Socio-Religious and Cultural Reforms Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

Question 1. ‘Servants of India Society’ was founded by [UP Lower Sub (Pre) 2015]

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(c) Dadabhai Naoroji
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Solution: b

Question 2. In which year Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale? [UPPSC 2017, 2016]

(a) 1902
(b) 1903
(c) 1904
(d) 1905

Solution: d

Question 3. MC Setalvad, BN Rao and Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer were distinguished member of [IAS (Pre) 1997]

(a) Swaraj Party
(b) All India National Liberal Federation
(c) Madras Labour Union
(d) Servants of India Society

Solution: d

Question 4. Who is called the father of ‘Indian Renaissance? [UK UDA/LDA (Mains) 2007]

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Dayananda Saraswati
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Solution: a

Question 5. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern India’? [WBCS 2008]

(a) Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) WC Bonnerjee

Solution: a

Question 6. Who is considered as the prophet of Nationalism? [UP lower Sub (Pre) 2009]

(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Dayananda Saraswati

Solution: b

Question 7. The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohan Roy by the Mughal Emperor.[WBCS 2017]

(a) Jahandar Shah
(b) Muhammad Shah
(c) Akbar II
(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Solution: c

Question 8. In which languages Raja Ram Mohan Roy was proficient?

(a) Sanskrit, Arabic, English
(b) Persian, French, Latin
(c) Greek and Hebrew
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 9. In 1809, Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote ‘Gift to Monotheists’ in which he put forward the idea that people must worship a single God. This was written in

(a) English
(b) Persian
(c) Bengali
(d) Arabic

Solution: b

Question 10. In 1830, Raja Ram Mohan Roy was appointed as ambassador of the Mughal Empire by which of the following king to convince the British Government for welfare of India and to ensure that the Lord William Bentinck’s regulation banning the practice of Sati was not overturned.

(a) Muhammad Shah
(b) Farrukhsiyar
(c) Husain Ali Khan
(d) Akbar Shah II

Solution: d

Question 11. The first society founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy was [UPPSC (Mains) 2009]

(a) Brahmo Samaj
(b) Atmiya Sabha
(c) Brahmo Sabha
(d) Tattwabodhini Sabha

Solution: b

Question 12. Which one among the following was a newspaper founded and edited by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

(a) The Calcutta Gazette
(b) Mirat-ul Akbar
(c) Harijan
(d) The Bharat Mihir

Solution: b

Question 13. Brahmo Samaj was founded by [MPPSC (Pre) 2006, UKPSC 2005]

(a) CR Das
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Solution: c

Question 14. Brahmo Samaj was founded in the Year of [BPSC (Pre) 2005]

(a) 1827
(b) 1829
(c) 1828
(d) 1830

Solution: c

Question 15. The Brahmo Samaj was based on the twin pillars of

(a) Reasons and Humanism
(b) Humanism and Vedas
(c) Reason, Vedas and Upanishad
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 16. Who among the following immediately succeeded Ram Mohan Roy as the head of the Brahmo Samaj? [CDS 2007]

(a) Debendranath Tagore
(b) Akshay Kumar Datta
(c) Keshab Chandra Sen
(d) Shibnath Shastri

Solution: a

Question 17. After the death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj split into two sections; the Brahmo Samaj of India and the Adi Brahmo Samaj. Who were the leaders of the two sections respectively? [CDS 2010]

(a) Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath Tagore
(b) Radhakanta Deb and Debendranath Tagore
(c) Keshab Chandra Sen and Radhakanta Deb
(d) Debendranath Tagore and Radhakanta Deb

Solution: a

Question 18. Who among the following was appointed as the First Secretary of Brahmo Sabha?

(a) Chandrasekhar Deb
(b) Tarachand Chakravarti
(c) Alexander Duff
(d) Dwarkanath Tagore

Solution: b

Question 19. Who among the following established the Calcutta Unitarian Committee? [CDS 2006]

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Keshab Chandra Sen
(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Solution: a

Question 20. Which one of the following social reformers strongly opposed Jury Act of 1826?

