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.

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.

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.

Q4 | In September 1990, .................leader L. K. Advani started RathYatra, a tour of the country to educate the masses about the Ayodhya struggle.

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.

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 .................

Q7 | In fiction, Lajja, a controversial 1993 novel in Bengali byBangladeshi writer ................, has a story based in the days after the demolition.

Q8 | India attained Independence on 15th August ...............

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.

Q10 | Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam portraying ............ women like half- naked and sexually exploitable.

Q11 | In 1993, Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad organized first "AkhilBhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan" in Wardha, ............... to reconceptualize and transform "Dalit Sahitya (literature) into "Ambedkari Sahitya".

Q12 | Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad successfully organized Third Akhil Bhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan in .............. and became a strong advocacy force of this transformation.

Q13 | Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............

Q14 | Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"?

Q15 | One of the first Dalit writers was Madara Chennaiah, an 11th- century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of .....................

Q16 | Madara Chennaiah a Dalit Writer and an 11th-century cobbler- saint who lived in the reign of ......................

Q17 | The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when thefirst conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was held at Mumbai.

Q18 | Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writingsin ...............

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.

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.

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.

Q22 | Who founded Dalit Panther?

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.

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.

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.