(i) Who are these people? What are they carrying in the picture?
(ii) What did they do for upper-caste landowners?
(i) These people are Dublas of Gujarat. In the picture, they are carrying mangoes to the market.
(ii)Dublas laboured for upper-caste landowners, cultivating their feilds, and working at a variety of odd jobs at the landowner’s house.
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?
The Brahmo Samaj was founded by
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