Bhimayana_Short Questions

 These short questions from the graphic novel Bhimayana are directed only for the help of students studying under CBCS .

 

Bhimayana - (Navayana Publication)

BOOK 1

1. Who are the writers of Bhimayana?

2. What is digna?

3. What are the features of a graphic novel?

4. How is Bhimayana different from other graphic novels?

5. What is the art form used in Bhimayana?

6. Define the word bubbles used?

7. Who designed the titles?

8. How did the gond artists relate themselves to Ambedkar’s story?

9. What is the Khairlanji episode?

10. What was the eureka moment in the course of painting?

11. Define some of the animal imageries used in the novel.(5)

12. Who first used the word ‘Dalit’?

13. Who first used the word ‘Depressed’?

14. Who first used the word ‘Harijan’?

15. Narrate the circumstances that relate the discrimination that Mahatma and Ambedkar had to face? What is the difference?(5)

16. To whom is the Bhimayana dedicated and why?

17. Narrate some cases of discrimination that is still prevalent.(5)

18. What is untouchability? How has this been prevalent in the Indian society?(10)

19. What are your views regarding untouchability?(10)

20.How is Ambedkar the messiah of the untouchables?(10)

21. Narrate in brief the struggle that Ambedkar had to face because of untouchability.(10)

22. To which caste did Ambedkar belong?

23. Examine the use of the fish imagery in the first book of Bhimayana.

24. What incident of discrimination is narrated in the first book?

25. What long term consequences does untouchability have on an individual?(5)

26.What work did Bhim’s father do? What is the irony?

27. “They have brushes for the buffalo and shears for the goat. They won’t trim a mahar’s hair- they’d rather cut his throat.”(23) – Explain.

28. Is there any relation between Bhim’s long hair and his thirst? Why does the teacher say so?

29. Who is Nayak? Why does he not give water to Bhim?

30. What was the name of Bhim’s grandfather?

31. What equation of relationship do you discover between the British upper class Hindu , the Untouchables , the other castes such as muslims etc?(10)

32. Narrate the incident of Satara?

33. ‘Bhim’s heart is a bird in a cloudless sky’ What does it tell us about the young Bhim?

34. How does the behavior of the Station master in Masur change on hearing that the brothers were untouchables?

35. What are the difficulties that Bhim and his brother face on their way to Goregaon?

36. How is the life of the untouchables a continuous struggle for water?(5)

37. Narrate, in brief, the incident of the Chavadar tank?

38. What is the Mahad Satyagraha? When did it take place?

39.How does Ambedkar associate the Mahad satyagraha with the revolution of France?

40.What was the cause of the riots? What were its consequences?

41. How is the Satyagraha movement different from Ambedkar’s movement?(5)

42. “under Brahmin peshwa rule I would have been trampled to death by an elephant” – Why does Ambedkar say so?

43. How did the Brahmins plan to ‘purify’ the tank? What does it say about them?

44. Undermine some of the tenets of the Manu-smriti?

45. How did the caste Hindus react when the dalits in Chakwara won the right to use the village pond?

Book 2

46. Where and when is the story of Book 2 set?

47. What book was Ambedkar reading in the train?

48. What does Ambedkar say about his educational background?

49. What does it reveal about him?

{Q48 and Q 49 can be punched together for 5mks}

50. What does Ambedkar’s conversation with the stranger in the train reveal about the contemporary state of India? How does Ambedkar react to it?

51. What job had Ambedkar got in Book 2?

52. Why could Ambedkar not put up in a Hindu hotel?

53. Narrate the incident that happens in the Parsi hotel?

54. Was Ambedkar happy in his new job? Why?

55. What does the incident in the hotel reveal about tolerance in the society? How is this in conflict with Gandhiji’s idealism?

56. From where does Baroda take its name?

57. After how many days does Ambedkar leave his job? Why?

58. Where does Ambedkar spend the rest of the day?

59. Has the contemporary situation changed? How do you know?

 Book 3

60.Why is  Book 3 titled ‘Travel’?

61. Are the ideas about pollution limited to the Hindus? Enumerate your answer with reference to the text.

62.  What had happened with Ambedkar in the Nasik trip of 1929?

63. How did the doctor deal with the patient?

64. What does the incident at the Fort reveal about the muslims of the times?

65. Why does the female narrator say that ‘Ambedkar was more serious about equality than Gandhiji’? (pg88….check, section very important)

66. What were Ambedkar’s final words of advice?

67. What kind of battle is Ambedkar talking about? Did he/could he win that battle?

68. Why did Ambedkar demand for separate electorates? What did Gandhiji say? Refer to the Round Table Conference

69. What does the Indian constitution say about equality? (5mks)

70. Who was India’s first law minister?

71. Define the Hindu Code Bill.

72. What does Ambedkar say about Buddhism?

73. Name the book on Buddhism written by Ambedkar?

Book 4

74. How is digna made?

75. Who is Durga? Why her village is called Dhooti jungle?

76. What is Durga’s daily routine?

77. How do the villagers collect the various kinds of coloured matti for digna?

78. How do the artists paint their pictures?(5mks)…follow pg97

79. Who established the Pardhan Gond art movement?

80. What is the name of Jangarh jija’s wife?