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G8.

5- Confronting Marginalisation Question Bank SuhasiniR

CLASS VIII
CIVICS CHAPTER 6 - CONFRONTING MARGINALISATION
QUESTION BANK

S. No. Question
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1 What does Article 17 of the Constitution state?
2 What do we mean when we say that untouchability has been abolished?
3 What does Article 15 of the Constitution state?
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4 When do Dalits 'invoke' or 'draw on' Fundamental Rights?
5 Which Fundamental Right do minority groups praticularly invoke?

6 Why does the Constitution grant different forms of cultural rights?


Given an example of a scheme launched by the government to promote social
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justice for Dalits and Adivasis with special reference to education.
8 Who was Soyrabai?
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9 What is the rationale behind the reservation policy in India?
Who decides which communities fall into the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes
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and other backward classes list?
How can Dalits and Adivasi students get admissions to colleges through the
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reservation policy?
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Why were members of Rathnam's family expected to wash the feet of the priests
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during the festival in their village?
Why did the powerful castes in Rathnam's village believe that Rathnam refused to
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continue the practice of washing the feet of the priests?
Why were members of Rathnam's caste angry with Rathnam for not participating
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in the festival?
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15 Which law did Rathnam use to file a case against those who set his house on fire?
Why was the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)
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Act, 1989 framed?

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What are the 3 levels of crimes that the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
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(Prevention of Atrocities) Act distinguishes between?
Give examples of crimes which fall under "modes of humiliation" in the Scheduled
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Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Give example of a crime which falls under "actions that dispossess Dalits or
19 Adivasis of their meagre resources" in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
(Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Give an example of a crime which falls under "crimes against Dalit and tribal
20 women" in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities)
Act
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21 What is manual scavenging?
22 The job of manual scavenging is done primarily by?
23 What is the Safai Karamchari Andolan?
24 What are the 2 main problems that manual scavengers face?
What does the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry
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Latrines (Prohibition) Act say?
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What does the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers
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(Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 state?
According to C.K. Janu, who is one of the main violators of Constitutional rights
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guaranteed to tribal people?

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