The watchwords, "One Caste, One Religion, One God for all men" is directed against which of the following?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Inequalities of the caste system.
Option (1) Inequalities of the caste system. — Correct. The watchwords were given by Sri Narayana Guru of Kerala, who preached brotherhood for all and fought against the ill effects of the caste system. ‘One Caste’ rejects the division of people into high and low castes; ‘One Religion, One God’ carries the same idea of equality into worship.
NCERT (2025-26): “…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. Both Mahatma Gandhi and Babasaheb Ambedkar began organising protests against untouchability from the 1920s onwards. Anti-untouchability programmes became a significant part of the Congress agenda so that, by the time Independence was on the horizon, there was a broad agreement across the spectrum of the nationalist movement to abolish caste distinctions.…”
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