Q. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ was written by_________.

(A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

(B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Mahatma Gandhi

(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer: (A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Q. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ is a sacred book of _________.

(A) Prarthana Samaj

(B) Theosophical Society

(C) Brahmo Samaj

(D) Arya Samaj

Answer:(D) Arya Samaj

Q. Which among the following organizations supported Shuddhi movement?

(A) Prarthana Samaj

(B) Dev Samaj

(C) Brahmo Samaj

(D) Arya Samaj

Answer:(D) Arya Samaj

Q. Who of the following said, ‘good Government is no substitute for self-Government’?

(A) Ravindranath Tagore

(B) Swami Dayananda

(C) Swami Vivekananda

(D) Lokmanya Tilak

Answer:(B) Swami Dayananda

Q. Who amongst the following first used the word ‘Swaraj’ and accepted Hindi as the national language?

(A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(B) Swami Vivekananda

(C) Swami Dayanand

(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer:(C) Swami Dayanand

Q. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj’?

(A) M.G. Ranade

(B) M.G. Chandrakar

(C) Tilak

(D) Atmaram Pandurang

Answer:(D) Atmaram Pandurang

Q. Who was the chief director of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra?

(A) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

(B) Pandit Ramabai

(C) M.G. Ranade

(D) R.G. Bhandarkar

Answer:(C) M.G. Ranade

Q. Who among the following was the founder of ‘Dev Samaj’?

(A) Ram Krishna Paramhansa

(B) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

(C) Dadabhai Naoroji

(D) Vallabhbhai Patel

Answer: (B) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

Q. In 1873 who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj?

(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(B) Shiv Nath Shastri

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D)None of the above

Answer:(C) Jyotiba Phule

Q. Which one of the following was the author of ‘Gulamgiri’?

(A) Periyar

(B) Mahatma Gandhi

(C) Jyotiba Phule

(D) B.R. Ambedkar

Answer:(C) Jyotiba Phule

Q. Satya Shodhak Movement was launched by________.

(A) T.N. Nair

(B) Jyotiba Phule

(C) B.R. Ambedkar

(D) Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj

Answer:(B) Jyotiba Phule

Q. Which of the following organizations was established by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule?

(A) Mahajan Sabha

(B) Satya Shodhak Samaj

(C) Sir Narayan Sabha

(D) Gopal Mandal

Answer:(B) Satya Shodhak Samaj

Q. The Civil Marriage Act of 1872 had sought to curb the practice of child marriage by placing the minimum age of girls at_________.

(A)14 years

(B) 16 years

(C) 18 years

(D) None of these

Answer:(A)14 years

Q. Who among the following had played an important role in passing the Native Marriage Act of 1872?

(A) Shyam Chandra Das

(B) Keshav Chandra Sen

(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Devendra Nath Tagore

Answer:(B) Keshav Chandra Sen

Q. What did the Act V of 1843 make illegal?

(A) Slavery

(B) Sati

(C) Infanticide

(D) Child marriage

Answer:(A) Slavery

Q. Who among the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalized?

(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(B) M.G. Ranade

(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(D) Annie Besant

Answer:(C) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Q. The name of D.K. Karve of Western India figures in the context of which of the following?

(A) Widow Remarriage

(B) Women Education

(C)  Infanticide

(D) Sati Pratha

Answer:(B) Women Education

Q. In which year ‘The Age of Consent Act’ was passed?

(A) 1905

(B) 1881

(C) 1891

(D) 1856

Answer:(C) 1891

Q. The Greatest Parsi Social reformer of the 19th century was__________.

(A) Behramji M. Mallabari

(B) Navalji Tata

(C) Sir Rustom Behramji

(D) Sir Jamshedji

Answer:(A) Behramji M. Mallabari

Q. The campaign for widow remarriage in Maharashtra was led by_________.

(A) Dadabhai Naoroji

(B) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

(C)  B.M. Malabari

(D) Vishnu Parashuram Pandit

Answer:(D) Vishnu Parashuram Pandit

Q. Which reformer of Maharashtra is also known ‘Lokhitvadi’?

(A) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

(B) Pandit Ramabai

(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(D) M.G. Ranade

Answer:(A) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

Q. Who was the founder of Radha Swami Satsang?

(A) Swami Shraddhananda

(B) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri

(C) Shivdayal Sahab

(D) Haridas Swami

Answer:(C) Shivdayal Sahab

Q. The Bengali leader who opposed socio-religious reforms and supported orthodoxy was___________.

(A) Hemchandra De

(B) Hemchandra Biswas

(C) Nemisadhan Bose

(D) Radhakant Deb

Answer:(D) Radhakant Deb

Q. Satya Shodhak Samaj organized________.

(A) A peasant movement in Punjab

(B) An anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

(C) A temple-entry movement in Gujarat

(D) A movement for upliftment of tribals in Bihar

Answer:(B) An anti-caste movement in Maharashtra

Q. Whose main aim was to uplift the backward classes?

(A) Ram Krishna Mission

(B) Arya Samaj

(C) Satya Shodhak Samaj

(D) Prarthana Samaj

Answer:(C) Satya Shodhak Samaj

Q. ‘Servants of India Society’ was founded by

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

(c) Dadabhai Naoroji

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: (b) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q. In which year Servants of India Society was founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale?

(a) 1902

(b) 1903

(c) 1904

(d) 1905

Answer: (d) 1905

Q. MC Setalvad, BN Rao and Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer were distinguished member of

(a) Swaraj Party

(b) All India National Liberal Federation

(c) Madras Labour Union

(d) Servants of India Society

Answer: (d) Servants of India Society

Q. Who is called the father of ‘Indian Renaissance?

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(b) Dayananda Saraswati

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Answer: (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern India’?

(a) Ram Mohan Roy

(b) Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) WC Bonnerjee

Answer: (a) Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Who is considered as the prophet of Nationalism?

(a) MK Gandhi

(b) Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Rabindranath Tagore

(d) Dayananda Saraswati

Answer: (b) Ram Mohan Roy

Q. 7. The title ‘Raja’ was conferred on Ram Mohan Roy by the Mughal Emperor

(a) Jahandar Shah

(b) Muhammad Shah

(c) Akbar Shah II

(d) Bahadur Shah Zafar

Answer: (c) Akbar Shah II

Q. In which languages Raja Ram Mohan Roy was proficient?

(a) Sanskrit, Arabic, English

(b) Persian, French, Latin

(c) Greek and Hebrew

(d) All of the above

Answer: (d) All of the above

Q. In 1809, Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote ‘Gift to Monotheists’ in which he put forward the idea that people must worship a single God. This was written in

(a) English

(b) Persian

(c) Bengali

(d) Arabic

Answer: (b) Persian

Q. In 1830, Raja Ram Mohan Roy was appointed as ambassador of the Mughal Empire by which of the following king to convince the British Government for welfare of India

(a) Muhammad Shah

(b) Farrukhsiyar

(c) Husain Ali Khan

(d) Akbar Shah II

Answer: (d) Akbar Shah II

Q. The first society founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy was

(a) Brahmo Samaj

(b) Atmiya Sabha

(c) Brahmo Sabha

(d) Tattwabodhini Sabha

Answer: (b) Atmiya Sabha

Q. Which one among the following was a newspaper founded and edited by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?

(a) The Calcutta Gazette

(b) Mirat-ul Akbar

(c) Harijan

(d) The Bharat Mihir

Answer: (b) Mirat-ul Akbar

Q. Brahmo Samaj was founded by

(a) CR Das

(b) Mahatma Gandhi

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Answer: (c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Brahmo Samaj was founded in the Year of

(a) 1827

(b) 1829

(c) 1828

(d) 1830

Answer: (c) 1828

Q. The Brahmo Samaj was based on the twin pillars of

(a) Reasons and Humanism

(b) Humanism and Vedas

(c) Reason, Vedas and Upanishad

(d) None of the above

Answer: (a) Reasons and Humanism

Q. Who among the following immediately succeeded Ram Mohan Roy as the head of the Brahmo Samaj?

(a) Debendranath Tagore

(b) Akshay Kumar Datta

(c) Keshab Chandra Sen

(d) Shibnath Shastri

Answer: (a) Debendranath Tagore

Q. After the death of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj split into two sections; Who were the leaders of the two sections respectively?