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(d) Rajnarayan Basu

Solution: b

Question 21. Amongst the following who cooperated with Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the implementation of his educational programmes? [CDS 2008]

(a) William Jones
(b) David Hare
(c) Henry Derozio
(d) Dwarkanath Tagore

Solution: b

Question 22. The Samadhi of Raja Ram Mohan Roy is in [UKPSC (Mains) 2006]

(a) Kolkata
(b) Patna
(c) Bristol, England
(d) Canada

Solution: c

Question 23. Which of the following are true about Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s views on women?

(a) The polygamy should be abolished.
(b) The widow remarriage should be encouraged.
(c) Women to be given the right to inheritance and property.
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 24. Which one among the following statements regarding the social and religious reform ideas of Raja Ram Mohan Roy is not correct? [CDS 2010]

(a) His efforts led to the formation of Brahmo Samaj in 1828.
(b) He considered different religions as embodiments of universal theism.
(c) His Vedantic monism was strengthened after 1815 since an exposure to Christian Unitarianism.
(d) He paid attention exclusively to the problems/issues of the emerging middle class of India.

Solution: d

Question 25. Which one among the following statements regarding prohibition of Sati in India is correct?

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy wanted an expeditious and urgent abolition of Sati and therefore advised Bentinck to take emergency legislative measures.
(b) The Sati was made illegal in 1829 but was not made punishable by the courts until 1840.
(c) The persons associated in any way with Sati were to be regarded as criminals.
(d) At the time of his appointment as Governor-General, Bentinck was instructed by the Home Authorities to consider definite measures for the immediate or gradual abolition of Sati.

Solution: b

Question 26. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

(a) Adi Brahmo Samaj – Debendranath Tagore
(b) Brahmo Samaj of India – Chandra Sen
(c) Sadharan Brahmo Samaj – Rajanikanta Sen
(d) Prarthana Samaj – Dr Atmaram Pandurang

Solution: c

Question 27. Which of the following credit goes to the Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

I. He initiated public agitation on political questing like the need of reforms in British administration etc.
II. He pioneered Indian Journalism to educated public.
III. He championed the women’s rights like rights of inheritance and property, he opposed Sati and got it abolished by British Government.
IV. He attacked polygamy and degraded condition of women.

(a) II, III and IV
(b) I and II
(c) All of these
(d) None of these

Solution: c

Question 28. Consider the following statements relating to Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

I. He knew that the spread of Western education was necessary to develop a national and scientific attitude in the Indian society.
II. He played a pioneering role in the religious and social reform movements of the nineteenth century Bengal.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Solution: c

Question 29. What is true about Brahmo Samaj?

I. It laid emphasis on human dignity.
II. It opposed idol worship.
III. It criticised social evils like Sati.
IV. It incorporated the teaching of other religions.

(a) I and II
(b) Only III
(c) I, II and III
(d) All of these

Solution: d

Question 30. Consider the following statements about Brahmo Samaj.

I. It was the earliest reform movement of the modern type greatly influenced by modern Western Ideas.
II. Keshab Chandra Sen joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1858.
III. It discarded faith in divine avatars.

Which of these statements is/are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) Only III
(c) I and III
(d) I, II and III

Solution: c

Question 31. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Brahmo Samaj?

I. It opposed idolatry.
II. It denied the need for a priestly class for interpreting the religious texts.
III. It popularised the doctrine that the Vedas are infallible.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below. [IAS (Pre) 2012]

(a) Only I
(b) I and II
(c) Only III
(d) All of these

Solution: b

Question 32. Consider the following statements.

I. Debendranath Tagore set up Tattwabodhini Sabha to facilitate discussions on different philosophies.
II. In 1842, Debendranath founded Tattwabodhini Patrika to publish Upanisads along with his Bangla Translation.
III. The Tattwabodhini Sabha was setup under the editorship of Akshay kumar Datta.
IV. Brahmo Samaj in Madras was founded with the help of Keshab Chandra Sen in 1864.

Which of these statements are correct?

(a) I, II and III
(b) II, III and IV
(c) I, II, III an IV
(d) I, III and IV

Solution: c

Question 33. Which among the following statements with regard to Raja Ram Mohan Roy is/are correct? [NDA 2010]

I. He started the Atmiya Sabha.
II. He wrote the Gift to Monotheist.
III. He published the Precepts of Jesus.
IV. He founded the Brahmo Sabha.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) II, III and IV
(b) I, II and III
(c) I, III and IV
(d) All of these

Solution: d

Question 34. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj? [BPSC (Pre) 2011, CGPSC 2004]

(a) Atmaram Pandurang
(b) Tilak
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Rashbehari Ghosh

Solution: a

Question 35. Who was the Chief Director of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra? [UP Lower Sub (Pre) 2004]

(a) RG Bhandarkar
(b) MG Ranade
(c) Pandita Ramabai
(d) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

Solution: b

Question 36. Which one among the following was not a demand of the Prarthana Samaj? [CDS 2012]

(a) Women education
(b) Widow remarriage
(c) Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls
(d) Abolition of untouchability

Solution: c

Question 37. His principal forte was social and religious reform. He relied upon legislation to do away with social ills and worked unceasingly for the eradication of child marriage, the purdah system. To encourage consideration of social problems on a national scale, he inaugurated the Indian National Social Conference, which for many years met for its annual sessions alongside the Indian National Congress. [IAS (Pre) 1996] The reference in this passage is to

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(b) Behramji Merwanji Malabari
(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(d) BR Ambedkar

Solution: c

Question 38. Which of the following are true about Prarthana Samaj of MG Ranade?

I. It was an offshoot of Brahmo Samaj of India.
II. It was a reform movement within Hinduism.
III. MG Ranade and RG Bhandarkar joined it in 1870 and infused a new strength in it.
IV. It concentrated on social reforms like intercaste marriage, remarriage of widows and upliftment of woman of depressed classes.

(a) I, IV and III
(b) I, II and III
(c) I, II and IV
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 39. Which of the following statements about Prarthana Samaj are correct? [Astt. Comm. 2019]

I. Its aim was to reform the Hindu society.
II. It was based in Maharashtra.
III. It believed in monotheism.
IV. It had greatly influenced the Brahmo Samaj

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I, II and III
(d) I and IV

Solution: c

Question 40. Which of the following is/are incorrect?

I. In 1867 the Prarthana Samaj of Bombay was founded.
II. Two of its chief architects were Mahadev Govind Ranade and Ramakrishna Bhandarkar.
III. The leaders of the Prarthana Samaj were not influenced by the ‘Brahmo Samaj’.
IV. The Prarthana Samaj leaders condemned the caste system and the practice of untouchability.

Codes

(a) I, II and III
(b) II, III and IV
(c) Only III
(d) III and IV

Solution: c

Question 41. Dayananda Saraswati founded [BPSC (Pre) 1999] 

(a) Brahmo Samaj
(b) Arya Samaj
(c) Prarthana Samaj
(d) Bahujan Samaj

Solution: b

Question 42. The year in which Arya Samaj was founded [UP Lower Sub (Pre) 2009]

(a) 1865
(b) 1870
(c) 1875
(d) 1880

Solution: c

Question 43. Which of the following is responsible for the revival of Vedas? [UPPSC (Pre) 1995]

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(b) Ramanuja
(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
(d) Swami Vivekananda

Solution: c

Question 44. Who gave the slogan ‘Back to Vedas’? [WBCS 2018]

(a) Lala Hansraj
(b) Pandit Guru Dutt
(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Solution: c

Question 45. According to Dayananda, which of the following was full of false teachings?

(a) Vedas
(b) Upanishadas
(c) Puranas
(d) All of these

Solution: c

Question 46. Who among the following is known as ‘Martin Luther’ of India? [UPPSC 2007]

(a) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Swami Shraddhanand

Solution: a

Question 47. Who was the author of ‘Satyarth Prakash? [MPPSC 2020, 2019]

(a) Swami Shraddhanand
(b) Maharshi DK Karve
(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
(d) Pt Shri Ram Sharma Acharya

Solution: c

Question 48. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ is a sacred book of [UK UDA/LDA (Pre) 2007]

(a) Arya Samaj
(b) Brahmo Samaj
(c) Theosoptical Society
(d) Prarthana Samaj

Solution: a

Question 49. Which among the following organisations supported Shuddhi Movement?

