History Of Human Rights Movements Set 9

Q1 | ....................edited a women journal, Bharati, thus earning herself thedistinction of being the first Indian woman editor.

Q2 | .................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years laterstarted the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.

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.”

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.

Q5 | .............was in a sense the first all India women’s association with the clearobjective of securing voting rights for women.

Q6 | Travancore-Cochin, a princely state, was the first to give voting rights towomen in 1920, followed by Madras and Bombay in.............

Q7 | In the elections held in 1926, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya stood for the................ Legislative Council elections from Mangalore but was defeated by a narrow margin.

Q8 | The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker andmedical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women’s cause.

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.

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.

Q11 | Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poorand industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................

Q12 | The Telangana movement in ...........or the Naxalite movement.

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.

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.

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.

Q16 | The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word ‘chipko’ whichmeans to cling.

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.

Q18 | Women’s studies spread to India slowly at first and then more rapidlyfollowing the UN Mid Decade Conference in .............in 1980.

Q19 | The term "third world" was coined by .............Alfred Sauvy in an article inthe French magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952.

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.

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".

Q22 | Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist.

Q23 | Samir Amin was born in ............, the son of an Egyptian father and aFrench mother (both medical doctors).

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.

Q25 | With other students ................ published a magazine entitled ÉtudiantsAnticolonialistes.