(a) Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath Tagore

(b) Radhakanta Deb and Debendranath Tagore

(c) Keshab Chandra Sen and Radhakanta Deb

(d) Debendranath Tagore and Radhakanta Deb

Answer: (a) Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath Tagore

Q. Who among the following was appointed as the First Secretary of Brahmo Sabha?

(a) Chandrasekhar Deb

(b) Tarachand Chakravarti

(c) Alexander Duff

(d) Dwarkanath Tagore

Answer: (b) Tarachand Chakravarti

Q. Who among the following established the Calcutta Unitarian Committee?

(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(c) Keshab Chandra Sen

(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer: (a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Which one of the following social reformers strongly opposed Jury Act of 1826?

(a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Mahadev Govind Ranade

(d) Rajnarayan Basu

Answer: (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Amongst the following who cooperated with Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the implementation of his educational programmes?

(a) William Jones

(b) David Hare

(c) Henry Derozio

(d) Dwarkanath Tagore

Answer: (b) David Hare

Q. The Samadhi of Raja Ram Mohan Roy is in

(a) Kolkata

(b) Patna

(c) Bristol, England

(d) Canada

Answer: (c) Bristol, England

Q. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj?

(a) Atmaram Pandurang

(b) Tilak

(c) Annie Besant

(d) Rashbehari Ghosh

Answer: (a) Atmaram Pandurang

Q. Who was the Chief Director of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra?

(a) RG Bhandarkar

(b) MG Ranade

(c) Pandita Ramabai

(d) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

Answer: (b) MG Ranade

Q. Which one among the following was not a demand of the Prarthana Samaj?

(a) Women education

(b) Widow remarriage

(c) Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls

(d) Abolition of untouchability

Answer: (c) Raising the age of marriage for boys and girls

Q. The year in which Arya Samaj was founded

(a) 1865

(b) 1870

(c) 1875

(d) 1880

Answer: (c) 1875

Q. Which of the following is responsible for the revival of Vedas?

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(b) Ramanuja

(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

(d) Swami Vivekananda

Answer: (c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Q. Who gave the slogan ‘Back to Vedas’?

(a) Lala Hansraj

(b) Pandit Guru Dutt

(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

(d) Lala Lajpat Rai

Answer: (c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Q. According to Dayananda, which of the following was full of false teachings?

(a) Vedas

(b) Upanishadas

(c) Puranas

(d) All of these

Answer: (c) Puranas

Q. Who among the following is known as ‘Martin Luther’ of India?

(a) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Swami Shraddhanand

Answer: (a) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Q. Who was the author of ‘Satyarth Prakash?

(a) Swami Shraddhanand

(b) Maharshi DK Karve

(c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

(d) Pt Shri Ram Sharma Acharya

Answer: (c) Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Q. Who of the following said ‘Good Government is no substitute for Self-Government’?

(a) Lokmanya Tilak

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(c) Swami Dayananda

(d) Rabindranath Tagore

Answer: (c) Swami Dayananda

Q. The Arya Samajists split on the issue of

(a) Meat eating vs Vegetarianism

(b) Anglicised vs Sanskrit based education

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) Neither (a) nor (b)

Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)

Q. Arya Samaj criticised

(a) child marriage

(b) idolatry and polytheism

(c) the taboo on foreign travel

(d) All of the above

Answer: (d) All of the above

Q. The best representative of Neo-Hindustan in second half of the nineteenth century was

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(b) Swami Vivekananda

(c) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer: (b) Swami Vivekananda

Q. In which year did Swami Vivekananda participate the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago?

(a) 1893

(b) 1895

(c) 1897

(d) 1899

Answer: (a) 1893

Q. Who among the following famous reformers wrote the books Inyana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga?

(a) Swami Vivekananda

(b) Ranade

(c) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(d) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Answer: (a) Swami Vivekananda

Q. Who is the profounder of ‘Practical Vedanta’?

(a) Dayanand

(b) Raj Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Gandhijee

(d) Vivekananda

Answer: (d) Vivekananda

Q. Who was the founder of Ramakrishna Mission?

(a) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(b) MN Das Gupta

(c) Swami Vivekananda

(d) Swami Ranganathananda

Answer: (c) Swami Vivekananda

Q. Swami Vivekananda established Ramakrishna Mission in the year.

(a) 1861

(b) 1891

(c) 1893

(d) 1897

Answer: (d) 1897

Q. 65. “So long as the million live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who having been educated at their expense….”  Who said it?

(a) MK Gandhi

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Dayananda Saraswati

(d) Swami Vivekananda

Answer: (d) Swami Vivekananda

Q. Who founded the ‘Theosophical Society’?

(a) Madame HP Blavatsky

(b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Swami Vivekananda

Answer: (a) Madame HP Blavatsky

Q. The Theosophical Society was led by

(a) AO Hume

(b) Arthur Griffith

(c) Annie Besant

(d) Lord Dufferin

Answer: (c) Annie Besant

Q. Where was first Madrasa set up by the British in India?

(a) Madras

(b) Bombay

(c) Aligarh

(d) Calcutta

Answer: (d) Calcutta

Q. The main aim of Wahhabism was

(a) to get rid of Muslim society of dogmatism.

(b) to overthrow British.

(c) to counter Hinduism.

(d) to rejuvenate Muslim power in India.

Answer: (d) to rejuvenate Muslim power in India.

Q. The Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh was founded by

(a) Md Ali Jinnah

(b) Muhammad Ali

(c) Shaukat Ali

(d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Answer: (d) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

Q. ……… was the centre of the Aligarh movement.

(a) The Deoband School

(b) The Anglo-Oriental College

(c) Pir-Fakir Majlis

(d) The Khilafat Committee

Answer: (b) The Anglo-Oriental College

Q. ‘Darul Uloom was established by

(a) Maulana Shibli Nomani

(b) Maulavi Hussain Ahmed

(c) Maulavi Abdullah Chakralavi

(d) Maulana Ahmad Raza Khan

Answer: (b) Maulavi Hussain Ahmed

Q. The Deoband Movement in UP (United Provinces) started in the year

(a) 1900 AD

(b) 1888 AD

(c) 1885 AD

(d) 1866 AD

Answer: (d) 1866 AD

Q. Who among the following is known as the ‘Father of Muslim Renaissance’ in Bengal?

(a) Sir Syed Ahmad Khan

(b) Ameer Ali

(c) Nawab Salimullah Khan

(d) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan

Answer: (d) Nawab Abdul Latif Khan

Q. Which one of the following proclaimed himself to be the ‘Masin Al-Maud’ and ‘Incarnation of Krishna’?

(a) Title Mir

(b) Haji Shariatullah

(c) Syed Ahmad Khan

(d) Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani

Answer: (d) Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani

Q. The Greatest Parsi social reformer of the 19th century was

(a) Sir Jamshedji

(b) Sir Rustom Behramji

(c) Navalji Tata

(d) Behramji M Malabari

Answer: (d) Behramji M Malabari

Q. Who founded Rahanumai Mazdayasanan Sabha?

(a) Naoroji Furdunji

(b) Dadabhai Naoroji

(c) SS Bengali

(d) All of the above

Answer: (d) All of the above

Q. Whose main aim was to uplift the backward classes

(a) Prarthana Samaj

(b) Satyashodhak Samaj

(c) Arya Samaj

(d) Ramkrishna Mission

Answer: (b) Satyashodhak Samaj

Q. Who among the following social reformer started a society for the encouragement of widow remarriage in 1866 in Maharashtra?

(a) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

(b) Jyotirao Phule

(c) Vishnushastri Pandit

(d) Pandita Ramabai

Answer: (c) Vishnushastri Pandit

Q. Which one of the following was the author of ‘Gulamgiri’?

(a) BR Ambedkar

(b) Jyotirao Phule

(c) Mahatma Gandhi

(d) Periyar

Answer: (b) Jyotirao Phule

Q. Which social reformer’s wife started a girl school at Poona in 1851?

(a) Jyotirao Phule

(b) GM Deshmukh

(c) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

(d) None of the above

Answer: (a) Jyotirao Phule

Q. Which social reformer was popularly called as ‘Periyar’?

(a) EV Ramasamy Naicker

(b) CV Raman Pillai

(c) BR Ambedkar

(d) Jyotirao Phule

Answer: (a) EV Ramasamy Naicker

Q. Who was the founder of the Harijan Sevak Sangh?

(a) BG Tilak

(b) NM Lokhande

(c) MK Gandhi

(d) BR Ambedkar

Answer: (c) MK Gandhi