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    The document is a worksheet that contains questions about women's caste and reforms in India. It includes multiple choice and true/false questions about the Brahmo Samaj religious reform movement, the banning of sati, and people who established important institutions like widows' homes. It also contains a short passage from Rammohun Roy advocating against sati, and questions about that passage. The worksheet seems to be assessing knowledge about social reforms that aimed to improve conditions for women and lower castes in India during the 19th century.

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    The document is a worksheet that contains questions about women's caste and reforms in India. It includes multiple choice and true/false questions about the Brahmo Samaj religious reform movement, the banning of sati, and people who established important institutions like widows' homes. It also contains a short passage from Rammohun Roy advocating against sati, and questions about that passage. The worksheet seems to be assessing knowledge about social reforms that aimed to improve conditions for women and lower castes in India during the 19th century.

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    Chapter-9 (women caste and reforms)

    .Choose the correct option.

    (i) The Brahmo Samaj was founded by


    (a) Dayanand Saraswati
    (b) Raja Rammohun Roy
    (c) Vivekananda
    (d) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

    (ii) The practice of Sati was banned in the year


    (a) 1800
    (b) 1821
    (c) 1827
    (d) 1829

    (iii) A widow home was established at Poona by


    (a) Tarabai Shinde
    (b) Pandita Ramabai
    (c) Mumtaz Ali
    (d) Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

    (iv) Peasants and artisans were referred to as


    (a) Vaishyas
    (b) Shudras
    (c) Untouchables
    (d) Kshatriyas

    (v) Periyar founded


    (a) Self Respect Movement
    (b) Temple Entry Movement
    (c) Paramhans Mandali
    (d) Dalit Movement

    (vi) Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College was opened by


    (a) Khizr Khan
    (b) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    (c) Sayyid Ahmed Khan
    (d) Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

    Read the following and answer the questions that follow:


    “We first tie them down to the pile”
    Rammohun Roy published many pamphlets to spread his ideas. Some of these were written as a dialogue between the
    advocate and critic of a traditional practice. Here is one such dialogue on sati:

    An advocate of Sati:
    Women are by nature of inferior understanding, without resolution, unworthy of trust … Many of them, on the death of their
    husbands, become desirous of accompanying them; but to remove every chance of their trying to escape from the blazing fire, in
    burning them we first tie them down to the pile.

    Opponent of Sati:
    When did you ever afford them a fair opportunity of exhibiting their natural capacity? How then can you accuse them of want of
    understanding? If, after instruction in knowledge and wisdom, a person cannot comprehend or retain what has been taught him,
    we may consider him as deficient; but if you do not educate women how can you see them as inferior.
    Questions:
    (a) What notions did the society have in favour of the practice of sati?
    (b) What arguments did the reformers put against the practice of sati?

    State True (T) or False (F).

    (i) When the British captured Bengal they framed many new laws to regulate the rules regarding marriage,
    adoption, inheritance of property, etc. ___
    (ii) Social reformers had to discard the ancient texts in order to argue for reform in social practices. ____
    (iii) Begums of Bhopal played a notable role in promoting education among women. ____
    (iv) Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country. ____
    (v) The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in1829. ____
    (vi) Rammohun Roy was well versed in Sanskrit, Persian and several other Indian and Europeon languages. ____

    Fill in the blanks.

    i. The brahmo samaj was founded by ______________________.


    ii. In __________, sati was banned.
    iii. ________________ founded a widows’ home at Poona.
    iv. Peasants and artisans such as weavers and potters referred to as ______.
    v. ___________ founded the Self Respect Movement.
    vi. The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875 at Aligarh, later became
    the _______________________.
    vii. According to the Child Marriage Restraint Act no man below the age of ___ and woman below the age of
    _____ could marry.
    viii. ________________ were an important untouchable caste of present-day Andhra Pradesh.

    Q3. Which social reformer was popularly called as Periyar?

    CHAPTER-9 ( Public Facilities)

    1. identify the figure below, which pollution is caused by this

    (i) Soil (ii)Noise (iii) Air (iv)Water

    2. An individual who buys goods for personal use and not for resale is

    (i) Owners (ii) Consumer (iii)Producer (iv) Investors


    3. Identify what is shown in the figure

    (i) textile mill in Jaipur (ii) textile mill in Jamshedpur

    (iii) textile mill in Ahmadabad (iv) textile mill in Raipur

    4. Equity in the schooling facilities available to all children is an important aspect of

    a. Right to safety b. Right to life c. Right to education d. Right to school

    5. Mumbai’s suburban railway is well-functioning public transport system. It is the densest route in the world,
    attending to ____ passengers daily.

    (i) 45 lakh (ii) 65 lakh (iii)20 lakh (iv) 57 lakh

    6. Match the following:

    Column A Column B
    (i) Polio (a) Public facilities
    (ii) Cholera (b) Sulabh
    (iii) Basic Needs (c) Water-borne disease
    (iv) Sanitation (d) Preventable disease

    7. Mention public facilities?


    8. Why do you think there are so few cases of private water supply in the world?
    9. Give a brief account of the public water supply in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

    10. State true or false:

    1. 99% of Indian households have access to safe drinking water.


    2. Right to water, health and education are a part of the Right to Life.
    3. The situation of water crisis is worse in urban areas than rural areas.
    4. Public facilities relate to people’s basic needs.
    .

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