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1. The secessionist movement in the Kashmir Valley started in April ................
2. Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh (DGSS), was set up ...........
3. India's first Prime Minister is ................
4. SAARC Tuberculosis Centre (STC), ..................
5. ...............'s first president Kwame Nkrumah.
6. The partition included the geographical division of the Bengal province into .......................... Bengal, which became part of the Dominion of Pakistan.
7. The last British Viceroy was ....................
8. In the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the conditions were the reverse, with the ruler being a ................. and the population, } overwhelmingly Muslim (75%).
9. Pakistan's Independence Day is celebrated on ................. August and India's on 15 August 1947.
10. By August 15, ................all states geographically contiguous to India, except Jammu and Kashmir, Hyderabad and Junagadh, had acceded to India by signing the Instrument of Accession.
11. During his stay at Wardha, Vinoba Bhave brought out a monthly in ................., named, `Maharashtra Dharma'.
12. In 1528, after the Mughal invasion, a mosque was built by Mughal general ................, who reportedly destroyed a preexisting temple of Rama at the site, and named it after Emperor Babur.
13. The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
14. The Bandung Conference of 1955 was hosted by Indonesian president................, who gave a significant contribution to promote NAM.
15. In 1928 the location at Sairandhri on the .............. River was identified as an ideal site for electricity generation.
16. The SAARC Secretariat and Member States observe .............. as the SAARC Charter Day.
17. "The Indian Independence Act was passed in............."
18. Ambedkari Sahitya Parishad was formed in..............
19. This crisis ............. forced India to open up its economy to the world and adopt the policy of Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation.
20. After the .............High Court verdict, “JP”, as Jayaprakash Narayan was better known, gave the call for a “Total Revolution” and also demanded the resignation of Mrs. Gandhi.
21. The Naxalite movement, drawing inspiration from the .............. ideology, had a meteoric phase for about two years from the formation of the party till the end of June 1971.
22. Following ............................ death, thousands of Sikhs were massacred in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, termed as genocide by the Sikh groups.
23. In .............. the Chipko Movement was awarded the Right Livelihood Award.
24. Literature describing the human cost of independence and partition comprises ................... Train to Pakistan (1956).
25. ULFA claims to have been founded at the site of Rang Ghar on April 7, ............., a historic structure from the Ahom kingdom.