Social Science Question(1 Marks)

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was the founder of the Arya Samaj. He raised his voice in favour of widow remarriage.

Periyar was an outspoken critic of Hindu scriptures, especially the Codes of Manu, the ancient lawgiver, and the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana.

Mumtaz Ali: Supported Wome's Education.

They brought changes in society by persuading people to give up old practices and adopt a new way of life.

According to the Child Marriage Restraint Act passed in 1929, no man below the age of 18 and woman below the age of 16 could marry.

False.

Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya was one of the first institutions to provide girls with the kind of learning that was usual for boys at that time.

It trained them so that they could manage financial support for themselves.

Veerasalingam Pantulu: Supported Widow remarriage.

Traders and moneylenders were known as Vaishyas.

Tarabai Shinde published Stripuru shtulna. It is about the social differences between men afid women.

These missionaries set up schools for tribal groups and lower caste children. Here, they were equipped with some skills to make their way into a new world.

Raja Rammohan Roy was the Indian reformer who founded Bramho Samaj in Calcutta and worked for the emancipation of women. He banned the practice of 'sati'.

Jyotirao Phule: Supported equality among castes.

In this popular festival, devotees underwent a peculiar form of suffering as part of ritual worship. With hooks pierced through their skin they swung themselves on a wheel.

The Satyashodhak Samaj was an association that propagated caste equality. It was founded by Jyotirao Phule.

Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar: Supported Widow remarriage.

Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar was a reformer in Bengal who took forward the cause of remarriage of widows and education of women.

Widows who chose death by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands were known as ‘sati’, meaning virtuous woman.

Social reformers are described so because they felt that some changes were essential in society and unjust practices needed to be rooted out.

Pandita Ramabai: Supported women's Education.

Mumtaz Ali was a social reformer who reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for women’s education.

True.

E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker.

Dayanand Saraswati: Supported Widow remarriage.

They belong to labouring castes.

Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose lent their support to demands for greater equality and freedom for women.

The Satnami movement in Central India was founded by Ghasidas who worked among the leatherworkers and organised a movement to improve their social status.

Leatherworkers have been traditionally held in contempt since they work with dead animals which are seen as dirty and polluting.

They were untouchables.

People such as Rammohun Roy are described as reformers because they felt that changes were necessary in society, and unjust practices needed to be done away with.

Tarabai Shinde was educated at home at Poona. She published a book 'Stripurushtulna' in which she criticised the social differences between men and women.

Rammohun Roy: Supported the banning of the practice of 'Sati'.

They were experts at cleaning hides, tanning them for use and sewing sandals.

False.

Periyar: Supported equality for untouchables.

There was a false notion among the upper-caste that untouchable would pollute the classroom where their children are taught.

The social reformers were important because they felt that some changes were necessary in our society and unjust practices needed to be abolished from the society.

False.

The codes of Manu, the ancient lawgiver and the Bh^gavad Gita and the Ramayana.