ Clive's father acquired for him a position as a "factor" or company agent in the service of the East India Company, and Clive…
  14. Complete the sentence about Robert Clive with the correct year: Over the forty years since the death of the Emperor Aurangzeb in ______, the power of the emperor had gradually fallen into the hands of…
  15. Complete the sentence about Siraj ud-Daulah with the correct year: Siraj succeeded his maternal grandfather, Alivardi Khan as the Nawab of Bengal in April ______ at the age of 23.
  16. Complete the sentence about Siraj ud-Daulah with the correct year: Betrayed by Jogot Shet, Raybollob, Umichad, Lokkonshen Mir Jafar, the commander of Nawab's army, Siraj lost the Battle of Plassey on…
  17. Complete the sentence about Siraj ud-Daulah with the correct year: Siraj was born to the family of Mirza Muhammad Hashim and Amina Begum in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Siraj ud-Daulah with the correct year: In ______, Siraj revolted against his grandfather and seized Patna, but quickly surrendered and was forgiven.
  19. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: Mir Jafar received military support from the East India Company until ______, when he failed to satisfy various British demands.
  20. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: In ______, Robert Clive discovered that Jafar had made a treaty with the Dutch East India Company at Chinsurah through his agent Khoja Waji…
  21. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: In October ______, the company forced him to abdicate in favor of Qasim.
  22. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: Jafar was restored as the Nawab in ______ with the support of the company.
  23. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: Jafar ruled until his death on 5 February ______ and lies buried at the Jafarganj Cemetery in Murshidabad.
  24. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: In ______ the Maratha Empire led by Raghoji I Bhonsle, began to raid, pillage and annex the territories of Alivardi Khan, the Nawab of Beng…
  25. Complete the sentence about Mir Jafar with the correct year: Mir Jafar was the principal general of Alivardi Khan's successor, Siraj ud-Daulah, who led the Nawab's army to victory against the British…
  26. Complete the sentence about Permanent Settlement with the correct year: The Cornwallis Code of ______ divided the East India Company's service personnel into three branches: revenue, judicial, and com…
  27. Complete the sentence about Permanent Settlement with the correct year: The system eventually spread all over northern India by a series of regulations dated 1 May ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Permanent Settlement with the correct year: In ______ Charles Cornwallis was sent out to India to reform the company's practices.
  29. Complete the sentence about Partition of Bengal with the correct year: To appease Bengali sentiment and in response to the Swadeshi movement's riots in protest against the policy, Bengal was reunited…
  30. Complete the sentence about Partition of Bengal with the correct year: Government schools were spurned, and on 16 October ______, the day of partition, schools and shops were blockaded.
  31. Complete the sentence about Bengal Presidency with the correct year: For many years, the governor of Bengal was concurrently the governor-general of India and Calcutta was the capital of India until _…
  32. Complete the sentence about Bengal Presidency with the correct year: The Bengal Presidency emerged from trading posts established in the Bengal Subah of Mughal Empire, during the reign of Emperor Jaha…
  33. Complete the sentence about Bengal Presidency with the correct year: After this, the Bengal province was later merged with the Presidency of Fort William but under the suzerainty of the Emperor until…
  34. Complete the sentence about Bengal Presidency with the correct year: The lower territories were organised into the Bengal Division and put in charge of lieutenant-governor as well in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Direct Action Day with the correct year: In ______, the Indian independence movement against the British Raj had reached a key stage.
  36. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition of India in ______ was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Do…
  37. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act ______ and resulted in the end of the British Raj, or Crown rule in Ind…
  38. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: The secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in ______ was a later partition of Pakistan, and not of India.
  39. Complete the sentence about Partition of India with the correct year: In ______, Viceroy of India Lord Curzon split it into the Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam and the Hindu-major…
  40. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: In ______, East Pakistan became the newly independent state Bangladesh, which means "country of Bengal" or "country of Bengalis" or "la…
  41. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: The Constitution of Pakistan of ______ replaced the Pakistani monarchy with an Islamic republic.
