Women caste and reforms

Around two hundred years ago, Indian society was not as it is now. It imposed many barriers on women; they could not go to school, neither marry according to their will. Widows were praised if they chose to die by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands. What was that practice known as?

• Sati pratha

• Savitri pratha

• Gayatri pratha

• Saraswati pratha

The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in …………………..

• 1829

• 1832

• 1854

• 1823

The prime advocate of widow remarriage was

• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

• Jyotirao Phule

• Periyar

• Pandita Ramabai

Widow Remarriage Act was passed in the year

• 1826

• 1856

• 1876

• 1886

who founded the arya samaj

• ishwar chandra vidyasagar

• swami dayanand saraswati

• sayid ahmad khan

• periyar

Raja Ramohan founded

• arya samaj

• prarthana samaj

• bramho samaj

• none of these

a popular festival in which devotees underwent a peculiar form of suffering as part of ritual worship. With hooks pierced through their skin they swung themselves on a wheel. Which festival is this?

where did begum rokeya sakhawat hussain started schools for muslim girls

• calcutta

• patna

• both a and b

• none of these

Stripurushtulana was written by _____.

• Begum Rokya Shakhawat Hussain

• Ramabai Ranade

• Tarabai Shinde

• Begum Kausar Bi

By the second half of the 19th century, the movement in favour of widow remarriage spread to other parts of India beyond Bengal. Which reformer formed an association for widow remarriage in the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency?

• Veerasalingam Pantulu

• Aademma Pantulu

• Baalaaditya Pantulu

• Phlalgunaraav Pantulu