Kerala PSC History Question and Answers - 8

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1. Which were the major social reformist movements in India?

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2. Which are the examples of important Revivalist Movements?

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3. In which year the British Government declared the practice of Sati illegal & punishable as cul-pable homicide?

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4. In which year was the Abolition of Sati extended to Madras & Bombay Presidencies?

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5. What was the importance of the Bengal Regulations of 1795 & 1804?

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6. Which social reformer made the efforts for the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856?

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7. Name the social reformer of Western India, who himself married a widow in 1893 & dedicated his life to the upliftment of Hindu Widows?

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8. Who opened a widows' home in Poona?

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9. In which year was the Native Marriage Act passed, which banned the child marriage?

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10. Name the Parsi reformer whose efforts lead to the enactment of the Age of Consent Act in 1891?

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11. Which Act of the British forbade the marriage of girls below the age of 12?

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12. Which Act of 1930 pushed up the marriage age to 18 & 14 for boys & girls respectively?

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13. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, which raised the age of marriage for girls to 18 years & boys to 21 was passed in the year:

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14. Which social reformer is considered as 'the Pioneer of Women's Education in India'?

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15. What is known as 'the Magnacarta of English Education in India'?

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16. Who started the Indian Women's University at Bombay in 1916?

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17. In which year was the All India Women's Conference established?

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18. In which year was the Dowry Prohibition Act passed?

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19. Who founded the All India Harijan Sangh in 1932?

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20. Who organised the All India Scheduled Castes Federation?

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21. Who is known as 'the Father of Indian Renaissance'?

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22. Which was the first reform movement of India of the modern type?

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23. Who wrote 'The Gift to Monotheists' in 1809?

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23. Who set up Atmiya Sabha in Calcutta in 1814 to campaign against idolatry, caste rigidities & social ills ?

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24. 'The Precepts of Jesus' was the work of:

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25. Who founded the Brahmo Sabha (later Brahmo Samaj) in 1828 ?

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26. " In which year Raja Ram Mohan Roy started his anti-Sati struggle?

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27. Which social reform organisation was committed to 'the Worship & adoration of the Eternal, Unsearchable, Immutable Being who is the author & Preserver of the Universe' ?

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28. Raja Ram Mohan Roy died in the year:

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