General Knowledge Modern India (Pre-Congress Phase) Socio - Religious Reform Movements in the 19th and 20th CE India
Read statements (A) and (B) on the social condition of women during the 19th century, and choose the correct option.
Statement (A): Pandita Ramabai founded a widows’ home at Poona to provide shelter to widows who had been treated badly by their husbands’ relatives.
Statement (B): She felt that Hinduism was oppressive towards women.
1
(A) is true but (B) is false.
2
(A) is false but (B) is true.
3
Both (A) and (B) are true; and (B) is the precursor to (A).
4
Both (A) and (B) are true but there is no relationship between the two statements.