(a) Arya Samaj
(b) Brahmo Samaj
(c) Dev Samaj
(d) Prarthana Samaj

Solution: a

Question 50. Who of the following said ‘Good Government is no substitute for Self-Government’? [UKPSC 2005]

(a) Lokmanya Tilak
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Swami Dayananda
(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Solution: c

Question 51. The Arya Samajists split on the issue of

(a) Meat eating vs Vegetarianism
(b) Anglicised vs Sanskrit based education
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) Neither (a) nor (b)

Solution: c

Question 52. Arya Samaj criticised

(a) child marriage
(b) idolatry and polytheism
(c) the taboo on foreign travel
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 53. The movements launched by Dayananda Saraswati, which proved to be very controversial were

(a) cow protection and Shuddhi Movement.
(b) call to go back to the Vedas and complete discard of caste system.
(c) Shuddhi Movement and complete rejection of caste system.
(d) challenging the conservative Hinduism and admitting the non-Hindus to the fold of Hinduism.

Solution: a

Question 54. Consider the following statements. [CDS 2009]

I. Dayananda Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875.
II. The Arya Samaj repudiated the authority of the caste system.
III. Dayananda Saraswati was born in the Brahmin family.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) I, II and III
(b) I and II
(c) II and III
(d) I and III

Solution: b

Question 55. Consider the following statements. [IAS (Pre) 2001]

I. Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.
II. Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the appeal of Arya Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of its social reform programmes.
III. Under Keshab Chandra Sen the Brahmo Samaj campaigned for women’s education.
IV. Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj to work among refugees.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) II and IV
(d) III and IV

Solution: d

Question 56. Which of the following statement(s) about the social base of the Arya Samaj in British India is/are correct? [CDS 2017]

I. It was located mainly in Punjab and Western Uttar Pradesh.
II. It mainly comprised the trading castes.
III. It was much more limited than that of the Brahmo Samaj.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) Only I
(d) I, II and III

Solution: c

Question 57. Consider the following statements in regard to Arya Samaj Movement.

I. Dayananda Saraswati rejected later religious thoughts, which were in conflict with the Vedas, but his dependence on the Vedas and their infallibility gave his teachings an orthodox colouring.
II. The Arya Samajists though fought against untouchability, but supported the rigidities of hereditary caste system.
III. The Arya Samaj Movement tried to prevent the conversion of Hindus to other religions, leading to inter-religious frictions, which was one of the factors in the growth of communalism in India in the 20th century.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) I and III
(c) II and III
(d) All of these

Solution: b

Question 58. Which of the following statements about the Arya Samaj which emerged in the late 19th century are correct? [Astt. Comm. 2019]

I. Had a strong supporting base amongst the trading castes.
II. Introduced ‘Shuddhi’ or mass purification.
III. The moderates in the Arya Samaj were headed by Hans Raj and Lajpat Rai and set up a chain of Dayananda Anglo-Vedic Colleges.
IV. The Arya Samaj had fewer membery than the Brahmo Samaj.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and II
(b) I, II and III
(c) III and IV
(d) I, III and IV

Solution: b

Question 59. The best representative of Neo-Hindustan in second half of the nineteenth century was [BPSC (Pre) 1996]

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(b) Swami Vivekananda
(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Solution: b

Question 60. In which year did Swami Vivekananda participate the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago? [UPPCS 2008]

(a) 1893
(b) 1895
(c) 1897
(d) 1899

Solution: a

Question 61. Who among the following famous reformers wrote the books Inyana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga? [UP Lower Sub (Pre) 2015]

(a) Swami Vivekananda
(b) Ranade
(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Solution: a

Question 62. Who is the profounder of ‘Practical Vedanta’? [CGPSC (Pre) 2019]

(a) Dayanand
(b) Raj Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Gandhijee
(d) Vivekananda

Solution: d

Question 63. Who was the founder of Ramakrishna Mission? [UPPSC (Mains) 2004]

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(b) MN Das Gupta
(c) Swami Vivekananda
(d) Swami Ranganathananda

Solution: c

Question 64. Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission in the year. [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2013]

(a) 1861
(b) 1891
(c) 1893
(d) 1897

Solution: d

Question 65. “So long as the million live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who having been educated at their expense, pays not the least head to them.” Who said it?

(a) MK Gandhi
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Dayananda Saraswati
(d) Swami Vivekananda

Solution: d

Question 66. Consider the following statements about Swami Vivekananda.[CDS 2009]

I. He said that Vedanta was the religion of all.
II. He believed in reviving all the best traditions of Hinduism.
III. He was impressed by the status of women in the West.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) I, II and III
(b) I and II
(c) II and III
(d) I and III

Solution: a

Question 67. Which of the statements given below about Vivekananda are correct? [CDS 2011]

I. He believed that Vedanta was fully rational.
II. He criticised his countrymen for having lost touch with the outside world.
III. He condemned the caste system.
IV. He considered the Veda to be infallible.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I, II and III
(b) II, III and IV
(c) I, III and IV
(d) I and II

Solution: a

Question 68. Consider the following statements and mark the correct option.

I. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa used to say “All different religion views but different ways leading to the same goal.”
II. Swami Vivekananda established Vedant College in 1825.
III. Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s first philosophic work was ‘Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin.’

(a) Only III
(b) I and II
(c) None of the above
(d) All of the above

Solution: a

Question 69. Who founded the ‘Theosophical Society’? [BPSC (Pre) 2011]

(a) Madame HP Blavatsky
(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Swami Vivekananda

Solution: a

Question 70. The Theosophical Society was led by [UPPSC 2017]

(a) AO Hume
(b) Arthur Griffith
(c) Annie Besant
(d) Lord Dufferin

Solution: c

Question 71. Which of the following statements about Theosophical Society are correct?

I. Its founders were non-Indians.
II. Its advocates were in favour of the revival of Hinduism.
III. It advocated for the adoption of rational and scientific approach based on Western ideas.
IV. It helped people to overcome the sense of false pride.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I, II and III
(b) II, III and IV
(c) I, III and IV
(d) I and II

Solution: c

Question 72. Consider the following statements in respect of the Theosophical Society Movement in India.

I. The Theosophical Society Movement was led by Westerners (Europeans and Americans) who glorified Indian religious and philosophical traditions.
II. This movement tended to give the Indian as sense of false pride in their past greatness.
III. This movement got remarkable success within India as well as outside India.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

(a) I and II
(b) II and III
(c) I and III
(d) All of these

Solution: c

Question 73. Where was first Madrasa set up by the British in India? [UPPSC 2006]

(a) Madras
(b) Bombay
(c) Aligarh
(d) Calcutta

Solution: d

Question 74. The main aim of Wahhabism was

(a) to get rid of Muslim society of dogmatism.
(b) to overthrow British.
(c) to counter Hinduism.
(d) to rejuvenate Muslim power in India.

Solution: d

Question 75. The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh was founded by [WBCS 2007]

(a) Md Ali Jinnah
(b) Muhammad Ali
(c) Shaukat Ali
(d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Solution: d

Question 76. ……… was the centre of the Aligarh movement. [WBCS 2017]

(a) The Deoband School
(b) The Anglo-Oriental College
(c) Pir-Fakir Majlis
(d) The Khilafat Committee

Solution: b

Question 77. ‘Darul Uloom was established by [UPPSC (Mains) 2014]

(a) Maulana Shibli Nomani
(b) Maulavi Hussain Ahmed
(c) Maulavi Abdullah Chakralavi
(d) Maulana Ahmad Raza Khan

Solution: b

Question 78. The Deoband Movement in UP (United Provinces) started in the year [UPPSC (Pre) 2016]

(a) 1900 AD
(b) 1888 AD
(c) 1885 AD
(d) 1866 AD

Solution: d

Question 79. Which reformer does the following passage relate to? “He insisted on the cooperation of the Muslims with the British Government and looked at all political movements with distrust. Thus, when the Indian National Congress was formed, he opposed it. He regarded education alone as the means of national progress.”

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) Keshab Chandra Sen
(b) Lord Macaulay
(c) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(d) Badruddin Tyabji

Solution: c

Question 80. Several socio-political organisations were formed in the 19th and 20th centuries in India, Anjuman-eKhawatin-e-Islam, founded in the year 1914 was [CDS 2013]

(a) All India Muslim Ladies Conference
(b) A radical wing of the All India Muslim League
(c) All India Muslim Students’ Conference
(d) All India Islamic Conference

Solution: a

Question 81. Who among the following is known as the ‘Father of Muslim Renaissance’ in Bengal? [SSC CGL 2020]

(a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
(b) Ameer Ali
(c) Nawab Salimullah Khan
(d) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan

Solution: d

Question 82. Which one of the following proclaimed himself to be the ‘Masin Al-Maud’ and ‘Incarnation of Krishna’?

(a) Title Mir
(b) Haji Shariatullah
(c) Syed Ahmad Khan
(d) Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani

Solution: d

Question 83. Arrange the following establishments according to their establishment year and choose the correct answer by using the codes given below.

I. Indian Association for the cultivation of science.
II. Society for the exhibition of General Knowledge.
III. Bihar Scientific Society. IV. Aligarh Scientific Society.

(a) I, III, IV, II
(b) II, IV, III, I
(c) IV, III, I, II
(d) II, IV, I, III

Solution: b

Question 84. Assertion (A) Movements for religious reform were late in emerging among the Muslims.
Reason (R) The Muslim upper classes had initially tended to avoid contact with Western Education and Culture.

Codes

(a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true

Solution: a

Question 85. Which of the following statements about Sir Syed Ahmad Khan is/are correct?

I. He argued that India was a federation of ethnic communities based on common descent.
II. His philosophy was very similar to that of the Indian National Congress.
III. He imagined India as a Nation State based on individual citizen’s rights.
IV. The curriculum at the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College blended Muslim theology and European empiricism.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) Only I
(b) II and III
(c) Only III
(d) I and IV

Solution: d

Question 86. Consider the following statements.

I. Deoband Movement was founded by Muhammad Qasim Nanaotavi and Rashid Ahmed Gangohi.
II. The objective of the movement was to improve the spiritual and moral condition of Indian Muslims.

Which of the statements given above is /are correct?

(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both I and II
(d) Neither I nor II

Solution: c

87. Match the following. List I (Islamic Revivalist and Reform Movement of 19th Century) List II (Founder) A. Tariqah-iMuhammadiyya 1. Ahmad Raza Khan B. Fara’izi Movement 2. Rashid Ahmad Gangohi C. Barelvi Movement 3. Syed Ahmad Barelvi D. Deobandi Movement 4. Haji Shariat Ullah Codes A B C D A B C D (a) 3 4 2 1 (b) 2 4 1 3 (c) 2 4 3 1 (d) 3 4 1 2

88. Match the following. List I (Muslim Reform Movement) List II (Founder of the Movement) A. Wahabi Movement 1. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad B. Faraizi or Faroudi 2. Maulana Muhammad Mugheera Ali C. Ahrar 3. Haji Shariatullah D. Ahmadiya Movement 4. Syed Ahmad Codes A B C D A B C D (a) 4 3 2 1 (b) 3 2 4 1 (c) 1 2 4 3 (d) 2 1 4 3

Question 89. The Greatest Parsi social reformer of the 19th century was [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2010]

(a) Sir Jamshedji
(b) Sir Rustom Behramji
(c) Navalji Tata
(d) Behramji M Malabari

Solution: d

Question 90. Who founded Rahanumai Mazdayasanan Sabha?

