Which of the following is an outcome of a social movement in Britain?

The correct answer is Option (4) → Universal Adult Suffrage

Option (1) Protection of the monarchial prestige — Incorrect. Social movements worked against monarchy, not for its prestige.

Option (2) Reservation in government jobs — Incorrect. Reservation of jobs in government service is a policy of the Indian state for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs, not an outcome of a movement in Britain.

Option (3) Positive affirmation for coloured people — Incorrect. The British movements were about the right to vote.

Option (4) Universal Adult Suffrage — Correct. Universal adult franchise is the right of every adult to vote. In Britain voting was once limited to property-owning men. Chartism, a social movement for parliamentary representation, collected millions of signatures for universal male suffrage, and the suffragettes fought for women’s right to vote; only from 1918 did all men over 21 and many women get the vote.