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Raavi Tiwari
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Answer to: Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswami Naicker critical of the national movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?

Both Jyoti Rao Phule and Naicker were critical of national movement in their own times. Jyoti Rao Phule was critical of nationalism preached by upper...

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Answer to: What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?

Ambedkar was born into a Mahar family. In childhood, he experienced various forms of caste prejudices in his everyday life. Ambedkar led three suc...

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Answer to: Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves?

Jyotirao Phule wrote a book in 1873. He named the book Gulamgiri meaning slavery. Some ten years before this, the American Civil War had been fought, ...

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Answer to: How did Jyotirao, the reformer, justify their criticism of caste inequality in society?

Jyotirao Phule, born in 1827, was the most vocal amongst the “Low-caste” leaders. He attacked the Brahmans’ claim of their superiority to others. ...

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Answer to: In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came from castes that were regarded as “low”?

With the expansion of cities, new demands of labor created. Drains had to be dug, roads laid, buildings constructed and cities cleaned. This required ...

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Answer to: Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so, for what reasons?

Christian Missionaries were attacked in the country by many people because they suspected that they were involved in forced conversion and conversion ...

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Answer to: What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school?

Vidyasagar in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and many other reformers in Bombay. (now Mumbai) set up schools for girls. When the first schools were opene...

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Answer to: How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?

The reformers tried to convince people that widow burning, caste distinctions, child marriage, etc. had no sanction in ancient texts. Their knowledge ...

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Answer to: What social ideas did the following people support: 1. Rammohun Roy 2. Dayanand Saraswati 3. Veerasalingam Pantulu 4. Jyotirao Phule 5. Pandita Ramabai

These people supported the following ideas: Spread of education among women. Widow remarriage. Caste equality and justice. Abolition of child m...

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Answer to: What were Tagore’s ideas on education?

Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the Bri...

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Answer to: What were the special features of a pathshala?

In a pathshala the system of education was flexible. There were no fixed fee, no printed books, no separate school building, no benches or chairs, no ...

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Answer to: What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?

In accordance with Wood’s Despatch, Education Departments were established in every province and universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madr...

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