(a) Naoroji Furdunji
(b) Dadabhai Naoroji
(c) SS Bengali
(d) All of the above

Solution: d

Question 91. Consider the following passage. “Born in 1853 he was a Parsi from Western India. He was the editor of “Indian spectator” and “Voice of India.” He was a social reformer and was the chief crusader for the Age of Consent Act 1891.” Who is being described in the above paragraph? [UPRO/ARO (Pre) 2016]

(a) Dadabhai Naoroji
(b) BM Malabari
(c) BP Wadia
(d) Naoroji Furdunji

Solution: b

Question 92. In 1873 who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj? [BPSC 2019, WBCS 2018]

(a) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(b) Jyotirao Phule
(c) Shiv Nath Shastri
(d) None of the above

Solution: b

Question 93. Whose main aim was to uplift the backward classes? [IAS (Pre) 1993]

(a) Prarthana Samaj
(b) Satyashodhak Samaj
(c) Arya Samaj
(d) Ramkrishna Mission

Solution: b

Question 94. Satyashodhak Samaj organised [IAS (Pre) 2016]

(a) a movement for upliftment of tribals in Bihar.
(b) a temple entry movement in Gujarat.
(c) an Anti-caste Movement in Maharashtra.
(d) a peasant movement in Punjab.

Solution: c

Question 95. Who among the following social reformer started a society for the encouragement of widow remarriage in 1866 in Maharashtra? [NDA 2018]

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(b) Jyotirao Phule
(c) Vishnushastri Pandit
(d) Pandita Ramabai

Solution: c

Question 96. Which one of the following was the author of ‘Gulamgiri’? [UPPSC (Pre) 2000]

(a) BR Ambedkar
(b) Jyotirao Phule
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) Periyar

Solution: b

Question 97. Which social reformer’s wife started a girl school at Poona in 1851?

(a) Jyotirao Phule
(b) GM Deshmukh
(c) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(d) None of the above

Solution: a

Question 98. Which social reformer was popularly called as ‘Periyar’? [WBCS 2018]

(a) EV Ramasamy Naicker
(b) CV Raman Pillai
(c) BR Ambedkar
(d) Jyotirao Phule

Solution: a

Question 99. Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh?

(a) BG Tilak
(b) NM Lokhande
(c) MK Gandhi
(d) BR Ambedkar

Solution: c

Question 100. Which one of the following statements about the All India Depressed Classes Association is not correct? [CDS 2017]

(a) The All India Depressed Classes Association was formed in Nagpur with MC Rajah as its first elected President.
(b) The All India Depressed Classes Association was not attended by Dr BR Ambedkar in 1926.
(c) Ambedkar resigned from the All India Depressed Classes Association and formed his own All India Depressed Classes Congress in 1930.
(d) The All India Depressed Classes Association favoured Ambedkar’s demand for separate electorate for the depressed classes.

Solution: d

Question 101. Identify the correct combination from the options given below for Prarthana Samaj, Young India, Lokhitvadi, Satyashodhak Samaj, Rehnumai Mazdayasan Sabha.

(a) Gopal Hari Deshmukh, Atmaram Pandurang, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Jyotirao Phule, Naoroji Furdunji.
(b) Atmaram Pandurang, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gopal Hari Deshmukh, Jyotirao Phule, Naoroji Furdunji.
(c) Atmaram Pandurang, Jyotirao Phule, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gopal Hari Deshmukh, Naoroji Furdunji.
(d) Naoroji Furdunji, Atmaram Pandurang, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gopal Hari Deshmukh, Jyotirao Phule.

Solution: b

Question 102. Which of the following statements about Jyotirao Phule’s Satyashodhak Samaj Movement in Maharashtra is/are true? [CDS 2015]

I. The Satyashodhak Samaj was set-up in 1873.
II. Phule argued that Brahmins were the progeny of ‘alien’ Aryans.
III. Phule’s focus on the Kunbi peasantry in the 1880s and 1890s led to a privileging of Maratha identity.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below.

(a) I and II
(b) Only II
(c) I and III
(d) I, II and III

Solution: a

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