Confronting Marginalisation Class 8 MCQs Questions with Answers

1. When was the Act framed in response to demands made by Dalits and others that the government must take seriously the ill treatment and humiliation Dalits and tribal groups face in everyday life?

2. What do you mean by Ostracise?

3. Which article of the Indian Constitution States that untouchability has been abolished.

4. What do you understand by manual scavenging?

5. Who out of the following are facing inequalities due to marginalisation?

6. Which term is meant ‘broken’ and is used deliberately and actively by groups to highlight the centuries of discrimination they have experienced within the caste system.

7. What are the names of manual scavengers in different parts of the India?

8. Who, being an adivasis, activist, has also pointed out that one of the violators of Constitutional rights guaranteed to tribal people are governments in the various States of India?

9. In which year did the government passed the Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act

10. When did the Supreme Court ban the practice of manual scavenging?

11. A person or a group that can express themselves and their views strongly are

12. What was abolished according to Article 17 of the Constitution states?

13. Which is the Article of Constitution that states that untouchability has been abolished?

14. What term means to exclude or banish an individual or a group?

15. Who wrote the poem on untouchability?

16. Who was Kabir by caste?

17. Which type of poems Kabir wrote?

18. How does government ensure to end the inequity in the country?

19. What is meant by the term ‘Assertive’?

20. Reservations play an important role in providing social justice to: