MCQ on Social and Religious Movement in Modern India

Q. Who was the leading envoy of renaissance movement in India?
(A) Devendranath Tagore
(B) Keshav Chandra Sen
(C) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
(D) Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Who is considered as the Prophet of Nationalism?
(A) M.K. Gandhi
(B) Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Dayanand Saraswati

Q. Which of the following class has been influenced by Western civilization firstly?
(A) Noble landlords
(B) New rich merchants
(C) Educated Hindu middle class
(D) Educated Muslims

Q. Who among the following greatmen is called the ‘Father of Indian Renaissance’?
(A) Vivekananda
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(D) Dayanand Saraswati

Q. Who is considered as the first ‘Modern Man’ of India?
(A) Nana Saheb
(B) A.O. Hume
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Swami Vivekanand

Q. The First Society founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy was______.
(A) Brahmo Samaj
(B) Atmiya Sabha
(C) Brahma Sabha
(D) Tatvabodhini Sabha

Q. Who among the following was the founder of Atmiya Sabha?
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(C) Swami Vivekanand
(D) Aurobindo Ghosh

Q. Brahmo Samaj was founded in the year of _______.
(A) 1827
(B) 1829
(C) 1831
(D) 1828

Q. Raja Ram Mohan Roy established Brahma Samaj in______.
(A) 1816 A.D.
(B) 1820 A.D.
(C) 1828 A.D.
(D) 1830 A.D.

Q. Brahmo Samaj was founded by_____.
(A) Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Swami Vivekananda
(C) Keshav Chandra Sen
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Who gave Ram Mohan Roy the title of ‘Raja’?
(A) Lord William Bentinck
(B) Akbar II
(C) The followers of Brahmo Samaj
(D) Intellectuals who opposed Sati Practice

Q. The Samadhi of Raja Ram Mohan Roy is in______.
(A) Kolkata
(B) Patna
(C) Bristol, England
(D) Canada

Q. Who is regarded as the father of Indian Nationalism?
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Surendranath Banerjee
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. The Brahmo Samaj is based on the principle of ______.
(A) Monetheism
(B) Polytheism
(C) Atheism
(D) Monism

Q. Which of the following were not protested by Raja Ram Mohan Roy?
(A) Child marriage
(B) Sati system
(C) Western education
(D) Idolatry

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

Q. The best representative of NeoHindustan in second half of the nineteenth century was______.
(A) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(B) Swami Vivekanand
(C) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Vivekananda attended the ‘Parliament of World’s Religious’ held at Chicago in ______.
(A) 1872
(B) 1890
(C) 1893
(D) 1901

Q. When did Swami Vivekananda deliver his speech in ‘World Religious Conference’ in Chicago?
(A) 1863
(B) 1892
(C) 1893
(D) 1894

Q. Who among the following represented India at the world Parliament of Religious at Chicago in 1893?
(A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Who among the following famous reformers wrote the books Jnyana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga?
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Ranade
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Ram Krishna Paramhansa

Q. Who was the founder of Ram Krishna Mission?
(A) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(B) M.N. Das Gupta
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) Swami Rangnath Nanda

Q. Who founded ‘Ram Krishna Mission’ in 1897 A.D.?
(A) Vivekananda
(B) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(C) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(D) Shyamji Krishna Verma

Q. Swami Vivekananda established Ram Krishna Mission in the year______.
(A) 1861
(B) 1891
(C) 1893
(D) 1897

Q. The Ram Krishna Mission was founded by Swami Vivekananda in the year _______.
(A) 1886
(B) 1892
(C) 1898
(D) 1897

Q. Who was Sharadamani?
(A) Wife of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Wife of Ram Krishna Paramahansa
(C) Mother of Vivekananda
(D) Daughter of Keshab Chandra Sen

Q. Dayanand Saraswati founded_______.
(A) Brahmo Samaj
(B) Arya Samaj
(C) Prathana Samaj
(D) Bahujan Samaj

Q. The year Arya Samaj founded______.
(A) 1865
(B) 1870
(C) 1875
(D) 1880

Q. Who of the following is responsible for the revival of Vedas?
(A) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(B) Ramanuja
(C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(D) Swami Vivekananda

Q. Who had said, ‘Let’s go back to the Vedas’?
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Dayanand Saraswati
(C) Vivekananda
(D) Ram Krishna Paramhansa

Q. Who among the following is known as ‘Martin Luther of India’?
(A) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) Swami Shraddhanand

Q. ‘Satyarth Prakash’ was written by______.
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Mahatma Gandhi
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) Swami Dayanand Saraswati

Q. The writer of ‘Satyartha Prakasha’ is _______.
(A) Swami Vivekananda
(B) Swami Nishchalananda
(C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
(D) Swami Haridas

‘Q. Satyarth Prakash’ is a sacred book of _______.
(A) Arya Samaj
(B) Brahmo Samaj
(C) Theosophical Society
(D) Prarthana Samaj

Q. Which among the following organizations supported Shuddhi movement?
(A) Arya Samaj
(B) Brahmo Samaj
(C) Dev Samaj
(D) Prarthana Samaj

Q. Who of the following said, ‘good Government is no substitute for self-Government’?
(A) Lokmanya Tilak
(B) Swami Vivekananda
(C) Swami Dayananda
(D) Ravindranath Tagore

Q. Who amongst the following first used the word ‘Swaraj’ and accepted Hindi as the national language?
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Swami Dayanand
(C) Swami Vivekananda
(D) Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Q. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj’?
(A) Atmaram Pandurang
(B) Tilak
(C) M.G. Chandrakar
(D) M.G. Ranade

Q. Who was the founder of ‘Prarthana Samaj’?
(A) Atmaram Pandurang
(B) Tilak
(C) M.G. Chandrakar
(D) M.G. Ranade

Q. Who was the chief director of Prarthana Samaj in Maharashtra?
(A) R.G. Bhandarkar
(B) M.G. Ranade
(C) Pandit Ramabai
(D) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

Q. Who among the following was the founder of ‘Dev Samaj’?
(A) Vallabhbhai Patel
(B) Dadabhai Naoroji
(C) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri
(D) Ram Krishna Paramhansa

Q. In 1873 who founded Satya Shodhak Samaj?
(A) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(B) Jyotiba Phule
(C) Shiv Nath Shastri
(D) None of the above

Q. Which one of the following was the author of ‘Gulamgiri’?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar
(B) Jyotiba Phule
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Periyar

Q. Satya Shodhak Movement was launched by _______.
(A) Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) Jyotiba Phule
(D) T.N. Nair

Q. Which of the following organizations was established by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule?
(A) Gopal Mandal
(B) Sir Narayan Sabha
(C) Satya Shodhak Samaj
(D) Mahajan Sabha

Q. Whose main aim was to uplift the backward classes?
(A) Prarthana Samaj
(B) Satya Shodhak Samaj
(C) Arya Samaj
(D) Ram Krishna Mission

Q. Satya Shodhak Samaj organized______.
(A) A movement for upliftment of tribals in Bihar
(B) A temple-entry movement in Gujarat
(C) An anti-caste movement in Maharashtra
(D) A peasant movement in Punjab

Q. The Bengali leader who opposed socio-religious reforms and supported orthodoxy was_______.
(A) Radhakant Deb
(B) Nemisadhan Bose
(C) Hemchandra Biswas
(D) Hemchandra De

Q. Who was the founder of Radha Swami Satsang?
(A) Haridas Swami
(B) Shivdayal Sahab
(C) Shiv Narayan Agnihotri
(D) Swami Shraddhananda

Q. Which reformer of Maharashtra is also known ‘Lokhitvadi’?
(A) M.G. Ranade
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Pandit Ramabai
(D) Gopal Hari Deshmukh

Q. The campaign for widow remarriage in Maharashtra was led by ________.
(A) Vishnu Parashuram Pandit
(B) B.M. Malabari
(C) Gopal Hari Deshmukh
(D) Dadabhai Naoroji

Q. The Greatest Parsi Social reformer of the 19th century was_______.
(A) Sir Jamshedji
(B) Sir Rustom Behramji
(C) Navalji Tata
(D) Behramji M. Mallabari

Q. In which year ‘The Age of Consent Act’ was passed?
(A) 1856
(B) 1891
(C) 1881
(D) 1905

Q. His principle forte was social and religious reform. He relied upon legislation to do away with social ills and worked unceasingly for the eradication of child marriage, the purdah system. To encourage consideration of social problems on a national scale, he inaugurated the Indian National Social Conference, which for many years met for its annual sessions alongside the Indian National Congress?
Their reference in this passage is to_______.
(A) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(B) Behramji Merwanji Malabari
(C) Mahadev Govind Ranade
(D) B.R. Ambedkar

Q. During Indian Freedom Struggle, the National Social Conference was formed. What was the reason for its formation?
(A) Different social reform groups or organizations of Bengal region united to form a single body to discuss the issues of larger interest and to prepare appropriate petitions/representation to the Government
(B) Indian National Congress did not want to include social reforms in its deliberations and decided to form a separate body for such a purpose
(C) Behramji Malabari and M.G. Ranade decided to bring together all the social reform groups of the country under one organization
(D) None of statement (A), (B) and
(C) given above is correct in this context

