Question

Match the social reformers and their works.

Answer 1

Samvada Kaumudi was a Bengali weekly newspaper published from Kolkata in the first half of the 19th century by Ram Mohan Roy. It was a noted pro-Reformist publication that actively campaigned for the abolition of the practice of 'Sati'. Satyarth Prakash is an 1875 book written originally in Hindi by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati, a renowned religious and social reformer and the founder of Arya Samaj. In 1914, Annie Besant purchased the Madras Standard newspaper and renamed it New India, which, thereafter, became the chosen organ for her tempestuous propaganda for India’s freedom. Jyotiba Phule wrote the famous book called 'Gulamgiri'.