1. Raja Rammohan Roy described sati as "a murder according to every" what?
2. The practice under which, in Bengal, even old men took very young girls as wives was known as what?
3. According to Akshay Kumar Dutt, what was declared to be "our only preceptor"?
4. Which reformer brought medical opinion to support his views against child marriage?
5. Raja Rammohan Roy considered different religions as national embodiments of what?
6. Syed Ahmed Khan held that all prophets shared the same what, though every country and nation had different prophets?
7. Consider the following statements regarding the reform movements' ideological unity:
(I) Rationalism, religious universalism, and humanism gave the movements ideological unity
(II) In the Brahmo Samaj, the infallibility of the Vedas was repudiated
(III) The Aligarh movement rejected any reconciliation of Islamic teachings with modern needs
Which of the above is/are correct?
8. Which reform movements are classified as "reformist," relying more on reason and conscience?
9. According to Swami Vivekananda, religion must justify itself on the basis of which method?
10. Regulation XVII of the Bengal Code, which declared sati illegal and punishable as culpable homicide, was passed in which year?
11. The Bengal Regulation banning sati, applicable first to Bengal Presidency, was extended to Madras and Bombay Presidencies in which year?
12. Consider the following statements regarding legislation against female infanticide:
(I) The Bengal regulations of 1795 and 1804 declared infanticide illegal and equivalent to murder
(II) An Act passed in 1870 made it compulsory to register the birth of all babies
(III) Female infanticide was mainly practised among lower class communities in South India
Which of the above is/are correct?
13. Whose efforts were mainly responsible for the passage of the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856?
14. Who founded the Widow Remarriage Association in the 1850s?
15. Karsondas Mulji started which Gujarati publication in 1852 to advocate widow remarriage?
16. Which reformer, who married a widow himself in 1893, opened a widows' home in Poona?
17. Which reformer promoted widow remarriage specifically in Madras?
18. The Native Marriage Act (or Civil Marriage Act), which took legislative action against child marriage but had limited impact, was passed in which year?
19. Whose relentless efforts led to the enactment of the Age of Consent Act, 1891, forbidding marriage of girls below 12?
20. The Sarda Act (1930) pushed up the marriage age to 18 and 14 for boys and girls respectively — which Act later raised these ages further in free India?
21. Which organisation set up the Calcutta Female Juvenile Society in 1819, marking an early effort in women's education?
22. The Bethune School, considered the first fruit of the movement for women's education, was founded by whom in Calcutta in 1849?
23. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was associated with how many girls' schools in Bengal?
24. Which despatch, issued in 1854, laid great stress on the need for female education?
25. The Indian Women's University, one of the outstanding institutions for women's education, was set up by whom in 1916?
26. Lady Hardinge Medical College was opened in Delhi in which year?
27. Dufferin Hospitals, which began providing health facilities to women, were opened in which decade?
28. Sarojini Naidu became president of the Indian National Congress in which year?
29. Sarla Devi Chaudhurani convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal, considered the first major Indian women's organisation set up by a woman, in which city and year?
30. Sarla Devi believed that a man working for women's upliftment lived "under the shade of" whom?
31. Ramabai Ranade founded the Ladies Social Conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad) in Bombay in which year?
32. Who founded the Arya Mahila Samaj to serve the cause of women?
33. The National Council of Women in India, a national branch of the International Council of Women, was formed in which year?
34. Who was India's first lady barrister and held an important position on the executive committee of the National Council of Women in India?
35. The All India Women's Conference (AIWC), regarded as the first women's organisation with an egalitarian approach, was founded by whom in 1927?
36. The first conference of the AIWC was held at which institution?
37. Consider the following statements regarding factors that undermined caste-based discrimination under British rule:
(I) Creation of private property in land and free sale of land upset caste equations
(II) The judicial functions of caste panchayats were taken away
(III) The British administration deliberately reinforced the link between caste and vocation
Which of the above is/are correct?
38. Jyotiba Phule, who led a movement against brahminical domination in Maharashtra, belonged to which caste background?
39. Which organisation did Ambedkar establish, while other leaders of the depressed classes founded the All India Depressed Classes Association?
40. The struggle of the depressed classes led to a provision for their special representation in which Act?
41. Which leader of the Self-Respect Movement organised non-brahmins in South India during the 1920s?
42. Sri Narayana Guru's slogan "one religion, one caste, one God for mankind" was changed by his disciple Sahadaran Ayyapan into what?
43. Dr Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha to a tank from which untouchables were barred from drawing water. What was this tank called?
44. Dr Ambedkar established the Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha in which year, with the motto "Educate, Agitate and Organise"?
45. In 1932, Gandhi founded which organisation with the objective of eradicating untouchability?
46. Who made the remark, "Unfortunately, no brahmin scholar has so far come forward to play the part of a Voltaire," criticising the absence of internal reformist dissent among brahmins?
47. Who observed that "the dead and the buried are dead, buried and burnt once for all and the dead past cannot, therefore, be revived except by a reformation of the old materials into new organised forms"?
