Question
Answer the following about the outsize role of onions in Indian politics, for 10 points each.
[10e] Inflated onion prices fell after this Congress Party leader’s landslide victory in 1980’s “onion election.” India’s Green Revolution began in the wheat belt of Punjab, where this leader attacked the Golden Temple.
ANSWER: Indira Gandhi [or Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi or Indira Priyadarshini Nehru; prompt on Gandhi or Nehru]
[10h] The agrarian populist Sharad Joshi modeled his Shetkari Sanghatana on this party after rallying Maharashtra’s farmers to demand higher onion and sugar prices in Nashik. Rajaji founded this classical liberal party.
ANSWER: Swatantra Party [accept Swatantra Bharat Paksh; prompt on SBP by asking “what does that stand for?”]
[10m] This city investigated the “onion cartel” after 2010’s “onion crisis.” Onion prices fueled the BJP’s historic 1998 defeat in this stronghold of the AAP’s “mango people,” where Jamia Millia Islamia students protested Citizenship Act amendments.
ANSWER: Delhi [or Dillī; accept New Delhi or Naī Dillī; accept National Capital Territory, NCT, National Capital Territory of Delhi, or Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī] (The AAP is the Aam Admi Party.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Claremont Colleges | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Indiana | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |