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Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the social reform association called Brahmo Samaj.

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Who was the founder of the Satya Shodhak Samaj?
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In _____AD Sati system was banned. (1829/1839)
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lshwar Chandra Vidyasagar's greatest contribution was to the cause of _____ remarriage. (Widow/ Widower)
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Which Indian lady never went to school but wrote an autobiography?

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Raja Rammohun Roy founded the _____ (Brahmo Samaj/ Arya Samaj) in Calcutta.
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 In aristocratic Muslim households in North India, women learnt to read the Koran in Arabic and were taught by women who came home to teach.
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Savitribai Phule opened five schools for girls in Poona in 1848.
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Social reformers had to discard the ancient texts in order to argue for reform in social practices.
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Who worked towards widow remarriage reforms in the Telugu-speaking areas of the Madras Presidency?
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In which city apart from Patna, Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools for Muslim girls?
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The Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875, at Aligarh, later became the Aligarh Muslim University.
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Orthodox Muslims were not worried about the impact of the changes that were taking place in the society in the form of women thinkers.
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Which was one of the first institutions to provide girls with the same kind of learning that was usually for boys at that time?
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Rammohan Roy was one of the earliest propagators of modern education.
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Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country.
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Kandukuri Veerasalingam said that, “oru jati, oru matam, oru daivam manushyanu” (one caste, one religion, one god for humankind).
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From the early twentieth century, Muslim women like the Begums of _____ played a notable role in promoting education among women. (Bhopal/ Patna) 
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What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school?
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The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in 1829.
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_____ used the ancient texts to suggest that widows could remarry. (Vivekanand/ Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar)