Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Question:

Statement 1: Rammohan Roy's ideas represented a curious mixture of Eastern rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality.
Statement 2: Raja Rammohan Roy's attempts to reform society, religion and the status of women can be taken as the starting point of nineteenth century social reform in Bombay.

Options:

Only Statement 1 is correct

Only Statement 2 is correct

Both the statements are correct.

Both the statements are incorrect.

Correct Answer:

Both the statements are incorrect.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4: Both the statements are incorrect.

Statement 1: Rammohan Roy's ideas represented a curious mixture of Eastern rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality. This statement is incorrect. Rammohan Roy's ideas represented a curious mixture of Western rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality, not Eastern rationality. He opposed sati by drawing upon both humanitarian and natural rights doctrines as well as Hindu shastras.

Statement 2: Raja Rammohan Roy's attempts to reform society, religion and the status of women can be taken as the starting point of nineteenth century social reform in Bombay. This statement is incorrect. Raja Rammohan Roy's reform efforts are regarded as the starting point of nineteenth-century social reform in Bengal, not Bombay.