Situating Independent India Set 8

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This set of Situating Independent India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Situating Independent India Set 8

Q1 | In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the RightLivelihood Award.
  • 1947
  • 1957
  • 1967
  • 1987
Answer: 1987
Q2 | Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........
  • 1924
  • 1934
  • 1944
  • 1964
Answer: 1964
Q3 | Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964.
  • chandi prasad bhatt
  • jayaprakash narayan
  • sunderlal
  • pandurang hegde
Answer: chandi prasad bhatt
Q4 | The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set upby Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................
  • gopeshwar
  • uttarakhand
  • mysore
  • mylapore
Answer: gopeshwar
Q5 | In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workersheld a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department.
  • 1931
  • 1941
  • 1951
  • 1971
Answer: 1971
Q6 | The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’s Chipko movement in U.P.
  • pandurang hegde
  • sunderlal bahugana
  • narendra modi
  • dalai lama
Answer: pandurang hegde
Q7 | Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protectionof Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India.
  • kannur
  • palakkad
  • malappuram
  • ernakulam
Answer: palakkad
Q8 | The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in.............
  • 1945
  • 1955
  • 1965
  • 1985
Answer: 1985
Q9 | The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
  • kuntipuzha
  • nila
  • pamba
  • periyar
Answer: kuntipuzha
Q10 | In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.
  • kunthipuzha
  • narmada
  • valapattanam
  • bharathapuzha
Answer: kunthipuzha
Q11 | In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study ofthe Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.
  • orissa
  • tamilnadu
  • karnataka
  • kerala
Answer: kerala
Q12 | In ............. Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, approved the project, with the condition that the StateGovernment enact Legislation ensuring the necessary safeguards.
  • 1948
  • 1958
  • 1968
  • 1978
Answer: 1978
Q13 | The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silentvalley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.
  • sugathakumari
  • p.valsala
  • o.n.v. kurup
  • ravindranath tagore
Answer: sugathakumari
Q14 | .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural HistorySociety, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.
  • dr. salim ali
  • prof. m. g. k. menon
  • dr. m.s. swaminathan
  • dalai lama
Answer: dr. salim ali
Q15 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................
  • agricultural scientist
  • historian
  • capitalist
  • chemist
Answer: agricultural scientist
Q16 | On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.
  • indira gandhi
  • rajiv gandhi
  • morarji desai
  • charan singh
Answer: indira gandhi
Q17 | On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
  • 1956
  • 1966
  • 1976
  • 1986
Answer: 1986
Q18 | Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement,started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river.
  • 1965
  • 1975
  • 1982
  • 1985
Answer: 1985
Q19 | The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian BorderConflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ...........
  • 1952
  • 1956
  • 1959
  • 1962
Answer: 1962
Q20 | There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............
  • zhou enlai
  • yasser arafat
  • mahmoud abbas
  • dalai lama
Answer: dalai lama
Q21 | India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along theborder, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier ............ in 1959.
  • zhou enlai
  • dalai lama
  • yasser arafat
  • mahmoud abbas
Answer: zhou enlai
Q22 | Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territoryalong the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • ladakh
  • kargil
  • burma
  • tibet
Answer: ladakh
Q23 | Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First KashmirWar.
  • 1927
  • 1937
  • 1945
  • 1947
Answer: 1947
Q24 | Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.
  • 1969
  • 1972
  • 1992
  • 1999
Answer: 1999
Q25 | ................provided global trade rules as well as a framework fortrade disputes from 1948 to 1994.
  • gatt
  • wto
  • cento
  • seato
Answer: gatt
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