Women’s Question – UGC NET History – Practice Questions

1. The term “woman question” in colonial India primarily referred to:
A. Agrarian distress among women
B. Debates regarding women’s social status, rights, and reform
C. Women’s military participation
D. Women’s religious conversion

2. Which among the following social practices became a major issue of reform in 19th-century India?
A. Permanent Settlement
B. Mahalwari system
C. Sati system
D. Ryotwari system

3. Match List I with List II regarding women reformers and their contributions:

A- a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
B- a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
C- a-iii, b-ii, c-iv, d-i
D- a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii

4. Assertion (A): The nationalist movement brought women into public politics.
Reason (R): Women participated in Civil Disobedience and anti-colonial protests.

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation
C. (A) is true but (R) is false
D. (A) is false but (R) is true

5. Which scholar wrote Homo Hierarchicus that indirectly influenced studies of gender and caste?
A. M. N. Srinivas
B. Andre Beteille
C. G. S. Ghurye
D. Louis Dumont

6. The Anti-Sati Regulation was passed during the Governor-Generalship of:
A. Lord William Bentinck
B. Lord Dalhousie
C. Lord Curzon
D. Lord Ripon

7. The Widow Remarriage Act was passed in:
A. 1829
B. 1833
C. 1856
D. 1891

8. Match List I with List II regarding women’s organizations:

A- a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
B- a-i, b-iv, c-ii, d-iii
C- a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv
D- a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii

9. Which colonial legislation raised the age of consent for girls from 10 to 12 years?
A. Widow Remarriage Act
B. Age of Consent Act, 1891
C. Sarada Act
D. Female Infanticide Prevention Act

10. Assertion (A): Reformers supported women’s education as essential for national progress.
Reason (R): Colonial education policy completely encouraged women’s equal professional education.

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation
B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation
C. (A) is true but (R) is false
D. (A) is false but (R) is true

11. Which text by Katherine Mayo criticized Indian society and women’s condition?
A. Discovery of India
B. Gulamgiri
C. Stri Purush Tulana
D. Mother India

12. Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay’s Paribarik Prabandha dealt mainly with:
A. Industrialization
B. Tribal autonomy
C. Peasant uprisings
D. Family and social norms

13. Match List I with List II concerning legislations:

A- a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
B- a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii
C- a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii
D- a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

14. Who among the following opposed the Age of Consent Bill?
A. M. G. Ranade
B. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
C. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
D. Pandita Ramabai

15. Assertion (A): Women’s reform in colonial India affected all women equally.
Reason (R): Reform varied according to caste, class, and region.

A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation
B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation
C. (A) is true but (R) is false
D. (A) is false but (R) is true

16. Rashsundari Devi is known for:
A. Writing Aman Jiban and promoting feminine autonomy
B. Founding AIWC
C. Campaigning against sati
D. Introducing women’s suffrage

17. The abolition of Marumakkathayam system in Kerala led to:
A. Growth of matriliny
B. Rise of patriarchal and patrilineal family system
C. Temple reforms
D. Peasant uprisings

18. Which dispatch encouraged women’s education in India?
A. Hunter Commission
B. Sadler Commission
C. Wood’s Despatch (1854)
D. Hartog Committee

19. Match List I with List II regarding scholars and ideas:

A- a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii
B- a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
C- a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i
D- a-iii, b-iv, c-i, d-ii

20. The Rukmabai case became important because it concerned:
A. Temple entry rights
B. Widow remarriage
C. Property inheritance
D. Women’s consent and conjugal rights