Women, Caste and Reform
1. What social ideas did the following people support.
Rammohun Roy
Dayanand Saraswati
Veerasalingam Pantulu
JyotiRao Phule
Pandita Ramabia
Periyar
Mumataz Ali
Ishwwarchandra Vidyanagar
2.State whether true or false:
(a) When the British captured Bengal they framed many new laws to regulate the rules regarding marriage, adoption, inheritance of property, etc.
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(b) Social reformers had to discard the ancient texts in order to argue for reform in social practices.
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(c) Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country.
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(d) the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in 1829.
3. How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?
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4. What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school?
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5. Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so, for what reasons?
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6. In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came form castes that were regarded as "low"?
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7. How did Jyotirao the reformers justify their criticism of caste inequality in society?
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8. Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves?
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9. What did Ambedkar went to achieve through the temple entry movement?
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10. Why were Jyoti rao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?
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Bikash Bora
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