Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Question:
Consider the following statements related to the widow remarriages and choose the correct statement.
1. Ranade was one of the leading reformers of the widow remarriage movement in the
Bombay Presidency.
2. Jyotiba Phule's writings titled '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.
Options:
1 only
2 only
both 1 and 2
neither 1 nor 2
Correct Answer:
1 only
Explanation:
M.G. Ranade's writings titled '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.