Q. The name of D.K. Karve of Western India figures in the context of which of the following?
(A) Sati Pratha
(B) Infanticide
(C) Women Education
(D) Widow Remarriage

Q. Who among the following prominently fought for and got widow remarriage legalized?
(A) Annie Besant
(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) M.G. Ranade
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Q. Which of the following statements is not correct?
(A) In 1829, William Bentinck declared Sati System an offence by law
(B) The Government had passed an Act in 1856 under which Hindu widows could remarry
(C) Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded Arya Samaj in 1875
(D) Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the supporter of Sati System

Q. What did the Act V of 1843 make illegal?
(A) Child marriage
(B) Infanticide
(C) Sati
(D) Slavery

Q. Who among the following had played an important role in passing the Native Marriage Act of 1872?
(A) Devendra Nath Tagore
(B) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) Keshav Chandra Sen
(D) Shyam Chandra Das

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) 18 years
(C) 16 years
(D) None of these

Q. Consider the following passage.
Born in 1853 he was a Parsi from Western India. He was the editor of ‘Indian Spectator’ and ‘Voice of India’. He was a social reformer and was the chief crusader for the Age of Consent Act 1891.
Who is being described in the above paragraph?
(A) Dadabhai Naoroji
(B) B.M. Malabari
(C) B.P. Wadia
(D) Naoroji Furdon Ji

Q. What was the minimum marriageable age fixed under Sharda Act for boys and girls?
(A) 12 and 16
(B) 14 and 18
(C) 15 and 21
(D) 16 and 22

Q. Sharda Act related to______.
(A) Prevention of child marriage
(B) Prevention of intercaste marriage
(C) Prevention of widow marriage
(D) Prevention of tribal marriage

Q. Who founded the ‘Theosophical Society’?
(A) Madame H.P. Blavatsky
(B) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Swami Vivekananda

Q. The success of the Theosophical Society in India was mainly due to______.
(A) Annie Besant
(B) Colonel H.S. Alcott
(C) Sir William Crook
(D) M.M. Malviya

Q. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Brahma Samaj
(B) Swami Dayanand Saraswati – Arya Samaj
(C) Swami Vivekananda – Ram Krishna Mission
(D) Mahadev Govind Ranade – Theosophical Society

Q. Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(A) Theosophical Society – Annie Besant
(B) Ram Krishna Mission – Ram Krishna Paramhansa
(C) Brahmo Samaj – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) Arya Samaj – Dayanand Saraswati

Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) Prarthana Samaj – Dr. Atmaram Pandurang
(B) Atmiya Sabha – Debendra Nath Tagore
(C) Brahmo Samaj of India – Keshab Chandra Sen
(D) Radhaswami Satsang – Tulsi Ram

Q. Which one of the following is correctly matched?
(A) Brahmo Samaj of India – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(B) Tattvabodhini Sabha – Keshav Chandra Sen
(C) The Satya Shodhak Samaj – Devendra Nath Tagore
(D) The Servants of India Society – Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Q. M.C. Setalvad, B.N. Rao and Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer were distinguished members of the_______.
(A) Swaraj Party
(B) All India National Liberal Federation
(C) Madras Labour Union
(D) Servants of India Society

Q. ‘Servants of India Society’ was founded by_______.
(A) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(B) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
(C) Dadabhai Naoroji
(D) Lala Lajpat Rai

Q. Who was the founder of Bahujan Samaj?
(A) Sri Narayan Guru
(B) Mukund Rao Patil
(C) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(D) B.R. Shinde

Q. Who put the demand of right to enter into the temples that caused a terrible riot in Tirunevali in 1899?
(A) Okalinga
(B) Nadars
(C) Mahar
(D) Pali

Q. Who said that ‘If God were to tolerate untouchability, I would not recognize him as God at all’?
(A) B.R. Ambedkar
(B) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(C) Lala Lajpat Rai
(D) Mahatma Gandhi

Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
(A) A. Pandurang – Prarthana Samaj
(B) Dayanand Saraswati – Arya Samaj
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Adi Brahma Samaj
(D) Vivekananda – Ram Krishna Mission

Q. Who among the following social reformers was known for proficiency in the Sanskrit language?
(A) Dayanand Saraswati
(B) Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
(C) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(D) All of the above

Q. The women’s movement in India started largely under inspiration of_______.
(A) Padmabai Ranaday
(B) Annie Besant
(C) Sarojini Naidu
(D) Jyotiba Phule