  42. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: The ______ Pakistani coup d'état brought General Ayub Khan to power.
  43. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: Khan enacted the Constitution of Pakistan of ______ which ended universal suffrage.
  44. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: By ______, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman emerged as the preeminent opposition leader in Pakistan and launched the six-point movement for autono…
  45. Complete the sentence about East Pakistan with the correct year: The ______ uprising in East Pakistan contributed to Ayub Khan's overthrow.
  46. Complete the sentence about Bengali Language Movement with the correct year: The students of the University of Dhaka and other political activists defied the law and organised a protest on 21 February…
  47. Complete the sentence about Bengali Language Movement with the correct year: After years of conflict, the central government relented and granted official status to the Bengali language in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Language Movement Day with the correct year: In ______, a key resolution at a national education summit in Karachi advocated Urdu as the sole state language and its exclusi…
  49. Complete the sentence about Language Movement Day with the correct year: At nine o'clock on the morning of 21 February ______, students began gathering on the premises of the University of Dhaka in de…
  50. Complete the sentence about Language Movement Day with the correct year: On 7 May ______, the constituent assembly resolved, with the Muslim League's support, to grant official status to Bengali.
  51. Complete the sentence about Language Movement Day with the correct year: Although the question of official languages was settled by ______, the military regime of Ayub Khan promoted the interests of W…
  52. Complete the sentence about International Mother Language Day with the correct year: The demand was raised first by Dhirendranath Datta from East Pakistan on 23 February ______, in the Constituent Ass…
  53. Complete the sentence about International Mother Language Day with the correct year: Rafiq proposed the date as 21 February to commemorate the ______ killings in Dhaka during the Language Movement.
  54. Complete the sentence about Awami League with the correct year: Founded on 23 June ______, it played a vital role in the country's struggle for independence.
  55. Complete the sentence about Awami League with the correct year: After the 15 August ______ coup d'état, the party was made onto the political sidelines, and many of its senior leaders and activists we…
  56. Complete the sentence about Awami League with the correct year: In ______, Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, became the president of the party.
  57. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the correct year: In ______, he became part of a liberal, secular and left-wing faction which later became the Awami League.
  58. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the correct year: In ______, Mujib led the Awami League to win Pakistan's first general election.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with the correct year: In the late hours of 25 March ______, the Pakistan Army arrested Sheikh Mujib on charges of treason and carried out a genocide…
  60. Complete the sentence about Agartala Conspiracy Case with the correct year: The case was filed in early ______ and implicated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and others in conspiring with India against the stab…
  61. Complete the sentence about 1970 Pakistani general election with the correct year: General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December ______ to elect members of the National Assembly.
  62. Complete the sentence about 1970 Pakistani general election with the correct year: The Assembly was eventually inaugurated in ______ after Yahya resigned and handed power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
  63. Complete the sentence about 1970 Pakistani general election with the correct year: On 23 March ______, Pakistan changed from being a Dominion of the British Commonwealth and became an Islamic republic…
  64. Complete the sentence about Operation Searchlight with the correct year: The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major Bengali-held town to West Pakistan in mid-May ___…
  65. Complete the sentence about Operation Searchlight with the correct year: In early March ______, over 300 Biharis were killed in rioting by Bengali mobs in Chittagong.
  66. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Liberation War with the correct year: The majority of member states in the United Nations recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign nation in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Liberation War with the correct year: A proposal for an independent United Bengal was mooted by Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in ______ but opposed by…
  68. Complete the sentence about Mujibnagar government with the correct year: After the ______ general election, the military administration of Pakistan failed to hand over power to the elected legislators…
  69. Complete the sentence about Mujibnagar government with the correct year: On 1 March ______, Yahya Khan postponed the inaugural session of the National Assembly on 3 March, indefinitely.
  70. Complete the sentence about Mukti Bahini with the correct year: A formal military leadership of the resistance was created in April ______ under the Provisional Government of Bangladesh.
  71. Complete the sentence about Mukti Bahini with the correct year: The Bangladesh Armed Forces were established on 4 April ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Mukti Bahini with the correct year: During the Indo-Pakistani War of ______, the Mukti Bahini became part of the Bangladesh-India Allied Forces.
