Q. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
Socio religious reform movement
Founder
1. Seva Sadan
Behramji Merwanji Malabari
2. Theosophical Society
Annie Besant
3. Prarthana Samaj
Atmaram Pandurang
4. Satya Shodhak Samaj
Dayanand Saraswati
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Q. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
| Socio religious reform movement | Founder |
| 1. Seva Sadan | Behramji Merwanji Malabari |
| 2. Theosophical Society | Annie Besant |
| 3. Prarthana Samaj | Atmaram Pandurang |
| 4. Satya Shodhak Samaj | Dayanand Saraswati |
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
The correct option is A 1 and 3 only
Explanation:
Pair 1 is correctly matched: Behramji Merwanji Malabari founded the Seva Sadan in 1908 along with a friend, Diwan Dayaram Gidumal. Seva Sadan specialized in taking care of those women who were exploited & then discarded by society. It catered to all castes and provided the destitute women with education, and medical and welfare
Pair 2 is incorrectly matched: A group of westerners led by Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Colonel M.S. Olcott, who was inspired by Indian thought and culture, founded the Theosophical Society in New York City, United States in 1875. In 1882, they shifted their headquarters to Adyar, on the outskirts of Madras in India. Society believed that a special relationship could be established between a person’s soul and God by contemplation, prayer, revelation, etc. It opposed child marriage and advocated the abolition of caste discrimination, uplift of outcastes, improvement in the condition of widows. In India, the movement became somewhat popular with the election of Annie Besant (1847-1933) as its president after the death of Olcott in 1907.
Pair 3 is correctly matched: Prarthana Samaj was founded by Dadoba Tarkhadkar and his brother Atmaram Pandurang in 1867 at Bombay, when Keshub Chandra Sen visited Maharashtra, with an aim to make people believe in one God & worship only one God. The emphasis of samaj was on monotheism, but on the whole, the samaj was more concerned with social reforms than with religion. The Prarthana Sabha was very attached to the bhakti cult of Maharashtra. The samaj relied on education and persuasion and not on confrontation with Hindu orthodoxy.
Pair 4 is incorrectly matched: JyotibaPhule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth Seekers’ Society) in 1873, with the leadership of the samaj coming from the backward classes, malis, telis,kunbis, saris and dhangars. The main aims of the movement were (i) social service, and (ii) spread of education among women and lower caste people.
Explanation:
Pair 1 is correctly matched: Behramji Merwanji Malabari founded the Seva Sadan in 1908 along with a friend, Diwan Dayaram Gidumal. Seva Sadan specialized in taking care of those women who were exploited & then discarded by society. It catered to all castes and provided the destitute women with education, and medical and welfare
Pair 2 is incorrectly matched: A group of westerners led by Madame H.P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) and Colonel M.S. Olcott, who was inspired by Indian thought and culture, founded the Theosophical Society in New York City, United States in 1875. In 1882, they shifted their headquarters to Adyar, on the outskirts of Madras in India. Society believed that a special relationship could be established between a person’s soul and God by contemplation, prayer, revelation, etc. It opposed child marriage and advocated the abolition of caste discrimination, uplift of outcastes, improvement in the condition of widows. In India, the movement became somewhat popular with the election of Annie Besant (1847-1933) as its president after the death of Olcott in 1907.
Pair 3 is correctly matched: Prarthana Samaj was founded by Dadoba Tarkhadkar and his brother Atmaram Pandurang in 1867 at Bombay, when Keshub Chandra Sen visited Maharashtra, with an aim to make people believe in one God & worship only one God. The emphasis of samaj was on monotheism, but on the whole, the samaj was more concerned with social reforms than with religion. The Prarthana Sabha was very attached to the bhakti cult of Maharashtra. The samaj relied on education and persuasion and not on confrontation with Hindu orthodoxy.
Pair 4 is incorrectly matched: JyotibaPhule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth Seekers’ Society) in 1873, with the leadership of the samaj coming from the backward classes, malis, telis,kunbis, saris and dhangars. The main aims of the movement were (i) social service, and (ii) spread of education among women and lower caste people.