Q. Which was common among Brahmo Samaj, Ram Krishna Mission and Arya Samaj?
(A) None of these three had a political mission, but they helped to develop a spirit of patriotism
(B) All the three originated from Bengal
(C) Founder of all the three was educated in England
(D) Founder of all the three took active part in politics

Q. Which of the following statement is not correct?
(A) Dr. Annie Besant was a Theosophist
(B) The International headquarter of Theosophical society is in Madras
(C) Swami Dayanand founded Arya Samaj
(D) Mahatma Gandhi was born in Gandhinagar

Q. ‘Dar-ul-Ulum’ was established by_______.
(A) Maulana Shibli Numani
(B) Maulavi Hussain Ahmad
(C) Maulavi Abdullah Chakralavi
(D) Maulana Ahmad Riza Khan

Q. The Deoband Movement in U.P. (United Province) started in the year ______.
(A) 1900 A.D.
(B) 1888 A.D.
(C) 1885 A.D.
(D) 1866 A.D.

Q. The Tarkeshwar Movement of 1924 in Bengal was against_______.
(A) Corruption in temples
(B) Violence
(C) Arrest of political leaders
(D) Communalism

Q. ‘Hali System’ concerned______.
(A) Bonded labour
(B) Exploitation of peasants
(C) Untouchability
(D) Illiteracy

Q. Which category of population were primarily attracted by Religious reform movements of the nineteenth century?

1. Intellectuals
2. Urban upper castes
3. Poor ordinariness class
4. Liberal princes

Choose your answer from given code.
(A) Only 1
(B) 1 and 2
(C) 1, 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2 and 4

Q. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding Brahmo Samaj?

1. It opposed idolatry.
2. It denied the need for a priestly class for interpreting the religious texts.
3. It popularized the doctrine that the Vedas are infallible.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.
(A) Only 1
(B) 1 and 2
(C) Only 3
(D) 1, 2 and 3

Q. Consider the following statements.

1. Arya Samaj was founded in 1835.
2. Lala Lajpat Rai opposed the appeal of Arya Samaj to the authority of Vedas in support of its social reform programme.
3. Under Keshab Chandra Sen, the Brahmo Samaj campaigned for women’s education.
4. Vinoba Bhave founded the Sarvodaya Samaj to work among refugees.

Which of these statements are correct?
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 2 and 3
(C) 2 and 4
(D) 3 and 4

Q. Which of the following Act was passed in 1856?

1. Religious Disabilities Act
2. Sati Prohibition Act
3. Hindu Widow Remarriage Act
4. Principle to grab state

Choose the correct option from the code given below.
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(C) 3 and 4
(D) 1, 2 and 4

Q. Read the following statements carefully.

1. Brahmo Samaj supported monotheism.
2. Arya Samaj contributed for the development of education.
3. Swami Vivekananda founded Ram Krishna Mission.

Answer on the basis of following code.
(A) 1, 2 and 3 are true
(B) 1 and 2 are true
(C) 1 and 3 are true
(D) 2 and 3 are true

Q. Consider the following statements.
Assertion (A): Socio-religious movements of the 19th century resulted in the modernization of India.
Reason (R): Rationalism, scientific temper and other such ideas which are the basis of modernization were at the core of the socio-religious movements.
Select the correct answer from the code given below.
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(A) (R) is true, but (A) is false
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

Q. Arrange the following in a chronological order.

1. Tulsidas
2. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
3. Swami Vivekananda
4. Dayanand Saraswati

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Q. Find the correct matches in List I and II in the alternatives given thereunder.
List-I
(a) Prarthana Samaj
(b) Brahmo Samaj
(c) Arya Samaj
(d) Ram Krishna Mission
List-II

1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Vivekananda
3. Dayanand Saraswati
4. Ranade
5. Ram Krishna Paramhansa

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the code given below the lists.
List-I
(a) Brahmo Samaj
(b) Manav Dharm Sabha
(c) Arya Samaj
(d) Nadwah-ul-Ulama
List-II

1. Mumbai
2. Surat
3. Kolkata
4. Lucknow

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Q. Match the following.
List-I
(a) Prarthana Samaj
(b) Ram Krishna Mission
(c) Satya Shodhak Samaj
(d) Muhammad-Anglo Oriental College Aligarh
List-II

1. Swami Vivekananda
2. Mahadev Govind Ranade
3. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
4. Jyotiba Phule

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Q. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List-I
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Keshav Chandra Sen
(c) Dayanand Saraswati
(d) Ram Krishna Paramhansa
List-II

1. Said that Brahmovad should be made the religion of the world.
2. Identified Hinduism with religion instituted in Vedas.
3. Emphasized that there areseveral ways to reach the God.
4. Purest form of Hinduism is contained in Upanishads.

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