Practicing Success

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 Western 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:

Only Statement 1 is correct

Explanation:

Raja Rammohun 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 Bengal. Rammohun Roy’s ideas represented a curious mixture of Western rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality. Rammohun attacked the practice of sati on the basis of both appeals to humanitarian and natural rights doctrines as well as Hindu shastras.