Cluster · Indian Social Reformers and Reform Movements

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Indian Social Reform Movements and Reformers
Questions
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Questions in this cluster
379 total
Question Category Subtype Difficulty

In which of the following years was the Satya Shodhak Samaj founded ?

[RPF SI 2024]

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Who among the following founded the Widow Re-Marriage Association?

[SSC MTS 2022]

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Who among the following social reformers of British India was known as Lokhitwadi?

[CONSTABLE EXE 2023]

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RG Bhandarkar was a popular leader of which reformed society ?

[SSC CGL 2023]

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Who among the following reformers initially set up a school for girls in Calcutta ?

[SSC MTS 2023]

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Which social reformer founded the 'Brahmo Samaj" in 1828 and became famous for his pioneering role in advocating education and opposing practices like Sati, child marriage and social division?

[RRC GROUP D]

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Who among the following wrote Gulamgiri ?

[SSC CPO 2024]

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Who among the following reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for women’s education ?

[RPF SI 2024]

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Select the correct combination of personality and his/her associated organisation.

[RRC GROUP D]

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Who of the following founded the Atmiya Samaj?

[SSC MTS ]

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________ was founded by Dadoba Pandurang and his brother Atmaram Pandurang in 1867.

[SSC MTS 2022]

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Annie Besant founded the Central Hindu College at Banaras which she later handed over to ________.

[RRC GROUP D]

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The Young Bengal Movement was started by _________, who had come to Calcutta in 1826 and was appointed in the Hindu College as a teacher of English literature and History.

[RRC GROUP D]

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Who suggested the law that the British Government passed in 1856 to support widow remarriage?

[SSC CGL 2024]

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Who among the following established the Arya Samaj and in which year?

[CONSTABLE EXE 2023]

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Who among the following started the Satnami movement for the betterment of leather workers in Central India?

[CONSTABLE EXE 2023]

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Name the Bengali reformer and book writer who supported widow remarriage.

[SSC GD 2022]

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The Ramakrishna Mission stressed the ideal of____________ through social service and of selfless action.

[SSC CGL 2022]

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Who among the following was the pioneer of widow remarriages in Maharashtra and also started a girls' school in Poona along with his wife ?

[SSC CPO 2024]

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Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj organization in 1875 at which of the following places ?

[SSC CHSL 2023]

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Who among the following formed the Tattvabodhini Sabha in 1839?

[SSC MTS ]

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The founder of Brahmo Sabha was _________ .

[SSC MTS 2022]

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Veteran freedom fighter, social reformer and feminist Savithribai Phule hailed from which of the following states of India?

[SSC CGL 2019]

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Who among the following was a British reformer, a campaigner for women’s rights and a supporter of Indian nationalism?

[NTPC CBT 2]

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The Young Bengal Movement was founded by _____ .

[SSC CHSL 2022]

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Which of the following organisations is credited with writing literary pieces for the abolition of Sati Pratha?

[SSC CGL 2023]

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Samata Sainik Dal was formed in 1927 by whom among the following personalities?

[SSC CGL 2024]

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Which of the following institutes was founded by MG Ranade and GV Joshi ?

[SSC MTS 2023]

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Who among the following was NOT associated with ‘Servants of India Society' ?

[RPF SI 2024]

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Which of the following was established in Bombay in 1875?

[SSC CGL 2023]

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Gadadhar Chattopadhyay was the name of ________.

[RRB NTPC CBT]

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Who among the following is primarily connected to the World's Parliament of Religions convened in Chicago, 1893?

[SSC CGL 2024]

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Which of the following reforming societies believed Vedas to be the fountain of all the knowledge?

[SSC CGL 2023]

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As a reaction to the Muslim fundamentalism, the Hindu Mahasabha was founded in which of the following years ?

[RPF SI 2024]

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Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the _____________, an organisation that attempted to reform Hinduism.

[SSC GD 2022]

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Annie Besant was associated with which of the following socio-religious movement?

[SSC MTS 2022]

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Which of the following statements about Swami Dayanand Saraswati is INCORRECT?

[SSC CGL 2020]

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Who founded the Arya Samaj and pleaded for the right of individuals to interpret Vedas and free themselves from the tyranny of priests?

[SSC CHSL 2023]

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Shuddhi movement was initiated by which of the following organisations?

[SSC MTS 2024]

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Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar and Mahadev Govind Ranade carried out their work of religious reforms in Maharashtra through which of the following organisations?

[SSC CGL 2023]

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Which of the following organizations founded in 1875 opposes idol worship and supports the infallibility of the Vedas ?

[CONSTABLE EXE 2023]

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'The service of mankind is a means to salvation'. This slogan was propounded by Gangadhar Chattopadhyay. He was associated with _______

[RPF SI 2024]

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In the year ______the Parmahansa Mandali was founded in Poona, Satara and other towns of Maharashtra.

[NTPC CBT 2]

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Who founded the Prarthana Samaj in Mumbai in 1867?

[SSC CGL 2024]

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The Paramhans Mandali was founded in 1840 at_________ to work for the abolition of caste .

[SSC CGL 2022]

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The ______________ was started by the Sikh reformers to purify their religious places by removing the evil social practices that had slowly crept into them.

[SSC MTS 2022]

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Who among the following emphasised and propagated that the ‘Vedanta was the religion of all and NOT of the Hindus alone’?

[RPF SI 2024]

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Which of the following movements was founded in Bengal ?

[SSC MTS 2023]

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Who founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875?

[SSC CGL 2024]

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___________ played a major role in the revival of Hinduism and the spread of his interpretation of Advaita Vedanta Known as ‘Neo-Vedanta’ in the West.

[RRC GROUP D]

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