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There was a false notion among the upper-caste that untouchables would pollute the rooms where their children were taught.
The codes of Manu, the ancient lawgiver and the Bhgavad Gita and the Ramayana.
He left the congress because he found nationalists adhering to caste distinctions. At a feast organised by them, the lower castes were made to sit at ...
The Satyashodhak Samaj was an association that propagated caste equality. It was founded by Jyotirao Phule.
They were untouchables.
They belonged to laboring castes.
They were experts at cleaning hides, tanning them for use, and sewing sandals.
Leatherworkers work with dead animals which are seen as dirty and polluting. Hence, people see them with contempt.
These missionaries set up schools for tribal groups and lower caste children. Here, they were equipped with some skills to make their way into a new w...
It trained them so that they could manage financial support for themselves.
Tarabai Shinde published Stripuru-shtulna. It is about the social differences between men and women.
Mumtaz Ali was a social reformer who reinterpreted verses from the Koran to argue for the education of women.
It was a popular festival in which devotees underwent a peculiar form of suffering as part of ritual worship. With hooks pierced through their skin, t...
Raja Rammohun Roy was a learned social reformer. He was well versed in Sanskrit, Persian, and several other Indian and European languages. He raised v...
Traders and moneylenders were known as Vaishyas.
Widows who chose death by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands were known as ‘sati’, meaning virtuous woman.
They brought changes in society by persuading people to give up old practices and adopt a new way of life.
Social reformers are described so because they felt that some changes were essential in society and unjust practices needed to be rooted out.
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