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Q98 (NDA-I/2016) History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Social reform movements Answer Verified

Which of the following statements about Brahmo Samaj is/are correct ? 1. The Brahmo Marriage Act of 1872 allowed inter-caste and widow re-marriage only if . the contracting parties declared themselves to be non-Hindus. 2. Keshub Chandra Sen arranged the marriage of. his minor daughter with the Maharaja of Burdwan. 3. Keshub Chandra Sen’s followers broke away to form the Naba Brahmo Samaj. 4. The Brahmo Samaj grew .from a small elite group to a mass movement in the 19th century. Select the correct answer using the code given below :

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Statement 1 is correct; the Brahmo Marriage Act (Native Marriage Act) of 1872 was a civil law that required parties to declare they were not Hindus, Muslims, Christians, or Sikhs to bypass orthodox restrictions on inter-caste and widow remarriage [2]. Statement 2 is incorrect because Keshub Chandra Sen married his minor daughter to the Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, not Burdwan [1]. Statement 3 is incorrect as the followers who broke away in 1878 due to this marriage formed the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, not the Naba Brahmo Samaj [3]. Statement 4 is incorrect because while the Samaj expanded outside Bengal under Sen, it remained largely an intellectual and urban elite movement rather than a mass movement [2]. Therefore, only the first statement is historically accurate.

Sources

  1. [2] Modern India ,Bipin Chandra, History class XII (NCERT 1982 ed.)[Old NCERT] > Chapter 13: Growth of New India Religious and Social Reform After 1858 > Brahmo Samaj > p. 216
  2. [1] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 9: A General Survey of Socio-Cultural Reform Movements > Socio-Cultural Reform Movements and their Leaders > p. 211
  3. [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshub_Chandra_Sen
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