Which of the following statements about Stree Purush Tulana are corre…

Which of the following statements about Stree Purush Tulana are correct?

(A) It was written by a Maharashtrian housewife, Tarabai Shinde.
(B) It was written in English to test the author's abilities in that language.
(C) It protested a double standard seen when a Brahmin widow was sentenced to death while no effort was made to find the baby's father.
(D) It created little stir when it was published.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 4

The correct answer is Option (4) → A and C only

(A) It was written by a Maharashtrian housewife, Tarabai Shinde. — Correct. Stree Purush Tulana, or Comparison of Men and Women, was written in 1882 by Tarabai Shinde, a Maharashtrian housewife.

(B) It was written in English to test the author's abilities in that language. — Incorrect. Writing in English to test her abilities is true of Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, who wrote Sultana's Dream for that reason. Tarabai Shinde wrote her book as a protest against a double standard.

(C) It protested a double standard seen when a Brahmin widow was sentenced to death while no effort was made to find the baby's father. — Correct. The book was a protest against a double standard. A young Brahmin widow was sentenced to death for killing her illegitimate baby, but no one tried to find or punish the father.

(D) It created little stir when it was published. — Incorrect. The book did the opposite. It created quite a stir when it was published.

NCERT (2026-27): “5.3 Struggle for women’s equality and rights …
Stree Purush Tulana (or Comparison of Men and Women) was written by a Maharashtrian housewife, Tarabai Shinde, as a protest against the double standards of a male dominated society. A young Brahmin widow had been sentenced to death by the courts for killing her newborn baby because it was illegitimate, but no effort had been made to identify or punish the man who had fathered the baby. Stree Purush Tulana created quite a stir when it was published. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in a well-to-do Bengali Muslim family, and was lucky to have a husband who was very liberal in outlook and encouraged her education first in Urdu and later in Bengali and English. She was already a successful author in Urdu and Bengali when she wrote Sultana’s Dream to test her abilities in English. …”