Statement I Intellectual criteria which informed the reform movements were rationalism and religious universalism. Statement II: Social relevance was not judged by a rationalist critique.

Statement I is correct as the 19th-century Indian reform movements were unified by the intellectual criteria of rationalism, religious universalism, and humanism [3]. These movements, including the Brahmo Samaj and Aligarh movement, sought to reconcile traditional beliefs with modern reason [2]. Statement II is false because rationalism was explicitly used as a tool to judge social relevance [1]. Reformers like Raja Rammohan Roy and Akshay Kumar Dutt applied a rational approach to evaluate contemporary socio-religious practices from the standpoint of social utility and causality [3]. They aimed to replace blind faith with rationality, leading to the repudiation of the infallibility of religious texts when they conflicted with reason [3]. Therefore, social relevance was indeed judged by a rationalist critique, contradicting the second statement.

Sources

1. [1] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 8: Socio-Religious Reform Movements: General Features > The Intellectual Criteria > p. 192
2. [3] History , class XI (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 19: Towards Modernity > 19.1 Emergence of Reform Movements > p. 299
3. [2] History , class XII (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 1: Rise of Nationalism in India > 1.3 Social and Religious Reforms > p. 6