Who among the following started the newspaper "Shome Prakash"?
- (a)Dayanand Saraswati
- (b)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- (c)Raja Rammohun Roy
- (d)Surendranath Banerjee
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Official answer(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Other questions on Social & Religious Reform Movements
Consider the following statements about Raja Ram Mohan Roy : I. He possessed great love and respect for the traditional philosophical systems of the East. II. He desired his countrymen to accept the rational and scientific approach and the principle of human dignity and social equality of all men and women. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
- (a)I only
- (b)II only
- (c)Both I and II
- (d)Neither I nor II
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Official answer(c) Both I and II
Who provided legal defence to the people arrested in the aftermath of Chauri Chaura incident?
- (a)C. R. Das
- (b)Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant
- (c)Dr. Saifuddin Kitchlew and Khwaja Hasan Nizami
- (d)M. A. Jinnah
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Official answer(b) Madan Mohan Malaviya and Krishna Kant
Who among the following was the founder of the ‘Self-Respect Movement’?
- (a)‘Periyar’ E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker
- (b)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- (c)Bhaskarrao Jadhav
- (d)Dinkarrao Javalkar
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Official answer(a) ‘Periyar’ E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker
Who among the following was associated as Secretary with Hindu Female School which later came to be known as Bethune Female School?
- (a)Annie Besant
- (b)Debendranath Tagore
- (c)Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- (d)Sarojini Naidu
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Official answer(c) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
The Vital-Vidhvansak, the first monthly journal to have the untouchable people as its target audience was published by
- (a)Gopal Baba Walangkar
- (b)Jyotiba Phule
- (c)Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- (d)Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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Official answer(a) Gopal Baba Walangkar
In the context of Indian history, the Rakhmabai case of 1884 revolved around 1. women’s right to gain education 2. age of consent 3. restitution of conjugal rights Select the correct answer using the code given below :
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)1 and 3 only
- (d)1, 2 and 3
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Official answer(b) 2 and 3 only