Socio-religious reform - women position

Question 1

Abolition of Sati

Answer 1

Raja Rammohan Roy (1829 - Bengal presidency; 1830 - Bombay & Madras)

Question 2

Prevention of Female Infanticide

Answer 2

1870 - made it compulsory for parents to register birth

Question 3

Widow remarriage

Answer 3

Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (principal of Sanskrit college, Calcutta) - Hindu Widows Remarriage Act 1856.
He was also pioneer of women’s education.

Question 4

Widow remarriage association

Answer 4

Vishnu Shastri Pandit - 1850s

Question 5

Satya Prakash

Answer 5

Gujarat daily (since 1852) by Karsondas Mulji to advocate widow remarriage

Question 6

Widows home in Poona

Answer 6

D.K Karve. Himself married a widow. Also served as secretary of Widow remarriage association

Question 7

Child marriage

Answer 7

Relentless efforts of Parsi reformer B.M Malabari - Age of Consent act (1891) forbade marriage of girls below 12; 
Sarada act (1930) - boys (18) girls (14); 
Child marriage restraint amendment act (1978) - boys (21) girls (18)

Question 8

Calcutta female juvenile society

Answer 8

Setup in 1819 by Christian missionaries for women’s education

Question 9

Bethune school

Answer 9

1849 - by JED Bethune - first fruit of powerful movement for women’s education

Question 10

Indian women’s university

Answer 10

Prof. D.K Karve in 1916

Question 11

Lady Hardinge Medical college

Answer 11

1916

Question 12

Sarojini Naidu became prez of INC in

Answer 12

1925; later governor of United provinces in 1947

Question 13

Bharat Stree Mahamandal

Answer 13

1910 - Sarla Devi Chaudhurani - first major Indian women’s organisation setup by women. She believed that man working for women’s upliftment lived under shade of Manu.

Question 14

Ladies Social conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad)

Answer 14

1904 - Ramabai Ranade -> under parent organisation National Social Conference

Question 15

Arya Mahila Samaj

Answer 15

Pandita Ramabai Saraswati in 1882. She pleaded for improvement in educational syllabus for Indian women before Queen Victoria - resulted in medical education for women in Lady Duffering College.
Ramabai Ranade est branch of AMS in Bombay

Question 16

National Council of Women in India

Answer 16

1925 (Bombay) - Mehribai Tata; Cornelia Sarabji (India’s first lady barrister)

Branch of international council of women. Council was elitist - failed to generate mass appeal.

Question 17

All India Women’s Conference

Answer 17

1927 (Delhi) - Margaret Cousins, Sarojini Naidu - followed egalitarian approach
Worked towards legislative reforms like Sarada act (1929); Hindu marriage act (1954); Dowry Prohibition act (1961).

Question 18

Women’s India Association

Answer 18

1917 (Madras) - Annie Besant, Sarojini Naidu, etc.