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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 201. |
....................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» B. swarnakumari devi | |
| 202. |
.................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» A. ramabai saraswati | |
| 203. |
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» A. sarala devi chaudhurani | |
| 204. |
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 |
| Answer» B. 1917 | |
| 205. |
.............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 |
| Answer» A. wia | |
| 206. |
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 |
| Answer» B. 1921 | |
| 207. |
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 |
| Answer» A. madras | |
| 208. |
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, |
| Answer» A. dr.muthulakshmi reddy | |
| 209. |
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 |
| Answer» C. 1927 | |
| 210. |
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 |
| Answer» A. anasuya sarabhai | |
| 211. |
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 |
| Answer» C. bengal | |
| 212. |
The Telangana movement in ...........or the Naxalite movement. |
| A. | kerala |
| B. | jharkhand |
| C. | andhra pradesh |
| D. | bombay |
| Answer» C. andhra pradesh | |
| 213. |
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, |
| Answer» A. ela bhat | |
| 214. |
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 |
| Answer» A. bombay | |
| 215. |
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 |
| Answer» C. gujarat | |
| 216. |
The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word ‘chipko’ which means to cling. |
| A. | urdu |
| B. | malayalam |
| C. | hindi |
| D. | sanskrit |
| Answer» C. hindi | |
| 217. |
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 |
| Answer» C. 1973 | |
| 218. |
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 |
| Answer» A. copenhagen | |
| 219. |
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 |
| Answer» A. economist | |
| 220. |
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 |
| Answer» C. 1991 | |
| 221. |
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 |
| Answer» D. fourth | |
| 222. |
Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist. |
| A. | egyptian |
| B. | austrian |
| C. | american |
| D. | britain |
| Answer» A. egyptian | |
| 223. |
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 |
| Answer» A. cairo | |
| 224. |
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, |
| Answer» A. samir amin | |
| 225. |
With other students ................ published a magazine entitled Étudiants Anticolonialistes. |
| A. | samir amin |
| B. | edmund burke |
| C. | jawaharlal nehru |
| D. | simone de beauvoir |
| Answer» A. samir amin | |
| 226. |
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 |
| Answer» A. françois perroux | |
| 227. |
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 |
| Answer» A. cairo | |
| 228. |
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 |
| Answer» D. samir amin | |
| 229. |
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 |
| Answer» A. samir amin | |
| 230. |
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 |
| Answer» D. 1975 | |
| 231. |
…………….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 |
| Answer» A. samir amin | |
| 232. |
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 |
| Answer» A. cyrus the great | |
| 233. |
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 |
| Answer» A. cyrus | |
| 234. |
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 |
| Answer» A. persian | |
| 235. |
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 |
| Answer» C. 1215 | |
| 236. |
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 |
| Answer» D. 6th | |
| 237. |
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 |
| Answer» A. cyrus | |
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