Some extra questions
Q1. What was the condition of women in the earlier
days?
- Women were married at an early age.
- Women were forced to burn themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands. Woman who died in this manner, whether willing or otherwise, were called “sati”.
- Women’s right to property were also restricted
- Women had no access to education.
- It believed that if a woman was educated, she would become a widow.
Q2. Why
in the earlier days most parents were apprehensive of sending their girls to
schools?
1. They feared that schools would take girls away
from home, prevent them from doing
their domestic duties.
2. Moreover, girls had to travel through public
places in order to reach school.
3. Many people felt that this would have a
corrupting influence on them.
4. They
felt that the girls should stay away from public spaces.
Q3.
Describe the contribution of the following towards the upliftment of women.
Raja Ram
Mohan Roy: -
1. He
founded a reform association known as the Brahmo sabha (later known as the
Brahmo samaj) in Calcutta .
2. Due to his efforts the evil practice of sati
was banned in 1829 by the British.
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar:
Ishwarchandra Vidasagar, used the ancient texts to suggest that widows
could remarry. His suggestion was
adopted by British officials and a law was passed in 1856 permitting widow
remarriage.
Pandita
Ramabai:-
A great scholar of Sanskrit felt that Hinduism
was oppressive towards women,
and wrote a book about the miserable lives of
upper –caste Hindu women.
She founded a widows’ home at Poona
to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husbands’
relatives.
- Periyar:-
1. An outspoken critic of Hindu
scriptures, especially the codes of Manu, the ancient lawgiver, and the Bhagavad Gita and the
Ramayan.
2. He said that these texts had
been used to establish the authority of Brahmans over lower castes and the
domination of men over women
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