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WorksheetsWomen caste and reforms
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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?
(a)
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
