Question

To the assembled guests and the watching world, I said:
Today, all of us do, by our presence here… confer glory and hope to newborn liberty. Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster
that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be
proud. We, who were outlaws not so long ago, have today been given the
rare privilege to be host to the nations of the world on our own soil. We
thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take
possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common
victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. 5 marks



(i) The extraordinary human disaster that Mandela has mentioned in the extract
is the policy of ____________
(ii) The speaker wished to refer to the victory as a common victory for …………
for peace, for human dignity.
(iii) The speaker called the victory a common victory because the entire world
was against the policy of Apartheid. (True/False)
(iv) Give an antonym of ‘common’ from the extract.
(v ) The Africans were considered as __________ before independence.

Answer 1

Answer:

The Indian independence movement was a series of historic events with the ultimate aim of ending the British rule in India. The movement spanned from 1857 to 1947.[1]

Colonial India

British Indian Empire

Imperial entities of India

Dutch India

1605–1825

Danish India

1620–1869

French India

1668–1954

Portuguese India

(1505–1961)