Match the books in List - I with the authors List - II.
| LIST-I (Book) | LIST-II (Author) | ||
| (A) | Stree Purush Tulana | (I) | Begum Rokeya |
| (B) | Sultana's Dream | (II) | Tarabai Shinde |
| (C) | Analogy of Religion | (III) | Ranade |
| (D) | Vedic Authorities for Widow Remarriage | (IV) | Bishop S. Butler |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)
(A) Stree Purush Tulana — this matches (II) Tarabai Shinde, a Maharashtrian housewife, in 1882.
(B) Sultana’s Dream — this matches (I) Begum Rokeya, in 1905.
(C) Analogy of Religion — this matches (IV) Bishop S. Butler, whose writings Ranade used.
(D) Vedic Authorities for Widow Remarriage — this matches (III) Ranade.
NCERT (2025-26): “5.3 Struggle for women’s equality and rights … The deplorable and unjust treatment of the Hindu upper caste widows was a major issue taken up by the social reformers. Ranade used the writings of scholars such as Bishop Joseph Butler whose Analogy of Religion and Three Sermons on Human Nature dominated the moral philosophy syllabus of Bombay University in the 1860s. At the same time, M.G. Ranade’s writings entitled the The Texts of the Hindu Law on the Lawfulness of the Remarriage of Widows and Vedic Authorities for Widow Marriage elaborated the shastric sanction for remarriage of widows.” “…It is often assumed that social reform for women’s rights was entirely fought for by male reformers and that ideas of women’s equality are alien imports. To learn how wrong both these assumptions are, read the following extracts from two books written by women, Stree Purush Tulana written in 1882 and Sultana’s Dream written in 1905.” “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. This remarkable short story is probably the earliest example of science fiction writing in India, and among the first by a woman author anywhere in the world.…” |