Status of Women in India through the ages Online Test 8th Social Science Lesson 19 Questions in English

Which of the following puts put limitations and restrictions on the liberty of women?

1. New social practices
2. New customs
3. New Systems

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. The position of women was not uniform in all periods, diff ered with regional variations.
2. In ancient India particularly early Vedic period women, enjoyed equal rights.

In which year Sati was abolished?

In which year widow remarriage act was passed?

• Assertion: Reformers started girls’ schools in various parts of the country, which brought significant changes in the lives of women
• Reason: The reformers rightly realized that female education as an emancipating agent in  eradicating social evils

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. Until independence, there was no radical changes in the status of women
2. In independent India, last few decades have witnessed the all round development of women.

Which statement is incorrect regarding status of women in Ancient Period?

• In the ancient Indus civilization of India, evidences show the worship of the mother goddess.
• During later Vedic age witnessed a transitional development in the status of women restricting her role in the social life except in the performance of religious sacrifices.

During Which period Sati become popular?

Purdah system, child marriages, female infanticide evolved during_____

Who among the following practised Jauhar?

Which Mughal emperor attempted to abolish sati?

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. The daughters of Rajput chiefs and Zamindars studied literature and philosophy
2. In medieval times, Women’s education was not completely ignored, though no regular separate school seems to have existed

In which year Calcutta Female Juvenile Society was setup?

Bethune school was founded in_____

Which among the following laid a great stress on the need for female education?

In Which year Hunter commission recommended to start primary schools for girls and 

teacher-training institution?

Who among the following established a number of female schools in Poona?

Lady Harding Medical College is situated in_____

Which of the following was the reason for Female infanticide?

Which of the following acts by company was/were against female infanticide?

1. Regulating Act of 1802
2. Female Infanticide Act of 1870
3. Regulatory Act XXI of 1795

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. Female foeticide is also an inhuman practice which cuts across the caste, creed, class and regional boundaries.
2. In order to ban the female foeticide and sex-determination the central Government passed various Acts.

What was the age prescribed by Akbar for marriage of girls and boys?

In which year native marriage act was passed?

Rai Saheb Harbilas Sarada’s child Marriage Bill fixing the minimum marriageable age for 

Boys passed in____

Which of the following traveller visited Vijayanagar stated ‘the inhabitants of this region 

marry as many wives as they please, who are burnt with their dead husbands’?

Who among the following is the brother of Raja Rammohan Roy who died in 1811?

1. Raja Rammohan Roy published his tracts in 1818-20, making the point that the rite of Sati was not enjoined by the Sastras
2. Orthodox Hindu opinion against the abolition was advocated by Radhakanta Deb, and Bhawani Charan

Who among the following took up the question of Sati, he found that the abolition had 

been recommended by the judges of the criminal courts?

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. The word Devadasi (Sanskrit) or Devar adiyal (Tamil) means “servant of God” dancing girl dedicated to the service of god in a temple.
2. Devadasi system was a social evil.

In which year Muthulakshmi Ammaiyar was nominated to the Tamil Nadu legislative 

Council?

The Madras Devadasi Act was a law that was enacted on_____

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. Influenced by the ruthless attack of the movement led by Rammohan Roy the British government declared this act as “culpable Homicide”
2. Raja Rammohan Roy is most remembered for helping Lord Dalhousie to declare the practice of Sati a punishable offence in 1829

Who submitted petitions to this effect to the Indian Legislative Council and to the passing 

of the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act?

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidhyasagar’s son Narayanachandra set an example to others by marrying a widow of his choice.
2. To promote female education, Vidhyasagar founded several girls’ schools in the districts of Nadia, Midnapur, Hugli and Burdwan in Bengal

Which of the following is the journal of Kandukuri Veeresalingam?

In Which year Kandukuri Veeresalingam opened first girls’ school?

Who started the National Social Conference in 1887?

Which of the following statement is incorrect?

1. In Bombay presidency, M.G. Ranade and B.M. Malabari carried on the movement for the upliftment of women
2. In 1784, B.M. Malabari, a journalist, started a movement for the abolition of child marriage.

Who among the following started the Servants of India Society?

1. Brahma Samaj                  -I) 1875
2. Arya Samaj                        -II) 1867
3. Prarthana Samaj               -III) 1828

Who opened Sarada Sadan (Home of Learning) for Hindu widows in Bombay?

Theosophical society in Chennai was established by____

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. Dr. S. Dharmambal was another reformer who was very much influenced by the ideas of Rajaji 
2. ‘Moovalur Ramamirdham Ammaiyar’ raised her voice against Devadasi system along with Dr. Muthulakshmi Ammaiyar.

In memory of whom government provide financial assistance to poor women for 

marriage?

Which of the following are correctly matched?

1. Rani Lakshmi Bhai – Jhansi 
2. Velunachiyar – Dindugal 

In which year National Commission for women was setup?

Which Article of constitution guarantees equal opportunity and equal pay for equal work?

Which of the following statement is correct?

1. The National policy for empowerment of women was passed under the National Policy on Education (1986), new programme was launched called Mahila Samakhya
2. Reservation of 33 percent to women envisaged an improvement in the socio-political status of women.

1. The Sharda Act,1930 -                   I) Female infanticide was declared illegal
2. Bengal regulation of XXI, 1804      II) Child Marriage was prohibited
3. The Native Marriage Act, 1872      III) age of marriage was raised for boys and girls