Social and religious reform movements MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Raja Ram Mohan Roy is closely associated with the campaign against Sati Pratha. His reformist efforts, writings and public advocacy helped build the case for the legal abolition of Sati in 1829 under Governor-General William Bentinck. Vivekananda is mainly linked with Vedanta and social awakening in the late nineteenth century. Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj and worked for Vedic reform. Govind Ranade was an important reformer in western India, but the abolition of Sati is especially connected with Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy is widely called the Father of Indian Renaissance because he led major social and religious reform in early nineteenth-century India, including campaigns against sati and support for modern education and rational debate. Keshab Chandra Sen was an important later Brahmo reformer, but he was not given this title. Debendra Nath Tagore strengthened the Brahmo Samaj after Roy's phase. Ravindra Nath Tagore was a major literary and cultural figure of a later period, not the usual answer to this reform-era title.

R. G. Bhandarkar and Atmaram Pandurang were associated with Prarthana Sabha, a reform organisation in western India that worked for religious and social reform. Home Rule League belonged to the political movement for self-government led by figures such as Tilak and Annie Besant. Atmiya Sabha is linked with Raja Rammohan Roy's early reform activity in Bengal. Ramakrishna Mission was founded later by Swami Vivekananda and followed a different religious-social reform tradition. The organisation matching both named reformers is Prarthana Sabha.