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Social reforms o Rammohun Roy F 0F C
o Emancipation of women F 0F C The condition of the lower-caste women was better than the upper-
caste
women.
F 0F C Purdah + restrictions on employment. F 0F C Widows could not remarry + Sati. F 0F C Property rights were not there. F 0F C The movement for liberation of women got a stimulus with the rise
of the
national movement in the 20th century. :->They participated in the Home Rule
movement and the Partition of Bengal.
F 0F C Women became ministers and parliamentary secretaries in the 1937
election.
F 0F C All India Women Conference was formed in 1927. F 0F C Post-independence: Article 14; 15; The Hindu Succession Act,
1956; Hindu
Marriage Act, 1955; DPSP: Equal pay for equal work.
o Struggle against Caste
F 0F C Mahatma Gandhi:-> 1932
Founded the All India Harijan Sangh. -> His campaign for ‘root and branch removal of untouchability’ was based on the grounds of humanism & reason. He argued that there was no sanction for UT in the Hindu shashtras. :-> But even
if shashtras approved of UT then too it should be ignored for it would then be going against human dignity. :-> Truth – Gandhiji said – could not be confined within the covers of a book. F 0F C Jyotiba Phule :-> Second half of the 19th century
Regarded modern education as the most important weapon for the liberation of
the lower castes. :->Led a lifelong struggle against upper-caste domination.
F 0F C B R Ambedkar:->Organised All India Scheduled Castes Federation. F 0F C Sri Narayan Guru :-> Led lifelong struggle against caste system in
Kerala.
F 0F C Temple entry movements in 1924 (KP Kesava Menon) and 1931 (K
Kelappan)
F 0F C The Constitution :-> Abolishes untouchability :-> It forbids any
restrictions on the
use of tanks, wells and bathing ghats, etc. :-> DPSC says “state shall strive to
promote the welfare of people by securing a social order in which justice, social
economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national life.”
