Deck 9: Womens Empowerment and Activism in India: Pioneers, Movements, and Progress

Question 1

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

A)ramabai saraswati
B)swarnakumari devi
C)sarala devi chaudhurani
D)annie besant

Answer 1

swarnakumari devi

Question 2

.................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years later started the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.

A)ramabai saraswati
B)annie besant
C)sarojini naidu
D)malati patwardhan

Answer 2

ramabai saraswati

Question 3

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."

A)sarala devi chaudhurani
B)ramabai saraswati
C)annie besant
D)sarojini naidu

Answer 3

sarala devi chaudhurani

Question 4

Women's Indian Association (WIA) was founded in ................ by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins and Dorothy Jinarajadasa, all three Irish women Theosophists, who had been suffragettes in their own country.

A)1907
B)1917
C)1932
D)1937

Question 5

.............was in a sense the first all India women's association with the clear objective of securing voting rights for women.

A)wia
B)icescr
C)unifem
D)unesco

Question 6

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

A)1911
B)1921
C)1931
D)1936

Question 7

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

A)madras
B)pune
C)jharkhand
D)calcutta

Question 8

The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker and medical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women's cause.

A)dr.muthulakshmi reddy
B)edmund burkec
C)malati patwardhan
D)ammu swaminathan,

Question 9

Ten years after the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms, the Simon Commission was appointed in ............. as the first step towards the formulation of a new India Act.

A)1907
B)1917
C)1927
D)1937

Question 10

In 1917 .................. had led the Ahmedabad textile workers' strike and in 1920 under her leadership the Majoor Mahajan, the Ahmedabad textile mill workers union was established.

A)anasuya sarabhai
B)maniben kara
C)ushabai dange
D)parvati bhore

Question 11

Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poor and industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................

A)jharkhand
B)pune
C)bengal
D)bombay

Question 12

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

A)kerala
B)jharkhand
C)andhra pradesh
D)bombay

Question 13

Meanwhile in Ahmedabad, what was probably the first attempt at a women's trade union was made with the formation of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) at the initiative of ................ in 1972.

A)ela bhat
B)edmund burke
C)malati patwardhan
D)ammu swaminathan,

Question 14

The anti-price rise agitation launched in ............... in 1973 by Mrinal Gore of the Socialist Party and Ahalya Rangnekar of the CPI-M, together with others, mobilized women of the city against inflation.

A)bombay
B)pune
C)jharkhand
D)calcutta

Question 15

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.

A)jharkhand
B)pune
C)gujarat
D)calcutta

Question 16

The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word 'chipko' which means to cling.

A)urdu
B)malayalam
C)hindi
D)sanskrit

Question 17

The Chipko movement began in ................ in the small hilly town of Gopeshwar in Chamoli district when representatives from a sports factory came to cut trees.

A)1953
B)1963
C)1973
D)1978

Question 18

Women's studies spread to India slowly at first and then more rapidly following the UN Mid Decade Conference in .............in 1980.

A)copenhagen
B)switzerland
C)sweden
D)finland

Question 19

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

A)economist
B)historian
C)sociologist
D)mathematician

Question 20

With the …………….. collapse of the Soviet Union, the term Second World largely fell out of use and the meaning of First World has become extended to include all developed countries.

A)1941
B)1961
C)1991
D)1995

Question 21

The term "……………. World" came to denote to countries (such as Afghanistan) with almost no industrial infrastructure to speak of, or as a synonym for "least developed countries".

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 22

Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist.

A)egyptian
B)austrian
C)american
D)britain

Question 23

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

A)cairo
B)palestine
C)iraq
D)afghanistan

Question 24

Arriving in Paris, ................joined the French Communist Party (PCF), but he later distanced himself from Soviet Marxism and associated himself for some time with Maoist circles.

A)samir amin
B)edmund burke
C)malati patwardhan
D)ammu swaminathan,

Question 25

With other students ................ published a magazine entitled Étudiants Anticolonialistes.

A)samir amin
B)edmund burke
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)simone de beauvoir

Question 26

In 1957 Samir Amin presented his thesis, supervised by ................ among others, originally titled 'The origins of underdevelopment - capitalist accumulation on a world scale' but re-titled The structural effects of the international integration of pre-capitalist economies.

A)françois perroux
B)edmund burke
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)simone de beauvoir

Question 27

After finishing his thesis, Samir Amin went back to................, where he worked from 1957 to 1960 as a research officer for the government's "Institution for Economic Management".

A)cairo
B)afghanistan
C)austria
D)washington

Question 28

In 1970 ........... became director of the IDEP, which he managed until 1980.

A)simone de beauvoir
B)edmund burke
C)jawaharlal nehru
D)samir amin

Question 29

In 1980 ................. left the IDEP and became a director of the Third World Forum in Dakar.

A)samir amin
B)edmund burke
C)william wilber force
D)jawaharlal nehru

Question 30

Created in ............... Third World Forum assembles concerned intellectuals committed not only to the pursuance and expansion of the debate on the various possible development alternatives but also to make real impact on the society concerned through debates.

A)1935
B)1945
C)1965
D)1975

Question 31

…………….is a revolutionary economist because he was taught that "surrender to an unjust order is not acceptable".

A)samir amin
B)edmund burke
C)william wilber force
D)roop kanwar

Question 32

On the other part, many of the historians and intellectuals believe that the first world declaration on Human Rights was issued by…………...

A)cyrus the great
B)edmund burke
C)thomas carlyle
D)samir amin

Question 33

It is interesting to know that according to the documents and evidences, Holy Koran refers to ............as zulgharnein.

A)cyrus
B)jack donnelly
C)john rawls
D)confucius

Question 34

The .............. Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of human rights in the 6th century BC under the reign of Cyrus.

A)persian
B)british
C)french
D)american

Question 35

The concept of human rights has undergone a revolutionary change since the Magna Charta of .............. to the rights contained in the Unites Nation Convention.

A)1105
B)1115
C)1215
D)1315

Question 36

The Persian Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of human rights in the ............ century BC under the reign of Cyrus.

A)3rd
B)4th
C)5th
D)6th

Question 37

The Persian Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of human rights in the 6th century BC under the reign of ..............

A)cyrus
B)cynthia sahoo
C)catherene albisa
D)martha s. davis