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This set of Situating Independent India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Situating Independent India Set 7

Q1 | On December 6, 1992, Hindu Karsevaks destroyed the 16th- century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, .............., India, in an attempt to reclaim the land known as Ram Janmabhoomi.
  • uttar pradesh
  • madya pradesh
  • rajasthan
  • bihar
Q2 | The city of ................. is regarded by Hindus to be the birthplace of the God-king Rama and is regarded as one of India's most sacred and religious sites.
  • ahmadabad
  • calcutta
  • bombay
  • ayodhya
Q3 | In 1528, after the Mughal invasion, a mosque was built byMughal general ................, who reportedly destroyed a pre- existing temple of Rama at the site, and named it after Emperor Babur.
  • mir banki
  • bairamkan
  • rajathodarmal
  • l. k. advani
Q4 | In September 1990, .................leader L. K. Advani started RathYatra, a tour of the country to educate the masses about the Ayodhya struggle.
  • bjp
  • cpm
  • congress
  • janatha dal
Q5 | On 6 December ................., the BJP and other supportingorganizations organized a religious ceremony to symbolically start the building of a temple at the sacred site.
  • 1912
  • 1922
  • 1942
  • 1992
Q6 | On 16 December 1992, the Union home ministry set upthe Liberhan Commission to investigate the destruction of the Mosque, headed by retired High Court Judge .................
  • m. s. liberhan
  • l. k. advani
  • murli manohar joshi
  • sekkizhar
Q7 | In fiction, Lajja, a controversial 1993 novel in Bengali byBangladeshi writer ................, has a story based in the days after the demolition.
  • taslima nasrin
  • prakash karat
  • m. s. liberhan
  • tagore
Q8 | India attained Independence on 15th August ...............
  • 1907
  • 1917
  • 1927
  • 1947
Q9 | Indian Constitution came into force on 26th January ............ that the picture became clear regarding the structure ofgovernment and the rights of the citizens of India.
  • 1910
  • 1920
  • 1930
  • 1950
Q10 | Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam portraying ............ women like half- naked and sexually exploitable.
  • dalit
  • namboothiri
  • nair
  • kshtriya
Q11 | In 1993, Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad organized first "AkhilBhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan" in Wardha, ............... to reconceptualize and transform "Dalit Sahitya (literature) into "Ambedkari Sahitya".
  • maharashtra
  • bengal
  • u.p
  • delhi
Q12 | Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad successfully organized Third Akhil Bhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan in .............. and became a strong advocacy force of this transformation.
  • 1926
  • 1936
  • 1946
  • 1996
Q13 | Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............
  • 1952
  • 1962
  • 1972
  • 1992
Q14 | Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"?
  • madara chennaiah
  • dalai lama
  • ambedkar
  • r.c. datt
Q15 | One of the first Dalit writers was Madara Chennaiah, an 11th- century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of .....................
  • western chalukyas
  • vijayanagara
  • bhamini
  • mughal
Q16 | Madara Chennaiah a Dalit Writer and an 11th-century cobbler- saint who lived in the reign of ......................
  • western chalukyas
  • pandyas
  • pallavas
  • cholas
Q17 | The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when thefirst conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was held at Mumbai.
  • 1918
  • 1928
  • 1948
  • 1958
Q18 | Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writingsin ...............
  • marathi
  • malayalam
  • hindi
  • kannada
Q19 | ............. first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali (When I had Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a crudesociety.
  • baburao bagul’s
  • dalai lama
  • madara chennaiah
  • namdeo dhasal
Q20 | Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in............, created a stir in Marathi literature with its passionate depiction of a crude society.
  • 1913
  • 1933
  • 1953
  • 1963
Q21 | Baburao Bagul’s first collection of stories, Jevha Mi Jat Chorali(When I had Concealed My Caste), published in 1963, created a stir in ............. literature with its passionate depiction of a crude society.
  • marathi
  • bengali
  • binary
  • assamese
Q22 | Who founded Dalit Panther?
  • namdeo dhasal
  • dalai lama
  • baburao bagul
  • madara chennaiah
Q23 | The .............. movement is a movement that practiced the Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, through the act of hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  • chipko
  • panther
  • silent valley
  • cdm
Q24 | The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of .............., then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation.
  • uttarakhand
  • karnataka
  • west bengal
  • kerala
Q25 | On March 26, 1974, when a group of peasant women in Reni village, Hemwalghati, in Chamoli district, ............. acted to prevent the cutting of trees and reclaim their traditional forest rights that were threatened by the contractor system of the state Forest Department.
  • uttarakhand
  • rajasthan
  • u.p.
  • bengal