Sushmajee
Shishu Sansaar | Quizzes
Quizzes | |
Quiz-Women-1 |
Quiz-Women-1 Here are some interesting questions related about women of India What is Jauhar? What is Satee Prathaa?
Who abolished it and when? When was the first
free school for girls started? Where was it? When was widow
remarriage act introduced? And whose efforts were behind it? When was the Child
Marriage Restraint Act was passed? Mention some very
important interesting historical events from 1848? 1879-1883: Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly became the first female graduates of India and the British Empire. 1886: Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first women from India to be trained in Western medicine. 1951: Prem Mathur of the Deccan Airways becomes the first Indian women commercial pilot. 1953: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly 1959: Anna Chandy becomes the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court) 1979: Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Indian female citizen to do so. 1997: Kalpana Chawla becomes
the first India-born woman to go into space in US.
|
Created by Sushma Gupta on February 27, 2011
Contact: sushmajee@yahoo.com
Modified on
02/25/13