Women Caste And Reforms

Question 1

What did Raha Rammohan Roy find

Answer 1

Bramho Samaj

Question 2

When did Raha Rammohan Roy found Bramho Samaj

Answer 2

1828

Question 3

Raja Ram Mohan Roy spread the knowledge of?

Answer 3

Western education

Question 4

Raja Ram Mohan Roy compaigned against?

Answer 4

Sati

Question 5

What efforts did Raja Ram Mohan Roy do to ban sati?

Answer 5

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a linguist, through his writings he tried to show that Sati had no sanction in ancient texts.

Question 6

When was the practice of Sati banned?

Answer 6

1829

Question 7

What did Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar do?

Answer 7

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar used ancient text to suggest that widows could remarry.

Question 8

When was law permitted that widows could remarry?

Answer 8

1856

Question 9

Who formed and association for widow remarriage in telugu speaking areas

Answer 9

Veerasalingam Pantulu

Question 10

Who found the Arya Samaj

Answer 10

Dayanand Saraswati

Question 11

What did Dayanand Saraswati reform

Answer 11

Hinduism

Question 12

Schools for girls for established by whom in Punjab and in Maharashtra

Answer 12

Arya Samaj in Punjab and Jyoti Rao Phule in Maharashtra

Question 13

Which reformer reinterpreted versus from Quran to argue for women’s education

Answer 13

Mumtaz Ali

Question 14

Who found a Primary School for Girls at Aligarh

Answer 14

Begums of Bhopal

Question 15

Who started school for Muslim girls at Patna and Kolkata

Answer 15

Begum rokaya shakhawat Hussain

Question 16

Who wrote the book Shri Purush tulna

Answer 16

Tarabai Shinde

Question 17

Who wrote a book about miserable lives of upper caste Hindu woman

Answer 17

Pandita Ramabai

Question 18

How did Pandita Ramabai help a widow in poona

Answer 18

She found a widows home at Pune to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husbands relatives

Question 19

Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose helped the women by

Answer 19

Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose lent support to demands for Greater equality and freedom of women

Question 20

When was the child marriage restrained act passed

Answer 20

1929

Question 21

What was child marriage restraint act

Answer 21

According to this no men below the age of 18 and women below the age of 16 could marry

Question 22

What did Raja Ram Mohan Roy translate

Answer 22

Raja Ram Mohan Roy translated and old Buddhist text that was critical of caste

Question 23

What did Prathna Samaj do

Answer 23

Prathna Samaj adered to the tradition of Bhakti spiritual equality of all cast

Question 24

Paramhans mandali was found in

Answer 24

1840

Question 25

What did paramhans mandali work for

Answer 25

Paramhans mandali work for abolition of caste