Socio-Religious Reform Movements Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What philosophy did Vivekananda mainly promote through his own worldwide travels and teaching?

Question 2

What did the Lahore Singh Sabha's own reformers, called Tat Khalsa, particularly stress?

Question 3

What overall trend do the Sati regulation, Widow Remarriage Act, Age of Consent Act, and Sharda Act together show?

Question 4

What more conservative organisation did Debendranath Tagore lead after this first split?

Question 5

What minimum ages for marriage did the Sharda Act actually set for men and women?

Question 6

What overall picture do the Brahmo Samaj's splits and the Arya Samaj's own rise give of this reform era?

Question 7

What educational institutions, founded in Dayananda Saraswati's own honour, spread across Punjab?

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About Socio-Religious Reform Movements

Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wave of reformers across India challenged old customs and pushed for a more just, modern society. This quiz covers that whole story, movement by movement.

It starts with Raja Rammohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj, then covers Swami Dayananda Saraswati's Arya Samaj and its call to go "back to the Vedas." It covers Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda, the Theosophical Society under Annie Besant, and the Bombay-based Prarthana Samaj. It gives real depth to the hard-fought legislative battles over sati, widow remarriage, and child marriage, led by figures like Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Pandita Ramabai.

The quiz then covers reform within other communities: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's Aligarh Movement among Muslims, the Singh Sabha movement among Sikhs, and the Parsi reformers of the Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha. It closes with the great anti-caste movements of the south and west, Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule's Satyashodhak Samaj, Periyar's Self-Respect Movement, Narayana Guru's SNDP Yogam, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's early struggles against untouchability at Mahad and beyond.