Socio-religious reform and caste movements
Women's status: widow remarriage, education, age of consent
Practise 3 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act 1856 and his women's schools
- Hindu Female School 1849 by J.E.D. Bethune with Vidyasagar as secretary; later Bethune School and College
- Rakhmabai case 1884-88 on restitution of conjugal rights and age of consent; Behramji Malabari's campaign; Age of Consent Act 1891
- National Social Conference founded by Ranade and Malabari to gather reform groups alongside the Congress after the Congress kept social questions out
- Child Marriage Restraint (Sarda) Act 1929; Women's Indian Association 1917, National Council of Women 1925, All India Women's Conference 1927; Pandita Ramabai