Question

Q. With reference to the National Social Conference (NSC), which of the following statements is/are correct?

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

• A. 1 and 2 only
• B. 2 and 3 only
• C. 1 and 3 only
• D. 1, 2 and 3

Answer 1

The correct option is B 2 and 3 only

Explanation:

Statement 1 is incorrect: The reform movements, in which several moderate politicians were involved, essentially attempted to bring changes in Hindu social organization and practices from within to bring them into conformity with the new rationalist ideas of the West.

Statement 2 is correct: The creation of the National Social Conference as an adjunct body to the National Congress in 1887.

Statement 3 is correct: Although religion was kept deliberately out of its agenda, the issues it discussed and reforms it recommended to various provincial organizations had strong religious implications. These movements were both influenced by Western post-Enlightenment rationalist ideas and were also responses to the challenge of Westernizing forces and their critiques of Hindu civilization.