Match the LIST-I with LIST-II
| LIST-I Books | LIST-II Author | ||
| A. | Analogy of Religion | I. | Begum Rokeya |
| B. | Invisible Man | II. | Joseph Butler |
| C. | Stree Purush Tulana | III. | Ralph Ellison |
| D. | Sultana’s Dream | IV. | Tarabai Shinde |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A – II, B – III, C – IV, D – I
(A) Analogy of Religion — this matches (II) Joseph Butler.
(B) Invisible Man — this matches (III) Ralph Ellison.
(C) Stree Purush Tulana — this matches (IV) Tarabai Shinde.
(D) Sultana’s Dream — this matches (I) Begum Rokeya.
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.… …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. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in a well-to-do Bengali Muslim family, and was lucky to have a husband who was very liberal in outlook and encouraged her education first in Urdu and later in Bengali and English. She was already a successful author in Urdu and Bengali when she wrote Sultana’s Dream to test her abilities in English.… 5.4 The Struggles of the Disabled … One of the leading activists and scholars of disability in the Indian context, Anita Ghai, argues that this invisibility of the disabled can be compared to the Invisible Man of Ralph Ellison. Ellison’s novel of that name is a famous indictment of racism against African Americans in the USA.…” |