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Q.1 What were women who burned themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre called?

Answer:- Sati

Q.2 What caste did traders and moneylenders belong to?

Answer:- Vaishyas

Q.3 What was the lowest caste group referred to as?

Answer:- Untouchables

Q.4 Which association did Raja Rammohun Roy establish?

Answer:- Brahmo Samaj

Q.5 What was the original name of the Brahmo Samaj?

Answer:- Brahmo Sabha

Q.6 What social group considered itself the “upper caste”?

Answer:- Brahmans

Q.7 Which social class included artisans like weavers and potters?

Answer:- Shudras

Q.8 What did people fear educated women would become?

Answer:- Widows

Q.9 Who was keen to spread Western education in India?

Answer:- Rammohun

Q.10 What practice did Rammohun Roy campaign against?

Answer:- Sati

Q.11 In which year was sati banned?

Answer:- 1829

Q.12 Which reformer used ancient texts to support widow remarriage?

Answer:- Vidyasagar

Q.13 Who founded the Arya Samaj in 1875?

Answer:- Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Q.14 Who is known as ”The Father of the renaissance movement in Telugu”?

Answer:- Veerasalingam Pantulu

Q.15 Who formed an association for widow remarriage in telugu speaking region?

Answer:- Veerasalingam Pantulu

Q.16 Which year marked the founding of Arya Samaj?

Answer:- 1875

Q.17 Who set up schools for girls in Calcutta?

Answer:- Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar

Q.18 Who was secretly learning to read and write in the flickering light of candles?

Answer:- Rashsundari Debi

Q.19 Which organization set up schools for girls in Punjab in the late 19th century?

Answer:- Arya Samaj

Q.20 Who set up first school for girls in Maharashtra?

Answer:- Jyotirao Phule

Q.21 What did women in aristocratic Muslim households in North India learn to read?

Answer:- Quran or Koran

Q.22 Who reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for women’s education?

Answer:- Mumtaz Ali

Q.23 Where did Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain start schools for Muslim girls?

Answer:- Patna and Calcutta

Q.24 In which decade did Indian women begin to enter universities?

Answer:- 1880s

Q.25 Who wrote the book “Stripurushtulna” (Comparison between Women and Men)?

Answer:- Tarabai Shinde

Q.26 Who was a great scholar of Sanskrit and founded a widows’ home in Poona?

Answer:- Pandita Ramabai

Q.27 Which law was passed in 1929 to prevent child marriage?

Answer:- Child Marriage Restraint Act

Q.28 Which organization worked for the abolition of caste and adhered to the tradition of Bhakti?

Answer:- Prarthana Samaj

Q.29 Where was the Paramhans Mandali founded to fight caste inequalities?

Answer:- Bombay

Q.30 Who began setting up schools for tribal and lower-caste children in the nineteenth century?

Answer:- Christian missionaries

Q.31 Which caste group benefited from the First World War demand for army shoes?

Answer:- Leather worker community

Q.32 Which regiment provided jobs to Mahar people, who were traditionally regarded as untouchable?

Answer:- Mahar Regiment

Q.33 Who was the father of B.R. Ambedkar, the prominent leader of the Dalit movement?

Answer:- Ramji Maloji Sakpal (Army school teacher)

Q.34 Which country did some poor people from India migrate to for work in plantations?

Answer:- Mauritius

Q.35 Who were experts in shoe-making and leather work in 19th-century Andhra Pradesh?

Answer:- Madigas

Q.36 Who founded the Satnami movement in Central India?

Answer:- Ghasidas

Q.37 Which movement worked to improve the social status of leatherworkers?

Answer:- Satnami Movement

Q.38 Which group did the Dublas of Gujarat work for?

Answer:- Upper-caste landowners

Q.39 In which region did the Matua sect work among Chandala cultivators?

Answer:- Bengal

Q.40 Which caste did Shri Narayana Guru belong to?

Answer:- Ezhava

Q.41 Which of Shri Narayana Guru’s famous statements promotes unity?

Answer:- “oru jati, oru matam, oru daivam manushyanu”

Q.42 Who founded the Satyashodhak Samaj?

Answer:- Jyotiba Phule

Q.43 In which year did Ambedkar start his first temple entry movement?

Answer:- 1927

Q.44 Which caste was Ambedkar born into?

Answer:- Mahar

Q.45 Who criticized Brahmans for hiding “the sword of their religion”?

Answer:- Phule

Q.46 Which American event inspired Phule to write Gulamgiri?

Answer:- Civil War

Q.47 Which caste reformer led the temple entry movement in South India?

Answer:- E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker

Q.48 Who led the temple entry movements between 1927 and 1935?

Answer:- B.R. Ambedkar

Q.49 Who founded the Self Respect Movement?

Answer:- E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (Periyar)

Q.50 According to Periyar, which culture did the untouchables uphold?

Answer:- Dravidian culture

Q.51 Which ancient lawgiver’s texts were criticized by Periyar?

Answer:- Manu

Q.52 According to Ambedkar, what two principles should Hindu society be reorganized on?

Answer:- Equality and absence of casteism

Q.53 What scripture did Periyar criticize along with the Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana?

Answer:- Manusmriti

Q.54 What did the Brahmo Samaj prohibit?

Answer:- Idolatry

Q.55 Who led the Young Bengal Movement?

Answer:- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Q.56 What was the original name of Swami Vivekananda?

Answer:- Narendra nath Dutta

Q.57 Where was the Veda Samaj founded?

Answer:- Madras

Q.58 Which global city hosted the World Parliament of Religions in 1893?

Answer:- Chicago

Q.59 What philosophy did Swami Vivekananda promote globally?

Answer:- Vedanta

Q.60 Which society inspired the Veda Samaj?

Answer:- Brahmo

Q.61 What was Keshub Chunder Sen associated with?

Answer:- Brahmo

Q.62 Who founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College?

Answer:- Sayyid Ahmed Khan

Q.63 What is the present name of the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875?

Answer:- Aligarh Muslim University

Q.64 In which city was the first Singh Sabha formed in 1873?

Answer:- Amritsar

Q.65 What movement promoted Sikh education and rid Sikhism of superstitions?

Answer:- Singh Sabha Movement

Q.66 When was Khalsa College established?

Answer:- 1892

Q.67 Who wrote the book Gulamgiri?

Answer:- Jyotiba Phule

Q.68 Who made the statement, “We feel how foolish it is to send missionaries to this learned nation”?

Answer:- Swami Vivekananda

Q.69 What was the main focus of the Ramakrishna Mission?

Answer:- Salvation through social service and selfless action

Q.70 What was the main objective of the Sanatan Dharma Sabhas?

Answer:- Upholding caste distinctions

Note: These questions with answers have been prepared with the help of information given in the NCERT book.