Socio-religious reform and caste movements
Women's status: widow remarriage, education, age of consent
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act 1856 and his women's schools
- Hindu Female School 1849 by J.E.D. Bethune with Vidyasagar as secretary; later Bethune School and College
- Rakhmabai case 1884-88 on restitution of conjugal rights and age of consent; Behramji Malabari's campaign; Age of Consent Act 1891
- National Social Conference founded by Ranade and Malabari to gather reform groups alongside the Congress after the Congress kept social questions out
- Child Marriage Restraint (Sarda) Act 1929; Women's Indian Association 1917, National Council of Women 1925, All India Women's Conference 1927; Pandita Ramabai
Where to study
Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 7: Women, Caste and Reform
- ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, pp. 1-15 (printed 78-92)
- ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, Changing the lives of widows, pp. 4-5 (printed 81-82)
- ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, Girls begin going to school, pp. 5-6 (printed 82-83)
- ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, Law against child marriage, p. 7 (printed 84)
- ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, Women write about women, pp. 5-6 (printed 82-83)
A Brief History of Modern India · Rajiv Ahir (Spectrum)
- ch. 9 A General Survey of Socio-Cultural Reform Movements