_history women caste and reformes

• women who were educated were believed to become widows
• women who chose death at the funeral pyre of their husbands were called sati
• sati means virtuous woman
• raja rammohun roy was a reformer who found brahmo sabha
• brahmo sabha was later known as brahmo samaj
• brahmo sabha was established in culcutta
• brahmosamaj was founded by ram mohan roy
• brahmans and kshatriyas were the upper castes
• people who cleaned the villages were considered polluting and untouchables
• sati was banned in 1829
• raja rammohun roy was well versed in sanskrit and persian
• ishwarachandra vidyasagar used ancient texts and showed that widows could remarry
• a law was passed in 1856 permitting widow remarriage
• veerasalingam pantulu formed an association for widow remarriage in the madras presidency
• the arya samaj was found by swami dayanda saraswathi in 1875,in the north
• vidyasagar found schools for girls in culcutta
• arya samaj established schools for girls in Punjab
• Jyothirao phule found schools for girls in maharashtra
• the hindu mahila vidyalaya was the first institutions that provided girls with the same kind of curriculum as boys
• in Muslim households women were taught to read Koran in Arabic
• some times women were taught by women or liberal father or husbands
• begums of bengal played a notable role in promoting education for women
• the begums of Bengal found a primary school for girls at Aligarh
• begum rokheya sakhawat hossain started girls schools at patna and culcutta
• tarabai shinde wrote a book called stripurushatulna
• tarabai shinde was educatedd at home in poona
• pandita ramabai found a widows home at poona to provide shelter to widows
• pandita ramabai is a great sanskrit scholar
• in 1829 child marriage restraint act was passed
• no man below the age of 18 could marry
• woman below the age of 16 could marry
• the limits were increased to 21 for men and 18 for women
• the prarthana samaj adhered to the tradition of bhakti
• for the abolition of caste, the paramhans mandali was found at bombay in 1840
• christians missionaries started setting up schools for lower caste
• the lower caste people went to work in Assam ,Mauritius ,Trinidad , Indonesia
• the coolie ship named john allen took people form India to Mauritius
• the mahar caste people were regarded as untouchables
• father of b r Ambedkar was the leader of the dalit movement
• dublas worked for the upper caste landowners