WOMEN CASTE AND REFORM Class VIII History

Q1. Painted by a European artist who came to India , this was one of the many pictures of a religious practice, a social evil that existed in ancient India. Identify the name of the practice .

Sati Child Marriage Female infanticide Untouchability

Q2. Name the uppermost caste in the social ladder that existed in ancient India .

Brahmans Shudras Vaishyas Kshatriyas

Q3. Among the following, which class belonged to the traders and money lenders

Brahmans Vaishyas Shudras Vaishyas

Q4. Name the class that belonged to the lower most strata in the social ladder of ancient India

Kshatriyas Brahmans Vaishyas Shudras

Q5. With respect to ancient India, a list of statements related to the untouchables are given below. Point out the one that is not TRUE.

They were not allowed to enter temples

They were not allowed to bathe in ponds where the upper caste bathed

They were not considered as inferior human beings

They were not allowed to draw water from the wells used by the upper castes

Q6. An image of a popular reformer who founded a reform association Brahmo Samaj is given below. Name this personality.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy Ramakrishna Paramhamsa

Gopal Krishna Gokhale Madan Mohan Malaviya

Q7. Monotheism means :

Belief in many gods Belief in one god Child Marriage Widow remarriage

Q8. Few important points with respect to Raja Ram Mohan Roy are given below. Select the one that is NOT TRUE.

Rajaram Mohan Roy encouraged the study of local languages and wanted to abolish Western education.

He tried to show through his writings that the practice of widow burning had no sanction in ancient texts.

Rabindranath Tagore called him as the Father of Indian Renaissance

Through Brahmo Samaj he attempted to reform Hindu society

Q9.Who has been referred as the Prophet of Indian Nationalism?

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Dadabai Naoroji

Keshab Chandra sen Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q10. Under which Governor General did Raja Ram Mohan Roy initiate to ban Sati?

Lord Dalhousie Lord Mountbatten William Bentick Lord Ripon

Q11. In the Telugu speaking areas of the Madras Presidency an association was formed for widow remarriage. Name the personality behind this, who is also called the Vidyasagar of the south.

Veerasalingam Pantulu Dadabai Naoroji

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Ishwara Chandra Vidyasagar

Q12. Name the person who founded the Theosophical Society in India .

Sarojini Naidu Rama Bai Ranade Annie Besant Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q13. Considered as the Grand Old Man of India, he is one of the co-founders of the Indian National Congress, he also fought for the legal rights of women

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Veerasalingam

Dadabai Naoroji Ishwar Chandra Vidya sagar

Q14.Name the social reformer who worked for the upliftment of women in Maharashtra

Jyotirao Phule Annie Besant Rama Bai Ranade Syed Ahmed Khan

Q15. Name the personality, from the list given below, who secretly learned to read and write in the flickering light of candles at night.

Rashsundari Debi Rama Bai Ranade

Annie Besant Sarojini Naidu

Q16. In which language women of the aristocratic Muslim households of North India learnt to read and write the Koran?

Persian English Arabic Hindi

Q17. Who was the important reformer who reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for women’s

education ?

Sarojini Naidu Annie Besant Rashsundari Debi Mumtaz Ali

Q18. Who from Bhopal, from the early 20th century, played a notable role in promoting education among women and founded a primary school for girls

Tribals of Bhopal Begums of Bhopal

Government of Bhopal British Resident

Q19. Where did the first primary school for girls start at?

Kanpur Lucknow Bhopal Aligarh

Q20. Name the important women personality who wrote and published a book Stripurushtulna , criticising the social differences between men and women

Sarojini Naidu Tarabai Shinde Rama Bai Ranade Mumtaz Ali

Q21. Identify this personality who was a great scholar in Sanskrit. She also founded a widow’s home at Poona to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husband’s relatives

Tarabai Shinde Annie Besant Rashsundari Debi Pandita Ramabai

Q22. Who translated an old Buddhist text that was critical of caste.

Pandita Ramabai Tarabai Shinde Jyotirao Phule Raj Ram Mohan Roy

Q23. Which of the following adhered to the tradition of Bhakti that believed in spiritual equality of all castes?

Arya Samaj Brahmo Samaj . Prarthana Samaj Theosophical Society

Q24. Which one among the following was founded in 1840 to work for the abolition of caste?

Brahmo Samaj Prarthana Samaj Paramhans Mandali Arya Samaj

Q25. From the following list of options, during the course of the 19th century who started setting up schools for tribal groups and lower caste children so that these children were equipped with some resources to make their way into a changing world?

Christian missionaries Arya Samaj Prarthana Samaj Paramhans Mandali

Q26. Name this important untouchable caste of Andhra Pradesh. These experts made shoes.

Madigas Mala Bhangis Khateek

Q27. Who was Ghasidas?

Leader of Madigas, supposedly an untouchable caste from Andhra Pradesh

Leader who revolted when labourers were carried to Mauritius in the coolie ship John Allen

Leader of the Dublas, supposedly a lower caste tribal group from Gujarat

Founder of Satnami movement in central India

Q28. Name the personality who worked among the low castes Chandala cultivators in Eastern Bengal.

Shri Narayana Guru Haridas Thakur Matua

Pandita Ramabai Ghasidas

Q29. Name this great social leader from Kerala who proclaimed the ideas of unity of all people within one sect, a single caste and one guru.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Shri Narayana Guru

Haridas Thakur Matua Ghasidas Q30. Name the author who penned the book Gulamgiri, dedicated to all those Americas who had fought to free slaves

Shri Narayan Guru Ghasidas Jyotirao Phule Haridas Thakur

Q31. Name this prominent Dalit leader from Western India who fought for caste reforms in the 20th century.

Shri Narayana Guru Ramaswamy Naicker Dr B R Ambedkar Jyotirao Phule

Q32. From the image given below identify this great personality from the Southern part of India who fought for caste reforms.

Ramaswamy Naicker Jyotirao Phule Dr B R Ambedkar Shri Narayana Guru

Q33. Why did Dr B R Ambedkar lead three temple entry movements between 1927 and 1935?

Dr Ambedkar wanted to study about these movements

Dr B R Ambedkar felt humiliated when he led the first movement.

Dr B R Ambedkar wanted to make everyone see the power of caste prejudices within society.

Dr Ambedkar himself was from a Dalit

Q35. Inspired by the Brahmo Samaj, in Madras in 1864 another movement worked to abolish caste distinction and promote widow remarriage and women’s education Name this.

Veda Samaj Brahmo Samaj Ramakrishna Mission Prarthana Samaj

Q36. A teacher at the Hindu College, Calcutta in 1820s promoted radical ideas and encouraged his pupils to question all authority. Name the brain behind this Young Bengal Movement.

Gopal Krishna Gokhale Rabindranath Tagore

Raja Ram Mohan Roy Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Q37. Where did the reform organization of the Sikhs formed first in 1873 ?

Amritsar Shimla Chandigarh Ludhiana