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.
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.
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.
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 ...............
5. In May 1980, Jagjit Singh Chauhan travelled to ............. and
announced the formation of Khalistan.
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 ..............
7. The Indian Prime Minister .............. was assassinated by her two
Sikh bodyguards in retaliation.
8. Following ............................ death, thousands of Sikhs were
massacred in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, termed as genocide by the Sikh groups.
9. In January............, the Golden Temple was occupied by militants
belonging to All India Sikh Students Federation and Damdami Taksal.
10. On 26 January.............., the gathering passed a resolution (gurmattā) favouring the creation of Khalistan.
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.
12. The Government of India had banned ‘The United Liberation Front of Assam’ organization in ...................
13. ULFA claims to have been founded at the site of Rang Ghar on
April 7, ............., a historic structure from the Ahom kingdom.
14. The peasant insurrection of 1946-51 in the Telengana region of
the erstwhile .............state was a pivotal moment in Indian history.
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.
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”.
17. In October................, the Nizam’s government banned the AMS, and a spurt of arrests and military raids took place.
18. In February 1948, the ...................introduced a new policy aimed
at encouraging guerrilla offensives, largely influenced by the success of the Telengana insurrection.
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.
20. The Jagir Abolition Regulation was passed on August ............
21. General ................., the military governor made a statement from Hyderabad, calling all “communists to surrender within a week, failing which they would be exterminated”.
22. The Telengana struggle withdrawn on October 21, .................
23. Naxalbari is a small village in the southern part of India’s .............. province.
24. The CPI (Leninist-Marxist) emerged when the Indian Communist
Party broke up into several factions in...............
25. The Santhal tribals of ............., armed with bows and arrows,
forcibly occupied the land of the kulaks and ploughed them to establish their ownership.
26. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the ............. Police detectives on July 16, 1972.
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.
28. Charu Mazumdar was arrested by the Calcutta Police detectives
on July 16,..............
29. ............. death marked the end of a phase in the Naxalite movement.
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.
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.
32. The Andhra Pradesh government banned the PWG and its six
front organizations in.............
33. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency in
...................
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.
35. The imposition of the emergency in ............... struck at the very
core of these ideals, which constitute our democracy.
36. On 25th June 1975, Prime Minister ............ imposed an emergency in the country.
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.
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.
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.
40. Many regard .............as “the Gandhi of Independent India”.
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.
42. Prof. ............., Secretary to the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and
her chief official advisor during this period.
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.
44. ...............poem was “Where the mind is without fear and the
head is held high”.
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.”
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.
47. The .............. conflict is a dispute over sacred space between the
two largest religious communities in South Asia: Hindus and Muslims.
48. 'Two Nations Theory' was put forward by ............ in 1930.
49. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in ............. on 6 December
1992 by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.
50. The destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on 6 December
............... by militant Hindu nationalist outfits.
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.
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.
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.
54. In September 1990, .................leader L. K. Advani started Rath
Yatra, a tour of the country to educate the masses about the Ayodhya struggle.
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.
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 .................
57. In fiction, Lajja, a controversial 1993 novel in Bengali by
Bangladeshi writer ................, has a story based in the days after the demolition.
58. India attained Independence on 15th August ...............
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.
60. Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam portraying ............ women like half- naked and sexually exploitable.
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".
62. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad successfully organized Third Akhil Bhartiya Ambedkari Sahitya Sammelan in .............. and became a strong advocacy force of this transformation.
63. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............
64. Who is called as the "father of Vachana poetry"?
65. One of the first Dalit writers was Madara Chennaiah, an 11th- century cobbler-saint who lived in the reign of .....................
66. Madara Chennaiah a Dalit Writer and an 11th-century cobbler- saint who lived in the reign of ......................
67. The term "Dalit literature" came into use in ............., when the
first conference of Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Sangha was held at Mumbai.
68. Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was pioneer of Dalit writings
in ...............
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.
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.
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.
72. Who founded Dalit Panther?
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.
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.
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.
76. In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the Right
Livelihood Award.
77. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........
78. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up
by Gandhian social worker, ............. in 1964.
79. The Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS) was set up
by Gandhian social worker, Chandi Prasad Bhatt in ................
80. In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workers
held a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department.
81. The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’s Chipko movement in U.P.
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.
83. The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in
.............
84. The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
85. In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.
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.
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.
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.
89. .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural History
Society, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.
90. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned .......................
91. On October 31, 1984 ............... was assassinated.
92. On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
93. Narmada Bachao Andolan is the most powerful mass movement,
started in ............., against the construction of huge dam on the Narmada river.
94. The Sino-Indian War also known as the Sino-Indian Border
Conflict was a war between China and India that occurred in ...........
95. There had been a series of violent border incidents after the 1959
Tibetan uprising, when India had granted asylum to ..............
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.
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.
98. Indo-Pakistani War of ............. is also called the First Kashmir
War.
99. Indo-Pakistani War of .............Commonly known as Kargil War.
100. ................provided global trade rules as well as a framework for
trade disputes from 1948 to 1994.