NCERT Solutions Class 8th History Chapter – 7 Women, Caste and Reform
| Text Book | NCERT |
| Class | 8th |
| Subject | Social Science (History) |
| Chapter | 7th |
| Chapter Name | Women, Caste and Reform |
| Category | Class 8th Social Science (History) |
| Medium | English |
| Source | Last Doubt |
| NCERT Solutions Class 8th History Chapter – 7 Women, Caste and Reform Question & Answer- What is caste reform?, What is women and reform?, What two reforms were women in?, Why did women want to reform?, What reforms were made for women?, What was the role of women in the reform movement?, Who started the women’s reform?, Who is women reformers?, What caused the age of reform?, Who was the reformer of women’s rights?, When did women get rights?, What is moral reform?, When did women start working? |
NCERT Solutions Class 8th History Chapter – 7 Women, Caste and Reform
Chapter – 7
Women, Caste and Reform
Question Answer
| Question 1. What social ideas did the following people support. Rammohun Roy Dayanand Saraswati Veerasalingam Pantulu Jyotirao Phule Pandita Ramabai Periyar Mumtaz Ali Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar Ans – (i) Ban of Sati (ii) Widow Marriag (iii) Widow Remarriage (iv) Equality amongst castes (v) Women’s education (vi) Equality to untouchables (vii) Women’s education (viii) Widow remarriage |
| Question 2. State whether True or False – 1. James Mill was a severe critic of the Orientalists. 2. The 1854 Despatch on education was in favour of English being introduced as a medium of higher education in India. 3. Mahatma Gandhi thought that promotion of literacy was the most important aim of education. 4. Rabindranath Tagore felt that children ought to be subjected to strict discipline. Ans – 1. True 2. True 3. False 4. False |
| Question 3. How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws? Ans – Ram Mohan Roy was well versed in Sanskrit, Persian and several other Indian and European languages. He tried to show through his writings that the practice of widow burning had no sanction in ancient texts. The strategy adopted by Ram Mohan Roy was used by later reformers as well. Whenever they wished to challenge a practice that seemed harmful, they tried to find a verse or sentence in the ancient sacred texts that supported their point of view. They then suggested that the practice, as it existed at present, was against early tradition. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar used the ancient texts to suggest that widows could remarry. |
| Question 4. What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school? Ans – There were the following reasons for people to not send their girls to school a. They feared that schools would take girls away from home.b. b. Schools will prevent them from doing their domestic duties. c. Girls had to travel through public places in order reach school. d. Travelling to schools would have a corrupting influence on them. e. They felt that girls should stay away from public spaces. |
| Question 5. Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so, for what reasons? Ans – The Christian missionaries were attacked by the people, as they were involved in the religious conversion of poor and tribal people, that is, converting a Hindu into a Christian. These missionaries had also set up schools for tribal and poor kids to learn. However, the larger section of people who looked down upon the poor people and tribal people did not like the idea of exposing tribal people to education. Hence, the attacks on Christian missionaries started. |
| Question 6. In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came from castes that were regarded as “low”? Ans – The poor from the villages and small towns, many of them from low castes, began moving to the cities where there was a new demand for labour. Some also went to work in plantations in Assam, Mauritius, Trinidad and Indonesia. The poor and the people from low castes saw this as an opportunity to get away from the oppressive hold that upper-caste landowners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered. |
| Question 7. How did Jyotirao, and other reformer justify their criticism of caste inequality in society? Ans – Jyotirao Phule, who stood against caste inequality, believed that the upper castes being ‘Aryans’, are not the original inhabitants of their lands. He put forward his opinions by telling people that the land has always belonged to the lower-caste people and that the Aryans were outsiders. He looked forward to the golden age when lower-caste people can live peacefully without the intrusion of upper castes. |
| Question 8. Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves? Ans – Jyotirao Phule wrote his book, ‘Gulamgiri’ in 1873. The title of the book means ‘Slavery.’ From 1861 to 1865, the American Civil war was being fought. The Civil War began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. Phule dedicated his book to all those Americans who had fought to free slaves, thus establishing a link between the conditions of the “lower” castes in India and the black slaves in America. |
| 9. What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement? Ans – In 1927, Ambedkar started a temple entry movement, in which his Mahar caste followers participated. Brahman priests were outraged when the Dalits used water from the temple tank. His aim was to make everyone see the power of caste prejudices within society. |
| Question 10. Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker critical of the national movement? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way? Ans – Jyoti Rao Phule and Ramaswamy Naicker both were critical of the national movement, as they thought that there were no differences between anti-colonialists and the colonialists. Phule thought that the upper-caste people who wanted to fight against the Britishers will want to rule once the Britishers leave. Phule was always against the upper caste people as he called them the ‘outsiders.’ Naicker was a part of the Congress party, and his experiences led him to believe that the party was not free from the taint of casteism. So, he was reluctant to take part in the anti-British national movement that was not concerned about creating a caste-less society. |
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