Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Person) | List-II (Contribution to society) | ||
| (A) | Sri Narayana Guru | (I) | Gave the watchwords ‘One Caste, One Religion, One God for all men’. |
| (B) | Savitri Bai Phule | (II) | Started a night school for agriculturists and labourers. |
| (C) | Periyar (E.V. Ramasami Naickar) | (III) | Aroused people to realise that all men are equal. |
| (D) | Ayyankali | (IV) | Dalits got the freedom to walk on public roads. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) – (I), (B) – (II), (C) – (III), (D) – (IV)
(A) Sri Narayana Guru — this matches (I) Gave the watchwords ‘One Caste, One Religion, One God for all men’.
(B) Savitri Bai Phule — this matches (II) Started a night school for agriculturists and labourers.
(C) Periyar (E.V. Ramasami Naickar) — this matches (III) Aroused people to realise that all men are equal.
(D) Ayyankali — this matches (IV) Dalits got the freedom to walk on public roads.
NCERT (2025-26): “Caste in the Present … Efforts to organise the ‘depressed classes’ and particularly the untouchable castes predated the nationalist movement, having begun in the second half of the nineteenth century. This was an initiative taken from both ends of the caste spectrum – by upper caste progressive reformers as well as by members of the lower castes such as Mahatma Jotiba Phule and Babasaheb Ambedkar in western India, Ayyankali, Sri Narayana Guru, Iyotheedass and Periyar (E.V. Ramaswamy Naickar) in the South.…”
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