Education for Girls

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Write a note on The role of women in nationalist struggles

Q. Why did Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain criticise the views of religious leaders?

1. Religious leaders accorded inferior status to women.
2. Religious leaders accorded superior status to women.
3. Religious leaders were corrupt.
4. Religious leaders encouraged equality.

Q. What does the book Stri Purush Tulana talk about?

1. Women empowerment
2. Social differences between men and women
3. Political differences between men and women
4. Economic differences between men and women

Q. The first girl's school in India was established in .

1. Pune (1848)
2. Nagpur (1850)
3. Allahabad (1845)
4. Trichy (1865)

Q. Who published the book Stri Purush Tulana?

1. Phoolan Devi
2. Savitribai Phule
3. Tarabai Shinde
4. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Q. List the different types of religious practice that you find in your neighbourhood. This could be different forms of prayer, worship of different gods, sacred sites, different kinds of religious music and singing etc. Does this indicate freedom of religious practice?

Q. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain built schools for Muslim girls in ____.

1. Patna
2. Calcutta
3. Calcutta and Patna
4. Bhopal and Calcutta

Q. Begums of ____ played an important role in promoting the education of Muslim women.

1. Bengal
2. Bhopal
3. Bombay
4. Lahore

Q. Stri Purush Tulana was written by .

1. Ramabai
2. Tarabai Shinde
3. Mumtaz Ali
4. Rashsundari Debi

Q. Pandita Ramabai was a ____ scholar.

1. Sanskrit
2. English
3. Tamil
4. Bengali

Q. Which period witnessed the active participation of women in socialist and nationalist movements?

1. 1900s
2. 1920s
3. 1940s
4. 1960s

Q. Savitribai Phule is considered India's first lady teacher.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which of the following statements is/are true regarding the shelter that was run by Pandita Ramabai?

1. It was a widows' shelter.
2. The shelter accommodated women who had faced domestic abuse.
3. The sheltered women were taught skills.
4. The women had to hail from rich and affluent places to get themselves a spot in the shelter.

Q. ___________ feared women adopting western culture to liberate themselves from conservative practices.

1. British government
2. Hindu nationalists
3. Orthodox Muslims
4. Hindu nationalists and orthodox Muslims

Q. Nationalist leaders promised _______ for women after independence.

1. education
2. job opportunities
3. voting rights
4. healthcare

Q. Several women like Pandita Ramabai, Rassundari Devi, and Begum Rokeya fought against patriarchy with regard to which of the following?

1. Women's education
2. Fighting child marriage
3. Men's education
4. Contesting elections

Q. Reformers considered ____ as an important tool for women empowerment.

1. health
2. education
3. political power
4. social status

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what did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?

What were the different reason people had for not sending girls to school?

Q. Pandita Ramabai's book covered which of the following aspects?

1. Miserable lives of lower-caste women.
2. Prosperous lives of lower-caste women.
3. Miserable lives of upper-caste women.
4. Prosperous lives of upper-caste women.

Q. Look up to the annual calendar of holidays of your school. How many of them pertain to different religions? What does this indicate?