Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Crisis of democratic Order

Question:

Match List- I with List- II

List- I

List- II

(A) Anti Arrack Movement

(I) Gujarat

(B) Chipko Movement

(II) Bihar

(C) Narmada Bachao Movement

(III) Uttarakhand

(D) Total Revolution

(IV) Andhra Pradesh

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(1) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(2) (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
(3) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

1

Explanation:

Anti-Arrack Movement - It started in Andhra Pradesh in the early 1990s when women in rural areas protested against the sale of arrack (a local alcoholic drink) due to its impact on the health, safety, and finances of their families It was a spontaneous mobilisation of women demanding a ban on the sale of alcohol in their neighbourhoods. Stories of this kind appeared in the Telugu press almost daily during the two months of September and October 1992. Women took out a procession in Hyderabad in 1992, protesting against the selling of arrack.

Chipko Movement - This was a forest conservation movement where people, particularly women, in the Himalayan regions of Uttarakhand (formerly part of Uttar Pradesh) hugged trees to prevent them from being cut down. The Chipko movement began in two or three villages of Uttarakhand / Uttranchal (then UP) when the forest department refused permission to the villagers to fell ash trees for making agricultural tool. Women’s active participation in the Chipko agitation was a very novel aspect of the movement. The forest contractors of the region usually doubled up as suppliers of alcohol to men. Women held sustained agitations against the habit of alcoholism and broadened the agenda of the movement to cover other social issues. The movement achieved a victory when the government issued a ban on felling of trees in the Himalayan regions for fifteen years, until the green cover was fully restored

Narmada Bachao Andolan - This movement is primarily associated with the state of Gujarat, where the Narmada River flows and the construction of large dams on the river was protested. Narmada Bachao Andolan was a movement was to save Narmada and opposed the construction of large dams and questioned the very nature of development. It was led by Medha Patkar.

In March 1974 students came together in Bihar to protest against rising prices, food scarcity, unemployment and corruption. After a point they invited Jayaprakash Narayan (JP), who had given up active politics and was involved in social work, to lead the student movement. He accepted it on the condition that the movement will remain non-violent and will not limit itself to Bihar. Thus the students’ movement assumed a political character and had national appeal. People from all walks of life now entered the movement. Jayaprakash Narayan demanded the dismissal of the Congress government in Bihar and gave a call for total revolution in the social, economic and political spheres in order to establish what he considered to be true democracy. A series of bandhs, gehraos, and strikes were organised in protest against the Bihar government. The government, however, refused to resign.