Working in groups, investigate the history of the Indian Paralympic and Special Olympics teams. Who have been

4.1.2 — Extension Activity

Q. Working in groups, investigate the history of the Indian Paralympic and Special Olympics teams. Who have been the most successful athletes? Select one and find out more about him/her. Present your findings to the class in the form of a Power Point Presentation.

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Concept understanding — Historical Event Recall

Historical Event Recall

Think about how you remember a story your grandmother told you. You don't remember every word she said — you remember the gist, the key characters, the sequence of what happened, and maybe one or two vivid details that stuck with you. Now imagine you had to tell that same story to someone else a week later. You'd reconstruct it from memory, not read it off a script.

Historical Event Recall is exactly that process, but applied to the past. It is the ability to accurately retrieve and reconstruct a past event from memory — not as a perfect recording, but as a coherent narrative built from the evidence and details you have absorbed.

The everyday intuition

When you hear about a historical event — say, the signing of a treaty or the outbreak of a war — you don't file it away like a photograph. Your brain stores fragments: the date, the key people, the cause, the outcome, and perhaps a striking image or quote. Later, when you need to recall that event, your mind pieces these fragments together into a story. That act of piecing together is recall.

It is not the same as recognition. Recognition is multiple-choice: you see the event name and you know it sounds familiar. Recall is open-ended: you must produce the event's details from scratch, in the right order, with the right emphasis.

The precise meaning in history

In the study of history, Historical Event Recall means retrieving a specific past occurrence with sufficient accuracy and completeness to explain it meaningfully. This includes:

The who — the people, groups, or institutions involved
The what — the nature of the event (a battle, a law, a discovery, a speech)
The when — the chronological placement (year, period, sequence relative to other events)
The where — the geographical or political context
The why — the causes and triggers
The so-what — the consequences and significance

Note

Recall is not about memorising every date and name like a list. It is about holding the event's structure in your mind so you can explain it naturally, the way you would tell a story you truly understand.

Why it matters

History is not a database you query. It is a narrative you carry. When you recall an event well, you can:

Connect it to other events (cause and effect)
Evaluate its importance relative to other developments
Argue about its interpretation (was it inevitable? was it beneficial?)
Write or speak about it without flipping back to notes

In exams, recall is what separates a student who can write a coherent paragraph from one who can only tick boxes. A good recall shows you have internalised the event, not just glanced at it. …

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This activity asks you to connect the chapter's global history of Paralympics/Special Olympics to India's own athletes — research, pick one, and present.

Suggested approach, working in groups:

Research India's participation history at the Paralympic Games and at Special Olympics World Games — which sports India has competed in, and how the medal count has grown over recent editions.
Shortlist a few athletes whose achievements stand out (across para-athletics, para-badminton, para-shooting, para-powerlifting, or Special Olympics Bharat's athletes).
Select ONE athlete as a group and research their specific disability category (section 4.1.1's ten impairment categories are a useful reference), their sporting event, and their major achievements/medals. …

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Same / Similar Concept — real previous-year questions on the same or a closely similar concept, not this exact question.

CBSE 2026Set 75/SRP1Q/41 markMCQ
$Q. Which of the following competition was organised by Guttmann at the 1948 London Olympics for disabled persons ? (A) Running competition (B) Swimming competition (C) Wheelchair competition (D) Bicycle competition$
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Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised the first wheelchair competition for disabled war veterans at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, coinciding with the 1948 London Olympics — the birth of the Paralympic movement.

This question tests knowledge of Paralympic history, specifically the pioneering work that laid the foundation for disability sports as we know them today.

The 1948 London Olympics marked a watershed moment not just for able-bodied athletes returning after World War II, but for disabled athletes as well. Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neurologist working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in England, had been treating World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries. He recognized that sport could be a powerful tool for rehabilitation — both physically and psychologically.

On the opening day of the 1948 London Olympics (July 29), Guttmann organized the first Stoke Mandeville Games at the hospital. This was not part of the official Olympics, but deliberately timed to coincide with it, signaling that disabled athletes deserved the same recognition and competitive spirit.

The event featured 16 injured servicemen and women competing in archery — but crucially, they competed from wheelchairs. This was revolutionary: rather than trying to make disabled people fit into able-bodied sports, Guttmann adapted competition to their abilities, with the wheelchair as an integral part of the athletic equipment. …
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CBSE 2024Set 75/RQPS/41 markMCQ
$Q. International Paralympic Committee was formed in _____. (A) 1985 (B) 2003 (C) 1989 (D) 2001$
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The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) was established in 1989 as the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The answer is (C) 1989.

The International Paralympic Committee serves as the umbrella organization coordinating all Paralympic sports and the Paralympic Games. Understanding when it was formed helps place the modern Paralympic movement in historical context.

Before 1989, Paralympic sports were organized by various international organizations for different disability groups. The need for a unified body became clear as the Paralympic Games grew in scale and complexity. The IPC was created to bring coherence to the movement, establish common standards, and provide centralized governance.

The key milestone came on 22 September 1989 in Düsseldorf, Germany, when representatives from various international disability sports organizations came together to form the IPC. This was shortly after the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games, which had demonstrated both the potential and the organizational challenges of the Paralympic movement. …
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CBSE 2023Set 75/EF1GH/41 markMCQ
$Q. First Deaflympic Games was organized in the year _____.$
(a) 1896
(b) 1960
(c) 1924
(d) 1951
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The first Deaflympic Games were held in 1924 in Paris.

The Deaflympics (originally the International Silent Games) trace back to 1924, when they were first organised in Paris for deaf athletes — making them, notably, older than the Paralympic Games (which began in 1960) and second only to the Olympic Games itself among international multi-sport events for athletes with disabilities. The Games are unique among disability sport in that they use visual …
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