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After winning the 2008 presidential elections in Pakistan, __ faced flooding affecting over 14 million people in 2010 and the extrajudicial killing of Punjab's governor in 2011. He declined to run again but became the first Pakistani president to serve a full term.

Asif Ali Zardari

100

The term ___ was used for the first time in the Mandal Commission's report in 1980. This group falls between the three higher varnas, the Dalits, and the Adivasis, and accounts for roughly half of the Indian population.

Other Backward Classes

100

In 1972, Sri Lanka became a republic and ___ was made the country's religion, which further antagonized the Tamil minority.

Buddhism

100

"The fulfillment of [his] nationalism," Subhas wrote with obvious admiration, "was in international amity." [His] unfulfilled dreams and hopes were his "best legacy” according to Subhas. The above excerpt relates to which of Bose's political inspirations that thought it was a "matter of pride" that Bengalis were "susceptible to emotions."

C. R. Das

100

Upon the creation of the Azad Hind government, ___ song "Jana Gana Mana Adhinayak Jai He" became the national anthem.

Rabindranath Tagore's

200

The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organized by former Beatle ___ and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held in August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise awareness and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan.

George Harrison

200

___ is bordered by the state of Uttarakhand and the country of Nepal to the north, Bihar to the east, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the south, and Rajasthan and Haryana and the national capital territory of Delhi to the west.

Uttar Pradesh

200

In 2019, Jihadist suicide bombers believed to be linked to ISIS attacked churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, killing more than 350 people in ___.

Colombo

200

Imphal was the main objective of the INA's offensive into India that marched into the state of ___ from Burma.

Manipur

200

The current capital of Pakistan is Islamabad, but immediately after independence, ___ served as the capital. Today, it is the largest city in the country.

Karachi

300

_____ was more of a poet, musician, and calligrapher, than a political leader, but was reluctantly forced into the role of figurehead of the Indian Revolt of 1857 by forces entering Delhi.

Bahadur Shah Zafar

300

UN Human Rights Council Resolution 51/1 states that all individuals in ___ are "entitled to the full enjoyment of their human rights without distinction of any kind such as religion, belief, or ethnic origin."

Sri Lanka

300

In 1815, the Kingdom of Kandy was conquered by Britain which started bringing in __ laborers from India to work in tea, coffee and coconut plantations. The immigrants added to the existing community that would eventually be targeted by the majority Sinhalese.

Tamil

300

General Tsunamasa Shidei's cause of death on August 18, 1945 was listed as "death by war" at Taihoku Airfield. A 1956 report on Subhas Bose's death stated that the same cause of death applied, but that he was changing from the battlefield in Southeast Asia to ___.

Manchuria

300

The genealogy of the Bose’s could be traced back 27 generations to Dasaranth Bose in southern ___.

Bengal

400

In 1911, ___ founded the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School in Calcutta. She sought rights for women by establishing the Bengal branch of the Anjuman-e-Khawatin Islam in 1916. She also wrote several plays, poems, short stories, and her best-known work, Sultana's Dream.

Begum Rokeya

400

The States Reorganization Act of 1956 was a major reform of the boundaries of India's states and territories, organizing them along ___ lines.

linguistic

400

Veteran ___ politician Pushpa Kamal Dahal was sworn in as prime minister in December 2022. He previously held the prime ministerial post from 2008 to 2009, and again from 2016 to 2017.

Nepali

400

Subhas Bose was respectful of many religious traditions, but in his personal life he was especially devoted to a supreme being in the form of the mother goddess, ___.

Kali

400

Mujibur Rahman became the first prime minister and leader of an independent Bangladesh, but was assassinated in a military coup in 1975. He was eventually replaced, as leader, by ___ who, in 1981, was also assassinated.

Ziaur Rahman

500

____ is a Sri Lankan politician who served as president from 2005 to 2015. During that time he oversaw the end of the country's civil war. He later served as prime minister from 2019 to 2022.

Mahinda Rajapaksa

500

___, is a city of Gujarat located on the Tapi River still known as a center of commerce. It was called a leading port by a Portuguese traveler in 1514 and the British established their first Indian trading post there in 1612.

Surat

500

Due to public protests starting in the Spring of 2022, President Gotabaya Rajapakse fled Sri Lanka and ___ was elected president by the parliament days later.

Ranil Wickremesinghe

500

In early 1936, Subhas Bose had discussions in England with the secretary of state for India, talked with the former viceroy of India, and met the current leader of the Labour Party and future prime minister, ___.

Clement Atlee

500

Talks between the Bengal Congress and the ___ party to form a coalition government in Bengal collapsed in March 1937. Instead, Fazlul Huq formed a government alliance with the Muslim League.

Krishak Praja