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

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.

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.

....................edited a women journal, Bharati, thus earning herself the distinction of being the first Indian woman editor.

Samir Amin is an ............... Marxian economist.

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.

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.

…………….is a revolutionary economist because he was taught that "surrender to an unjust order is not acceptable".

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.

The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker and medical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women's cause.

The Chipko movement got its name from the ...............word 'chipko' which means to cling.

In the elections held in 1926, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya stood for the ................ Legislative Council elections from Mangalore but was defeated by a narrow margin.

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".

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

.............was in a sense the first all India women's association with the clear objective of securing voting rights for women.

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.

.................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years later started the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.

Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poor and industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................