osing 5.
5. Explain the following statements with
reasons.
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(3) The women's liberation movement
began.
(2) The Prohibition of Dowry
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(Amendment) Act was enacted in
1984.
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(3) The practice of untouchability was
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banned by law.
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(4) The Constitution gives cultural and
educational rights to minorities.
Answers
Answer:
* The women's liberation movement began.
The women's liberation movement was a political alignmentof women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s, and continued to the 1980s, primary in the industrialized nations of the western world, and which effected great change throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism, based in contemporary philosophy, comprised woman of racially and cultured - diverse backgrounds who proposed that economic, psychological and social freedom were necessary for women to progress from being second - class citizens in their societies.
* The Prohibition of Dowry.
Dowry Prohibition Act, Indian law, enacted on May 1, 1961, intended to prevent the giving or receiving of a Dowry. The act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal code were further amended to protect female victims of dowry - related violence.
* The Practice of untouchability was banned by law.
When the Constitution of India was adopted in 1950 it had a Chapter 3 related to the issue Fundamental Rights. It contains Article 14: Every person enjoys equal rights on the law and will enjoy equal protection of the law.
Article 17 is under Fundamental Rights is clearly says- “Abolition of Untouchability”.
* The Constitution gives cultural and educational rights to minorities.
The people of minority can follow and preserve their culture under the cultural and educational right. They can study in any institution and start any educational institution. The government gives all the right of culture and education to the minorities through this fundamental right.