  73. Complete the sentence about Mukti Bahini with the correct year: The Awami League had won the majority in the ______ Pakistani general election.
  74. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 with the correct year: In early March ______, approximately 300 Biharis were slaughtered in riots by Bengali mobs in Chittagong alone.
  75. Complete the sentence about Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 with the correct year: On 26 March ______, Major Ziaur Rahman of the Pakistan Army declared the independence of Bangladesh on behalf of Sheikh Mu…
  76. Complete the sentence about Genocide in Bangladesh with the correct year: The conflict and the genocide formally ended on 16 December ______, when the joint forces of Bangladesh and India received the…
  77. Complete the sentence about Genocide in Bangladesh with the correct year: A ______ protest in Dacca, the capital of East Pakistan, was forcibly broken up, resulting in the deaths of several protesters…
  78. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: On 7 March ______, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman gave his famous speech at the Ramna Racecourse, in which he called for a non-cooperation mo…
  79. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: The then major Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Kalur Ghat Radio Station o…
  80. Complete the sentence about Independence Day with the correct year: The Mukti Bahini, later with military support from India, defeated the Pakistan Army on 16 December ______, leading to the end of th…
  81. Complete the sentence about Ziaur Rahman with the correct year: One of the leading figures of the country's independence war, Zia broadcast the Bangladeshi declaration of independence in March ______…
  82. Complete the sentence about Ziaur Rahman with the correct year: Ziaur was a prominent Bangladesh Forces commander during the country's war in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Ziaur Rahman with the correct year: Shafiullah following 15 August ______ military coup, he was elevated to the position of Chief of Staff of the Army.
  84. Complete the sentence about Hussain Muhammad Ershad with the correct year: In ______, Ershad pushed parliament to make Islam the state religion, in a sharp departure from Bangladesh's original secular…
  85. Complete the sentence about Hussain Muhammad Ershad with the correct year: Ershad was commissioned into the Pakistan Army in ______ from 4th Officers Training School course in Kohat.
  86. Complete the sentence about Khaleda Zia with the correct year: Afterwards, Zia became active in politics and became the leader of the BNP in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Hasina with the correct year: Born to the Sheikh family of Tungipara in Gopalganj, Hasina had little presence in politics prior to the assassination of her father in…
  88. Complete the sentence about Sheikh Hasina with the correct year: After years in exile, she returned to Bangladesh in ______, leading the Awami League in opposition to military rule.
  89. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Nationalist Party with the correct year: The party holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country with…
  90. Complete the sentence about Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh with the correct year: The party's origin lies in the original Jamaat-e-Islami organization founded by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi in ______ in Brit…
  91. Complete the sentence about Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh with the correct year: In ______, the IDL was dissolved and the members of the erstwhile East Pakistan JIP reconvened to form the modern-day Bang…
  92. Complete the sentence about Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh with the correct year: As of ______, Jamaat's strongest demographics include younger and educated people and socially conservative women.
  93. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bangladesh with the correct year: The constituent assembly was composed of officials elected in the national and provincial council elections of Pakistan he…
  94. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bangladesh with the correct year: The Regulating Act ______ passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom was the first basic law in the Bengal Presidency.
  95. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Bangladesh with the correct year: The Government of India Act ______ established provincial parliaments based on separate electorates.
  96. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Bangladesh with the correct year: Since ______, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, situated in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, has been hosting the sessions of the Jatiya San…
  97. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Bangladesh with the correct year: The Assembly approved the constitution on 4 November ______, and it took effect on 16 December, the Victory Day of Banglades…
  98. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Bangladesh with the correct year: The Constituent Assembly became the provisional parliament of Bangladesh until the first election under the new constitution…
  99. Complete the sentence about Parliament of Bangladesh with the correct year: The opening ceremony of the present parliament house was performed on 15 February ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about President of Bangladesh with the correct year: The role of the president has changed three times since Bangladesh achieved its independence in ______.

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