Chapter- 1      The Unique Sacrifice


1. What is the name of the lesson?
Answer: The Unique Sacrifice.

2. What does the lesson talk about?
Answer: It talks about the sacrifice of people for protecting nature and their nation.

3. What has our country always been in every walk of life?
Answer: A torch bearer.

4. What is the world trying to do today?
Answer: The world is striving to save nature.

5. What have Indians been doing since ages?
Answer: Worshipping trees.

6. What is the name of the village in the story?
Answer: Khejarli.

7. In which district is Khejarli located?
Answer: Jodhpur district.

8. When did the incident take place?
Answer: September 1737.

9. What was the weather like that day?
Answer: It was warm and sunny.

10. Who was the main character of the story?
Answer: Amrita Devi.

11. What was Amrita Devi doing?
Answer: She was doing her household duties.

12. How many daughters did she have?
Answer: Three daughters.

13. What were the names of her daughters?
Answer: Ashu, Ratni, and Bhagu.

14. What were the daughters doing?
Answer: They were helping their mother at home.

15. Where were the men of the village?
Answer: They were working in the fields.

16. What unusual thing did the family hear?
Answer: An unusual uproar outside.

17. What did Amrita Devi do after hearing the noise?
Answer: She rushed outside.

18. What did she see outside?
Answer: The king’s men and woodcutters.

19. What were the king’s men doing?
Answer: Ordering woodcutters to cut trees.

20. Which trees were being cut?
Answer: Khejari trees.

21. Who was supervising the cutting of trees?
Answer: Girdhari Lal.

22. What was Girdhari Lal’s position?
Answer: He was a Hakim (royal officer).

23. Which community did Amrita Devi belong to?
Answer: Bishnoi community.

24. What do Bishnois worship?
Answer: Trees, especially Khejari trees.

25. Why were Khejari trees important to them?
Answer: They considered them sacred.

26. How did Amrita Devi feel on seeing the trees being cut?
Answer: She was shocked and surprised.

27. What did she want to do?
Answer: She wanted to stop them.

28. Was she able to decide immediately how to stop them?
Answer: No, she did not know how.

29. What does this story teach us?
Answer: It teaches us to protect nature and stand against injustice.

30. Why do people sacrifice their lives for the nation or nature?
Answer: To protect their values, culture, environment, and future generations.

Answer by Dimpee Bora