Assertion [A]: Modern education played an important role in the rise of reform movements. Reason [R]: Western education introduced ideas of liberty, equality and nationalism.
Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is the correct explanation of [A]
The socio-religious reform movements of nineteenth-century India were led largely by people who had received modern English education.
Assertion [A] is true: leaders such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the founders of the Prarthana Samaj and many others were products of modern education, and it was this educated middle class that questioned sati, caste rigidity, child marriage and superstition.
Reason [R] is true: Western education brought Indians into contact with the ideas of liberty, equality, rationalism and nationalism found in European thought.
These very ideas gave the educated reformers the yardstick by which they judged existing social practices, so [R] directly explains why modern education gave rise to reform movements.
Both [A] and [R] are true, and [R] is the correct explanation of [A] option is correct.
Important Questions from Socio - Religious Reform Movements in the 19th and 20th CE India
- The Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-Seeking Society) was set up by
Where is Rajasthan, the printing press 'Vedic Yantralaya' was established?
Pick out the association for women which was the first to be founded by the women, from the following.
In 1930, led a satyagraha for the rights of untouchables' entry to the Kalaram temple at Nasik.
Who founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth - Seeking Society)?
