History Of Human Rights Movements Set 9

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Q1 | ....................edited a women journal, Bharati, thus earning herself thedistinction of being the first Indian woman editor.
  • ramabai saraswati
  • swarnakumari devi
  • sarala devi chaudhurani
  • annie besant
Q2 | .................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years laterstarted the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.
  • ramabai saraswati
  • annie besant
  • sarojini naidu
  • malati patwardhan
Q3 | In 1910, ................. formed the Bharat Stree Mandal (Great Circle of India Women) with the object of bringing together“women of all castes, creeds, classes and parties… on the basis of their common interest in the moral and material progress of the women of India.”
  • sarala devi chaudhurani
  • ramabai saraswati
  • annie besant
  • sarojini naidu
Q4 | Women’s Indian Association (WIA) was founded in ................ by AnnieBesant, Margaret Cousins and Dorothy Jinarajadasa, all three Irish women Theosophists, who had been suffragettes in their own country.
  • 1907
  • 1917
  • 1932
  • 1937
Q5 | .............was in a sense the first all India women’s association with the clearobjective of securing voting rights for women.
  • wia
  • icescr
  • unifem
  • unesco
Q6 | Travancore-Cochin, a princely state, was the first to give voting rights towomen in 1920, followed by Madras and Bombay in.............
  • 1911
  • 1921
  • 1931
  • 1936
Q7 | In the elections held in 1926, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya stood for the................ Legislative Council elections from Mangalore but was defeated by a narrow margin.
  • madras
  • pune
  • jharkhand
  • calcutta
Q8 | The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker andmedical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women’s cause.
  • dr.muthulakshmi reddy
  • edmund burkec
  • malati patwardhan
  • ammu swaminathan,
Q9 | Ten years after the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms, the Simon Commissionwas appointed in ............. as the first step towards the formulation of a new India Act.
  • 1907
  • 1917
  • 1927
  • 1937
Q10 | In 1917 .................. had led the Ahmedabad textile workers’ strike andin 1920 under her leadership the Majoor Mahajan, the Ahmedabad textile mill workers union was established.
  • anasuya sarabhai
  • maniben kara
  • ushabai dange
  • parvati bhore
Q11 | Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poorand industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................
  • jharkhand
  • pune
  • bengal
  • bombay
Q12 | The Telangana movement in ...........or the Naxalite movement.
  • kerala
  • jharkhand
  • andhra pradesh
  • bombay
Q13 | Meanwhile in Ahmedabad, what was probably the first attempt at awomen’s trade union was made with the formation of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) at the initiative of ................ in 1972.
  • ela bhat
  • edmund burke
  • malati patwardhan
  • ammu swaminathan,
Q14 | The anti-price rise agitation launched in ............... in 1973 by Mrinal Gore ofthe Socialist Party and Ahalya Rangnekar of the CPI-M, together with others, mobilized women of the city against inflation.
  • bombay
  • pune
  • jharkhand
  • calcutta
Q15 | The Nav Nirman movement, originally a student’s movement in .............. against soaring prices, black marketing and corruption launched in 1974 was soon joined by thousands of middle class women.
  • jharkhand
  • pune
  • gujarat
  • calcutta
Q16 | The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word ‘chipko’ whichmeans to cling.
  • urdu
  • malayalam
  • hindi
  • sanskrit
Q17 | The Chipko movement began in ................ in the small hilly town ofGopeshwar in Chamoli district when representatives from a sports factory came to cut trees.
  • 1953
  • 1963
  • 1973
  • 1978
Q18 | Women’s studies spread to India slowly at first and then more rapidlyfollowing the UN Mid Decade Conference in .............in 1980.
  • copenhagen
  • switzerland
  • sweden
  • finland
Q19 | The term "third world" was coined by .............Alfred Sauvy in an article inthe French magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952.
  • economist
  • historian
  • sociologist
  • mathematician
Q20 | With the …………….. collapse of the Soviet Union, the term Second Worldlargely fell out of use and the meaning of First World has become extended to include all developed countries.
  • 1941
  • 1961
  • 1991
  • 1995
Q21 | The term "……………. World" came to denote to countries (such asAfghanistan) with almost no industrial infrastructure to speak of, or as a synonym for "least developed countries".
  • first
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
Q22 | Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist.
  • egyptian
  • austrian
  • american
  • britain
Q23 | Samir Amin was born in ............, the son of an Egyptian father and aFrench mother (both medical doctors).
  • cairo
  • palestine
  • iraq
  • afghanistan
Q24 | Arriving in Paris, ................joined the French Communist Party (PCF), buthe later distanced himself from Soviet Marxism and associated himself for some time with Maoist circles.
  • samir amin
  • edmund burke
  • malati patwardhan
  • ammu swaminathan,
Q25 | With other students ................ published a magazine entitled ÉtudiantsAnticolonialistes.
  • samir amin
  • edmund burke
  • jawaharlal nehru
  • simone de beauvoir