UNIT 4 Chapter 8 Socio-Religious Reform Movements and previous years Questions

1. Consider the following Statement regarding chronology of social movement?

1. Radhaswami Movement
2. Taayuuni Movement
3. Paramhans Mandali
4. Dharma Sabha

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2. Who amongst the following Englishmen first translated Bhagavad-Gita into English? (upsc /IAS 2001)

3. Karl Marx explained the process of class struggle with the help of which one of the following theories? (upsc /IAS 2011)

4. match the correct pairs

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5. Consider the following statements(UPSC /IAS 2005)

1) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar founded the Bethune School at Calcutta with the main aim of encouraging education for women.

2) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was the first graduate of the Calcutta University.

3) Keshav Chandra Sen’s campaign against Sati led to the enactment of a law to ban Sati by the then Governor General.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

6. Match the correct pairs

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7. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Brahmo Samaj?(upsc /IAS2012)

1. It opposed idolatry
2. It denied the need for a priestly class for interpreting the religious texts.

3. It popularized the doctrine that the Vedas are infallible

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8. Match the correct pairs

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9. consider the following statement regarding which movement / organization founded out of India ?

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10. consider the following statement regarding which movement / organization founded out of India ?

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11. Consider the following Statement regarding chronology of social movement?

1. Radhaswami Movement
2. Taayuuni Movement;.
3. Paramhans Mandali
4. Dharma Sabha

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12. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. Raja Rammohan Roy firmly believed in the principle of causality linking the whole phenomenal universe and demonstrability as the sole criterion of truth.
2. Akshay Kumar Dutt, brought medical opinion to support his views against child marriage.
3. moral values are ultimately those values which favour human progress.
4. the revivalist movements like the Prarthana Samaj, the Aligarh Movement.

  Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

13. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. Raja Rammohan Roy defended the basic and universal principles of all religions .
2. Raja Rammohan Roy attacking the polytheism of Hinduism and trinitarianism of Christianity.
3. Polygamy was prevalent among Hindus as well as Muslims.
4. The reformist as well as the revivalist movement depended, to varying degrees, on an appeal to the lost purity of the religion they sought to reform.

  Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

14. Consider the following Statement regarding social movement?

1. Vidyasagar cited Vedic texts to prove that the Hindu religion sanctioned Widow remarriage .
2. Vishnu Shastri Pandit founded the Widow Remarriage Association in the 1850s.
3. Karsondas Mulji who started the Satya Prakash in Gujarati in 1852 to advocate widow remarriage.
4. Jagannath Shankar Seth and Bhau Daji were among the active promoters of girls’ schools in Maharashtra.

  Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

15. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. The Bethune School, founded by J.E.D.
2. The Indian Women’s University set up by Professor D.K. Karve in 1916.
3. Charles Wood’s Despatch on Education (1854) laid great stress on the need for female education.

  Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

16. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. Sarojini Naidu convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad.
2. Pandita Ramabai Saraswati founded the Arya Mahila Samaj to serve the cause of women.
3. Ramabai Ranade established a branch of Arya Mahila Samaj in Bombay.

  Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

17. Consider the following Statement regarding chronology of social movement.

1. Prarthana Samaj
2. Indian Reform Association
3. Arya Samaj
4. Deccan Education Society

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18. match the correct pairs

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19. match the correct pairs

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20. “Lectures from Colombo to Almora” is based on the experiences of which one of the following? (UPSC /IAS 2006)

21. match the correct pairs

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22. Who among the following started the newspaper Shome Prakash? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

23. match the correct pairs

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24. Who among the following wrote the book Bahubivah? (UPSC /IAS 2007)

25. match the correct pairs

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26. match the correct pairs

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27. Consider the following statement: (UPSC /IAS2001)

1) Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.

2) Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the appeal of Arya Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of

its social reform programmes.

3) Under Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj campaigned for women’s education.

4) Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj to work among refugees.

Which of these statements are correct?

28. Consider the following Statement regarding chronology of social movement ?

1. Seva Samiti; Allahabad
2. Bharat Stri Mandal; Calcutta
3. Social Service League
4. the Indian Women’s Association;

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29. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer (UPSC /IAS1999)

List I List II

30. Consider the following Statement regarding social movement .

1. In Maharashtra, Jyotiba Phule, born in a low caste Mali family.
2. Babasaheb Ambedkar organized the All India Scheduled Castes Federation.
3. Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha in March 1927.
4. Dr Ambedkar established the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha in 1924.

  Which of the statements given above is/are incorrect?

31. Consider the following pairs: Movement/ Organization Leader (UPSC /IAS 2016)

1) All India Anti- Untouchability League  Mahatma Gandhi

2) All India Kisan Sabha Swami Sahajanand Saraswati

3) Self-Respect Movement E.V. Ramaswami Naicker

Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?

32. Which among the following events happened earliest? (UPSC /IAS 2018)

33. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. Dr Ambedkar established the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha in 1924.
2. Babasaheb Ambedkar organized the All India Scheduled Castes Federation.
3. Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha in March 1927.

  Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

34. He wrote biographies of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Shivaji and Shrikrishna; stayed in America for some time; and was also

elected to the Central Assembly. He was (UPSC /IAS 2018)

35. Consider the following Statement .

I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people’s houses as an Interloper, a beggar or a slave.

Who said this?

Choose the incorrect answer

36. Satya ShodhakSamaj organized  (upsc /IAS 2016)

37. Who among the following were the founders of the “Hind Mazdoor Sabha”

established in 1948? (UPSC /IAS 2018)

38. Consider the following Statement regarding chronology?

1. Age of Consent Act,
2. Sarda Act,
3. Maternity Benefits Act,
4. Equal Remuneration Act,

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39. Consider the following statements: (upsc /IAS 2014)

1. Bijak’ is a composition of the teachings of Saint DaduDayal.
2. The Philosophy of Pushti Marg was propounded by Madhvacharya.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

40. Consider the following Statement .

The rising middle classes were politically inclined and were not So much in search of a religion; but they wanted some cultural Roots to cling on to…that would reduce the sense of frustration And humiliation that foreign conquest and rule had produced..

Who said this?

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41. Which one of the following pairs does not form part of the six systems of Indian Philosophy? (upsc /IAS 2014)

42. With reference to social movement , consider the following statements:

1. Abolition of Sati Influenced and launched by the enlightened Indian reformers led by Raja Rammohan Roy.
2. the government declared the practice of sati illegal and punishable. Under The regulation of 1829.
3. originally the regulation of 1829 was applicable for Bengal, Madras and Bombay Presidencies.
4. the Brahmo Samaj had the issue of widow remarriage high on its agenda.

  Which of the statements given above is/are correct?