History of Human Rights Movements | Set 3
1. ....................edited a women journal, Bharati, thus earning herself the
distinction of being the first Indian woman editor.
2. .................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years later
started the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.
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.”
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.
5. .............was in a sense the first all India women’s association with the clear
objective of securing voting rights for women.
6. Travancore-Cochin, a princely state, was the first to give voting rights to
women in 1920, followed by Madras and Bombay in.............
7. In the elections held in 1926, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya stood for the
................ Legislative Council elections from Mangalore but was defeated by a narrow margin.
8. The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker and
medical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women’s cause.
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.
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.
11. Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poor
and industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................
12. The Telangana movement in ...........or the Naxalite movement.
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.
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.
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.
16. The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word ‘chipko’ which
means to cling.
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.
18. Women’s studies spread to India slowly at first and then more rapidly
following the UN Mid Decade Conference in .............in 1980.
19. The term "third world" was coined by .............Alfred Sauvy in an article in
the French magazine L'Observateur of August 14, 1952.
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.
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".
22. Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist.
23. Samir Amin was born in ............, the son of an Egyptian father and a
French mother (both medical doctors).
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.
25. With other students ................ published a magazine entitled Étudiants
Anticolonialistes.
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.
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".
28. In 1970 ........... became director of the IDEP, which he managed until 1980.
29. In 1980 ................. left the IDEP and became a director of the Third World
Forum in Dakar.
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.
31. …………….is a revolutionary economist because he was taught that "surrender to an unjust order is not acceptable".
32. On the other part, many of the historians and intellectuals believe that the
first world declaration on Human Rights was issued by…………...
33. It is interesting to know that according to the documents and evidences,
Holy Koran refers to ............as zulgharnein.
34. The .............. Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of
human rights in the 6th century BC under the reign of Cyrus.
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.
36. The Persian Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of human
rights in the ............ century BC under the reign of Cyrus.
37. The Persian Empire (Iran) established unprecedented principles of human
rights in the 6th century BC under the reign of ..............