women caste and reform chapter quiz

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Raja Rammohan Roy fought against which social evil?

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Sati system

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What were Raja Rammohan Roy's social ideas?

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Western education, equality, and freedom for women.

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What were Raja Rammohan Roy's achievements?

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The Sati system was banned, women gained freedom, and the Brahmo Samaj was established.

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Which family was ICV born into?

Where?

When?

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Poor Brahmin family from Bengal in 1820.

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ICV fought against which social evil?

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the conditions of widows after their husbands die.

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ICV's Achievements

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The Widow Remarriage Act was passed, and schools for girls were opened.

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ICV's social ideas

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Promoting remarriage

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Why were people hesitant to send girls to school?

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They feared that...

1. Women would gain freedom.

2. There was a blind superstition that an educated woman's husband would die early.

3. She would not remain under her husband's control and would neglect household chores.

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Begums of Bhopal's Contribution

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They promoted education and founded a primary school for girls in Aligarh.

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Roquiah Sakhawat's Contribution

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Started Muslim girls' schools in Patna and Calcutta.