women caste extra questions

1.      Describe the condition of women in the earlier days?

Ans; a) Women had to face many social evils like sati,child marriage, polygamy,female infanticide,devdasi ,purda system, and illiteracy .

b) They could not do marriage with their choice.

c) Right to property was also denied to them.

2. What was ‘sati’?

Ans; 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” meaning virtuous women.

3.Most of the parents in early time were lukewarm to sending their girls to schools. Why?

Ans; a) Most parents were  not ready to  sending their girls to school because they feared that schools would take girls away from home, prevent them from doing their domestic duties.

b)      Moreover, girls had to travel through public places in order to reach school.

c)       Many people felt that this would have a corrupting influence on them. They felt that the girls should stay away from public spaces.

3.      Describe the contribution of the following towards the upliftment of women.

a)      Raja rammohun roy b) Ishwer Chandra Vidyasagar c) pandita rama bai

5 Give a few examples of educated women and the impact they had on society.

Ans; 1. Muslim women like the Begums of Bhopal played a notable role in promoting education among women. They founded a primary school for girls at Aligarh.

2. Another remarkable women Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta.  

 3.  . Tarabia Sinde:- a women educated at home at Poona, published a book, Stripurushtulna, ( A comparison between women and Men), criticizing the social differences between men and women.

 5. Pandita Ramabai:- A great scholar of Sanskrit,  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 husband’s relatives.  

6. How did new opportunities open up for the people of the lower caste under the British?  

Ans; a) During the course of the nineteenth century, Christian missionaries began setting upØ schools for tribal groups and “lower” – caste children.    b) There was work in the factories that were coming up, and jobs in municipalities.  

c) There were new demands of labour –drains had to be dug, roads, laid, buildingsØ constructed, and cities cleaned.   

d)     Some also went to work implantations in Assam, Mauritius, Trinidad and Indonesia