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Situating Independent India | Set 2

1. Jagjit Singh Chauhan placed an advertisement in The New York Times proclaiming the formation of ............. and was able to collect millions of dollars.

Correct : A. khalistan

2. On 12 April.............., Jagjit Singh Chauhan held a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur Sahib.

Correct : C. 1980

3. On 12 April 1980, ...................held a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at Anandpur Sahib.

Correct : C. jagjit singh chauhan

4. On 12 April 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan held a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi before declaring the formation of "National Council of Khalistan", at ...............

Correct : A. anandpur sahib

5. In May 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan travelled to ............. and announced the formation of Khalistan.

Correct : C. london

6. In June 1984, the Indian Army led by the Sikh General Kuldip Singh Brar forcibly entered the Harimandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) to overpower the armed militants and the religious leader ..............

Correct : A. jarnail singh bhindranwale

7. The Indian Prime Minister .............. was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation.

Correct : A. indira gandhi

8. Following ............................ death, thousands of Sikhs were massacred in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, termed as genocide by the Sikh groups.

Correct : D. indira gandhi

9. In January............, the Golden Temple was occupied by militants belonging to All India Sikh Students Federation and Damdami Taksal.

Correct : D. 1986

10. On 26 January.............., the gathering passed a resolution (gurmattā) favouring the creation of Khalistan.

Correct : D. 1986

11. Indian security forces suppressed the insurgency in the early 1990s, but Sikh political groups such as the Khalsa Raj Party and SAD (A) continued to pursue an independent ............... through non-violent means.

Correct : A. khalistan

12. The Government of India had banned ‘The United Liberation Front of Assam’ organization in ...................

Correct : D. 1990

13. ULFA claims to have been founded at the site of Rang Ghar on April 7, ............., a historic structure from the Ahom kingdom.

Correct : D. 1979

14. The peasant insurrection of 1946-51 in the Telengana region of the erstwhile .............state was a pivotal moment in Indian history.

Correct : D. hyderabad

15. Before Indian independence, ..............state was a princely state within the territory of British India, comprised of three linguistic regions: the Telugu-speaking Telengana area (including the capital city, Hyderabad), the Marathi-speaking Marathwada area, and a small Kannada-speaking area.

Correct : D. hyderabad

16. The death of ..................enraged the people, sparking a massive revolt amongst the Telengana peasantry, with people from neighbouring villages marching, holding meetings in front of the landlords’ house, and declaring: “Sangham is organised here. No more vetti, no more illegal exactions, no evictions”.

Correct : A. komarayya

17. In October................, the Nizam’s government banned the AMS, and a spurt of arrests and military raids took place.

Correct : D. 1946

18. In February 1948, the ...................introduced a new policy aimed at encouraging guerrilla offensives, largely influenced by the success of the Telengana insurrection.

Correct : C. cpi

19. Following the capture of the razakars, a military administration was set up under General.............., and a military offensive was directed at the peasant rebels in the Telengana region.

Correct : A. j.n.chaudhuri

20. The Jagir Abolition Regulation was passed on August ............

Correct : D. 1949

21. General ................., the military governor made a statement from Hyderabad, calling all “communists to surrender within a week, failing which they would be exterminated”.

Correct : A. j.n. chaudhuri

22. The Telengana struggle withdrawn on October 21, .................

Correct : D. 1951

23. Naxalbari is a small village in the southern part of India’s .............. province.

Correct : A. bengal

24. The CPI (Leninist-Marxist) emerged when the Indian Communist Party broke up into several factions in...............

Correct : D. 1967

25. The Santhal tribals of ............., armed with bows and arrows, forcibly occupied the land of the kulaks and ploughed them to establish their ownership.

Correct : A. naxalbari

26. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the ............. Police detectives on July 16, 1972.

Correct : A. calcutta

27. The Naxalite movement, drawing inspiration from the .............. ideology, had a meteoric phase for about two years from the formation of the party till the end of June 1971.

Correct : A. maoist

28. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the Calcutta Police detectives on July 16,..............

Correct : D. 1972

29. ............. death marked the end of a phase in the Naxalite movement.

Correct : A. charu mazumdar

30. The formation of People’s War Group in Andhra Pradesh subsequently in 1980 under the leadership of ................ gave a new lease of life to the Naxalite movement.

Correct : A. kondapalli seetharamaiah

31. The revolutionary writers of the Jana Natya Mandali, the cultural front of the PWG, greatly helped in preparing the environment in which the .............ideology found ready acceptance.

Correct : A. naxalite

32. The Andhra Pradesh government banned the PWG and its six front organizations in.............

Correct : D. 1992

33. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency in ...................

Correct : B. 1975

34. The Indian Emergency of 25th June 1975-21st March 1977 was a 21 month period, when President................, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectively bestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties.

Correct : A. fakhruddin ali ahmed

35. The imposition of the emergency in ............... struck at the very core of these ideals, which constitute our democracy.

Correct : D. 1975

36. On 25th June 1975, Prime Minister ............ imposed an emergency in the country.

Correct : A. indira gandhi

37. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid when the ...............High Court set aside Indira Gandhi’s re-election to the Lok Sabha in 1971 on the grounds of electoral malpractices.

Correct : A. allahabad

38. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid when the Allahabad High Court set aside Indira Gandhi’s re-election to the Lok Sabha in ............. on the grounds of electoral malpractices.

