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Women, Caste and Reform Flashcards

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1
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What is the meaning of Sati?

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Virtuous women

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How were low caste treated?

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Their jobs were considered polluting.
Not allowed to enter temples.
Not allowed to drink water from the same well.
Not allowed to bathe in the same pond.
Treated as untouchables

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3
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Who founded Brahmo Samaj?(Brahmo Sabha)

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Raja Rammohun Roy in 1830 in Calcutta.

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4
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Problems reformed by Raja Rammohun

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Sati

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How did Rammohun Roy used ancients texts to promote his ideas?

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He tried to show his ideas by telling the people about the ancient text and proving it had no connection from their traditions.
Harmful topics like sati were treated like this.
people believed in the texts and supported his ideas.

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6
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When was Sati banned?

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1829

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7
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“We first tie them down to the pile” was used in the support of what?

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The evil practice sati.

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8
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Concerns of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar were

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Widow remarriage

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9
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When was widow remarriage act passed?

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1856

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10
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Who founded Arya Samaj?

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Swami Dayanand Saraswati

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11
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Who supported widow remarriage?

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Arya Samaj
Telegu-speaking areas of Madras presidency, Veerasalingam pantulu.
Young intellectuals
Reformers of Bombay.

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12
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Why were people afraid to send girls to school?

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They feared because:-
They believed it will take them away from their home.
Prevent them from doing domestic chores.
They were required to go outside and they believed it would have a corrupting influence on them.
Some were afraid that women would no longer be in control after learning their rights.
Some believed she would become a widow.

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13
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Who established schools in
Calcutta, Bombay and Punjab

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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Jyotirao Phule
Arya Samaj

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14
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Who reinterpreted Koran for women?

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Mumtaz Ali

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15
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Name some female Muslim reformers and the schools established by them

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Begums of Bengal- primary school for girls in Aligarh.
Begum Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain - schools in Patna and Calcutta

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16
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Name the book written by Tarabai Shinde

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Stripurushtulna

17
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Concerns of Pandita Ramabai

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Lives of upper caste Hindu women

18
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National Leader who supported demands of women

A

Jawaharlal Nehru
Subhas Chandra Bose

19
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When was Child Marriage Restraint act passed?

A

1929

20
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Who adhere to traditions of bhakti?

A

Prathana Samaj

21
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Founder of Paramhans Mandali

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Ramkrishna Paramhans

22
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Lower caste leather workers

A

Madigas of Andhra pradhesh

23
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What new opportunities opened for lower caste people during British Rule?

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They worked in planation farms.
They were carried as laborers to distant lands.
They were offered jobs in the army.
They were provided education through army schools.

24
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Gujarat’s lower caste people

A

Dublas.

25
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Who founded Satnami Movement?

A

Ghasidas

26
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Reformer for the Chandala cultivators

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Haridas Thakur

27
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Thoughts Of Shri Narayan guru

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He was from Kerala and from Ezhava caste.
“;oru mati, oru matam, orum daivam manushyam” One caste, One religion, One god for mankind.

28
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Note on Jyotirao Phule

A

He was a low-caste leader. He was born in 1827. He studied in a missionary school. He attacked the brahmans and called them Aryans. His wife was Savitribai Phule.

29
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Samaj founded by Jyotirao Phule

A

Satyashodhak Samaj

30
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Book written by Jyotirao Phule and why he dedicated it to the American Movement to free slaves?

A

Gulamgiri
Because:-
He wanted to establish a link between lower catse and the black slaves.
He wanted to encourage people to fight.

31
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When was temple entry movement started and by whom?

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1927 by B.R Ambedkar

32
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Non-Brahman movement

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Against Brahmans/ Aryans.

33
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Self-respect Movement

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Started by E.V Ramaswamy Naicker or Periyar. Great critic of Hindi scriptures.

34
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Orthodox Hindu Societies

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Sanatan Dharma Sabha
Bharat Dharma Mahamandal
Brahman Sabha

35
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Sayyid Ahmed Khan founded?

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The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental Collage (The Aligarh university)

36
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The Singh Sabha Movement

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1st Sabha - Amritsar in 1873
2nd Sabha- Lahore in 1879

37
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Some other details

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Derozio and Bengal
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Swami Vivekanand before Narendra Nath Dutta
His teacher Ramkrishna Paramhans
Veda Samaj in Madras in 1864.
Khalsa collage in Amritsar in 1892.

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