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

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."

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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".

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.