Correct : D. 1971

39. In many ways the foundation for the emergency was laid when the Allahabad High Court set aside .............. re-election to the Lok Sabha in 1971 on the grounds of electoral malpractices.

Correct : A. indira gandhi’s

40. Many regard .............as “the Gandhi of Independent India”.

Correct : A. jayaprakash narayan

41. After the .............High Court verdict, “JP”, as Jayaprakash Narayan was better known, gave the call for a “Total Revolution” and also demanded the resignation of Mrs. Gandhi.

Correct : C. allahabad

42. Prof. ............., Secretary to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her chief official advisor during this period.

Correct : A. p.n. dhar

43. In his book “Indira Gandhi, the emergency and Indian Democracy”, Prof. ..............states that it was largely because of the opposition pressure that she was forced to resign.

Correct : C. p.n. dhar

44. ...............poem was “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high”.

Correct : A. rabindranth tagore’s

45. One of Indira Gandhi’s first acts on 26th June 1975 was to remove her mild-mannered and democratically inclined Information minister ................ and replace him with Vidya Charan Shukla, who she thought would better serve her Goebbelsian design.”

Correct : A. i. k. gujral

46. Vinod Mehta, who edited the sleazy girlie magazine Debonair from ............, was asked to have his articles and pictures cleared before they were sent to the printer.

Correct : C. bombay

47. The .............. conflict is a dispute over sacred space between the two largest religious communities in South Asia: Hindus and Muslims.

Correct : C. ayodhya

48. 'Two Nations Theory' was put forward by ............ in 1930.

Correct : A. muhammad iqbal

49. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in ............. on 6 December 1992 by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.

Correct : D. ayodhya

50. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December ............... by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.

Correct : D. 1992

51. 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.

Correct : A. uttar pradesh

52. 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.

Correct : D. ayodhya

53. In 1528, after the Mughal invasion, a mosque was built by Mughal general ................, who reportedly destroyed a pre- existing temple of Rama at the site, and named it after Emperor Babur.

Correct : A. mir banki

54. In September 1990, .................leader L. K. Advani started Rath Yatra, a tour of the country to educate the masses about the Ayodhya struggle.

Correct : A. bjp

55. On 6 December ................., the BJP and other supporting organizations organized a religious ceremony to symbolically start the building of a temple at the sacred site.

Correct : D. 1992

56. On 16 December 1992, the Union home ministry set up the Liberhan Commission to investigate the destruction of the Mosque, headed by retired High Court Judge .................

Correct : A. m. s. liberhan

57. In fiction, Lajja, a controversial 1993 novel in Bengali by Bangladeshi writer ................, has a story based in the days after the demolition.

Correct : A. taslima nasrin

58. India attained Independence on 15th August ...............

Correct : D. 1947

59. Indian Constitution came into force on 26th January ............ that the picture became clear regarding the structure of government and the rights of the citizens of India.

Correct : D. 1950

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

Correct : A. dalit

61. In 1993, Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad organized first "Akhil Bhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan" in Wardha, ............... to reconceptualize and transform "Dalit Sahitya (literature) into "Ambedkari Sahitya".

Correct : A. maharashtra

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

Correct : D. 1996

63. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............

Correct : D. 1992

64. Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"?

Correct : A. madara chennaiah

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

Correct : A. western chalukyas

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

Correct : A. western chalukyas

67. The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when the first conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was held at Mumbai.

Correct : D. 1958

68. Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writings in ...............

Correct : A. marathi

69. ............. 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 crude society.

Correct : A. baburao bagul’s

70. 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.

Correct : D. 1963

71. 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.

Correct : A. marathi

72. Who founded Dalit Panther?

Correct : A. namdeo dhasal

73. 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.

Correct : A. chipko

74. The modern Chipko movement started in the early 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of .............., then in Uttar Pradesh with growing awareness towards rapid deforestation.

Correct : A. uttarakhand

75. 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.

Correct : A. uttarakhand

76. In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.

Correct : D. 1987

77. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........

Correct : D. 1964

78. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up by Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964.

Correct : A. chandi prasad bhatt

79. The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up by Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................

Correct : A. gopeshwar

80. In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workers held a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department.

Correct : D. 1971

81. The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’s Chipko movement in U.P.

Correct : A. pandurang hegde

82. Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India.

Correct : B. palakkad

83. The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in .............

Correct : D. 1985

84. The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.

Correct : A. kuntipuzha

85. In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.

Correct : A. kunthipuzha

86. In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study of the Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.

Correct : D. kerala

87. In ............. Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, approved the project, with the condition that the State Government enact Legislation ensuring the necessary safeguards.

Correct : D. 1978

88. The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silent valley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.

Correct : A. sugathakumari

89. .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural History Society, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.

Correct : A. dr. salim ali

90. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................

Correct : A. agricultural scientist

91. On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.

Correct : A. indira gandhi

92. On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.

Correct : D. 1986

93. Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement, started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river.

Correct : D. 1985

94. The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ...........

Correct : D. 1962

95. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............

Correct : D. dalai lama

96. India initiated a Policy in which it placed outposts along the border, including several north of the McMahon Line, the eastern portion of a Control proclaimed by Chinese Premier ............ in 1959.

Correct : A. zhou enlai

97. Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3,225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in ............. and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Correct : A. ladakh

98. Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First Kashmir War.

Correct : D. 1947

99. Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.

Correct : D. 1999

100. ................provided global trade rules as well as a framework for trade disputes from 1948 to 1994.

Correct : A. gatt