Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Book) | List-II (Author) | ||
| (A) | Three Sermons on Human Nature | (I) | Tarabai Shinde |
| (B) | Vedic Authorities for Widow Marriage | (II) | Bishop Joseph Butler |
| (C) | Sultana’s Dream | (III) | M.G. Ranade |
| (D) | Stree Purush Tulana | (IV) | Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (IV), (D) - (I)
(A) Three Sermons on Human Nature — this matches (II) Bishop Joseph Butler.
(B) Vedic Authorities for Widow Marriage — this matches (III) M.G. Ranade.
(C) Sultana’s Dream — this matches (IV) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
(D) Stree Purush Tulana — this matches (I) Tarabai Shinde.
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.” “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.…”
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