Top 250+ Solved History of Human Rights Movements MCQ Questions Answer
Q. In Bengal, ................., a prominent Brahmo Samaj leader, started awoman’s journal, held prayer meetings for women and developed educational programmes for women.
a. keshub chandra sen
b. ram mohan roy
c. ishwarchandra vidyasagar
d. r.g. bhandarkar
Q. ....................edited a women journal, Bharati, thus earning herself thedistinction of being the first Indian woman editor.
a. ramabai saraswati
b. swarnakumari devi
c. sarala devi chaudhurani
d. annie besant
Q. .................formed the Arya Mahila Samaj in Pune and a few years laterstarted the Sharda Sadan in Bombay.
a. ramabai saraswati
b. annie besant
c. sarojini naidu
d. malati patwardhan
Q. 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.”
a. sarala devi chaudhurani
b. ramabai saraswati
c. annie besant
d. sarojini naidu
Q. .............was in a sense the first all India women’s association with the clearobjective of securing voting rights for women.
a. wia
b. icescr
c. unifem
d. unesco
Q. In the elections held in 1926, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya stood for the................ Legislative Council elections from Mangalore but was defeated by a narrow margin.
a. madras
b. pune
c. jharkhand
d. calcutta
Q. The Madras Government nominated ..............., a noted social worker andmedical doctor, to the Legislative Council where she took up the women’s cause.
a. dr.muthulakshmi reddy
b. edmund burkec
c. malati patwardhan
d. ammu swaminathan,
Q. In 1917 .................. had led the Ahmedabad textile workers’ strike andin 1920 under her leadership the Majoor Mahajan, the Ahmedabad textile mill workers union was established.
a. anasuya sarabhai
b. maniben kara
c. ushabai dange
d. parvati bhore
Q. Women dissatisfied with the status quo joined struggles for the rural poorand industrial working class such as the Tebhaga movement in ................
a. jharkhand
b. pune
c. bengal
d. bombay
Q. The Telangana movement in ...........or the Naxalite movement.
a. kerala
b. jharkhand
c. andhra pradesh
d. bombay
Q. Meanwhile in Ahmedabad, what was probably the first attempt at awomen’s trade union was made with the formation of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) at the initiative of ................ in 1972.
a. ela bhat
b. edmund burke
c. malati patwardhan
d. ammu swaminathan,