Chapter 8  Women, Caste and Reform

1. Consider the following statement about the
author of Gulamgiri, who dedicates his book to the
American slave-free cause.

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2. Match the following.

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3. Take a look at the following remark about sequence.

1. Brahmo Samaj formed .
2. World Parliament of Religions at Chicago .
3. The Prarthana Samaj Established .
4. The Veda Samaj Established.

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4. match the correct pairs.

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5. Consider the following statement on the social
movement.

1. Raja Rammohan Roy defended all religions’ essential
   and universal values.
2. Raja Rammohan Roy criticises Hinduism’s polytheism
   and Christianity’s trinitarianism.
3. Polygamy was common among Hindus and Muslims alike.
4. Both the reformist and revivalist movements relied,
   to differing degrees, on an appeal to the religion’s lost purity in order to reform it.

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6. Consider the following statement about the
social movement’s timeline.

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

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7. Take a look at the following statement about
Nayanars and Alvars saints.

1. Rammohun Roy was a strong proponent of Western
   education in India.
2. Rammohun Roy fought for women’s rights to freedom
   and equality.
3. In Calcutta, Rammohun Roy created the Brahmo Sabha,
   a reform organisation.

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8. Match the correct pairs.

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9. Consider the statement below.

1. Swami Dayanand Saraswati was a proponent
   of widow remarriage.
2. In Calcutta, Vidyasagar created the Arya
   Samaj, a reform organisation.
3. Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar used old writings
   to refute the widows’ system and suggested that widows
   could remarry.

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10. Consider the following claim about the author

of the book Stripurushtulna.

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11. Consider the statement below.

1. The Paramhans Mandali was created in 1840 with
   the goal of abolishing caste.
2. Prarthana Samaj followed the Bhakti tradition,
   which held that all castes are spiritually equal.

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12. Take a look at the following statement.

1. Shri Narayana Guru, for his people, declared
   the ideals of togetherness.
2. In 1873, Jyotirao Phule published Gulamgiri,
   a book dedicated to the lowest castes.
3. Ghasidas launched the Satnami movement in
   Central India.

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13. Match the correct pairs.

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14. Take a look at the following remark on the
Brahmo Samaj.

1. The Brahmo Samaj examined religious
   ideals critically.
2. Keshub Chunder Sen, one of the Brahmo Samaj’s
   most powerful leaders.
3. The Brahmo Samaj rejected all forms of worship
   in favour of the Upanishads.

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15. Match the following.

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