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Which of the following statements are true about Temple Entry Movement?

(i) Temple Entry Movement in India initiated in 1920s, was a social reform movement.

(ii) It aimed to challenge the discriminatory practice of denying temple entry to lower caste members.

(iii) It saw its first major struggle in the Vaikom Satyagraha in 1924.

(iv) Gandhi led the 1924 Vaikom Satyagraha.

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The correct answer is

(i), (ii) and (iii) are true

The Temple Entry Movement fought the exclusion of so-called lower castes from Hindu temples and the roads around them.

Statement (i) is true: the movement took organised shape in the 1920s as a social reform movement against untouchability.

Statement (ii) is true: its aim was to end the discriminatory practice that denied temple entry, and even the use of temple approach roads, to lower caste people.

Statement (iii) is true: its first major struggle was the Vaikom Satyagraha of 1924-25 in Travancore, where E.V. Ramasamy also took part and earned the title Vaikom Veerar.

Statement (iv) is false: the Vaikom Satyagraha was led by T.K. Madhavan, K.P. Kesava Menon and George Joseph; Gandhi only supported it and visited Vaikom in 1925 to negotiate. So only (i), (ii) and (iii) are true.

(i), (ii) and (iii) are true option is correct.

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