Read the pictures below answer the questions that follow:

(i)This is a picture of a child bride at the beginning of the 20th century.

Which Act was passed to prevent child marriage and when?

(ii) What was the provision of this Act?

Reformers got full support from all sections of the people of the country.

The Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed in 1929.

How did the knowledge of ancient texts help the reformers promote new laws?

What were the different reasons people had for not sending girls to school?

Why were Christian missionaries attacked by many people in the country? Would some people have supported them too? If so, for what reasons?

In the British period, what new opportunities opened up for people who came from castes that were regarded as “low”?

How did Jyotirao, the reformer, justify their criticism of caste inequality in society?

Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the
American movement to free slaves?

What did Ambedkar want to achieve through the temple entry movement?

Why were Jyotirao Phule and Ramaswami Naicker critical of the national movement ? Did their criticism help the national struggle in any way?