PROJECT WORK SUPPORTING MATERIAL FOR
CLASS 10 ENGLISH UNIT 5
Qn. Collect information about the people who fought
against social evils. Prepare a report on the difficulties and oppositions they
had faced to fight against the evils. Discuss in your groups the similarities
in the problems they faced and the solutions they found to tackle them. Present
it before the class.
Sl No
|
Name
of the person
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Place
|
Social evils they fought against
|
Period
or the year
|
1
|
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
|
Hoogly
|
Sati, Caste Rigidity, Polygamy and Child marriages
|
1820-1830
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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Report for the Project:
Sl No
|
Name
of the person
|
Place
|
Social evils they fought against
|
Period
or the year
|
1
|
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
|
Hoogly
|
Sati, Caste Rigidity, Polygamy and Child marriages
|
1820-1830
|
2
|
Swami Dayanada Saraswathi
|
Tenkara, Rajkot, Gujarath
|
Idol worship, Ritualism, Practice of animal scrifice, The idea
of heaven etc
|
1870-1882
|
3
|
Jamnalal Bajaj
|
Kashi ka bas, Sikar, Rajasthan
|
Untouchability, Non-admission of Harijans into Hindu Temples,
Indians' poverty, Freedom fighter
|
1920-1940
|
4
|
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
|
Birsingha, Parchim Midnapore, Calcutta
|
Women's rights, widow remarriages, polygamy, etc
|
1856-1890
|
5
|
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
|
Mhow Contonment, Madhya Pradesh
|
racial discrimination, caste system, social discrimination,
untouchability
|
1925-1950
|
6
|
Kandukuri Veereshalingam
|
Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh (former Madras State)
|
Education for women, remarriage f widows
|
1880-1910
|
Report:
India
has a rich history of social reformers who have helped establish the
foundations of modern India, and in some cases, have affected a world-wide
impact. They cause many social reformations in the past Indian society. They
tried to reform the society and succeeded in rooting out the social evils. Most
of the social reformers fought against Sati, Caste Discrimination, Polygamy,
Child Marriages, Idol Worship, Practice of Animal Sacrifice, Poverty,
Untouchability and for Widow Remarriages, Women’s Rights and their education.
In fact they faced many difficulties and oppositions to fight against those
social evils.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Raja Ram Mohan Roy is remembered
bringing about for women reform laws, especially law banning Sati Practice.
When in 1818, some Hindus objected to guideline restricting Sati, Roy produced
a counter-petition requesting government to pass a law banning sati practice.
He was at loggerhead with Raja Radha Kanta Deb, who was aginst government interference
in religious practice. Roy risked his personal life and started a campaign
against Sati practice.
Swami
Dayanada Saraswathi: Swami Dayananda Saraswathi is well-known as the
founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition. He
gought against the social evils such as idol worship, ritualism, practice of
animals sacrifices, idea of heaven, etc. He travelled all over the country
challenging religious scholars and priests to discussions and won repeatedly on
the strength of his arguments based on his knowledge of Sanskrit and Vedas. He
believed that Hinduism had been corrupted by divergence from the founding principles
of the Vedas and that Hindus had been misled by the priesthood. Hindu priests
discouraged the laity from reading Vedic scriptures and encouraged rituals,
such as bathing in the river Ganges and feeding of priests on anniversaries,
which Dayandanda pronounced as superstitions.
Jamnalal Bajaj: He fought gainst untouchability and
poverty. With the intent of eradicating untouchab ility, he fought the
non-admission of Harijans into Hindu Tembples in his hometown of Wardha. As
orthodox Hindu priests and Brahmns objected, he opened his own family temple,
the Laxmi Narayan Mandir in Wardha, for the Harijans in 1928. He began to
compaign by eating a meal with Harijans and opening public wells to them. He
opened several wells in his fields and gardens.
Ishwar
Chandra Vidyasagar: Ishwar Chandra Vidhyasagar championed the uplift of the
status of women in India, particularly I his native place Bengal. He introduced
the practice of widow remarriages to mainstream Hindu society. He also
demonstrated that the system of polygamy without restrictions was not
sanctioned by the ancient Hindu Shastras. He always tried to help the poor.
Though he was objected in his works, he didn’t lose faith and hope and
continued with his works.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: He fought
against untouchability. He campaigned against social discrimination, the Indian
caste system. He worked as a private tutor, as an accountant, and established
an investment consulting business, but it failed when his clients learned that
he was an untouchable. In 1926, he successfully defended three non-Brahmin
leaders who had accused the Brahmin community of ruining India and were then
subsequently sued for libel. By 1927 Ambedkar decided to launch active
movements against untouchability. He began with public movements and marches to
open up and share public drinking water sources; also he began a struggle for
the right to enter Hindu temples. He led a satyagraha n Mahad to fight for the
righ of the untouchable community to draw water from the main water tank of the
town.
Kandukuri Veereshalingam: He
was a social reformer of former Madras State. He encouraged education for
women. He was one of the earliest reformers in India to demand for radical
changes in Telugu Indian society. He fought for remarriage of widows. Thought
he was opposed by the so-called traditionalists, he didn’t stop his efforts and
went on with his work.
PROJECT WORK SUPPORTING MATERIAL FOR
CLASS 10 ENGLISH UNIT 5
Qn. Collect information about the people who fought
against social evils. Prepare a report on the difficulties and oppositions they
had faced to fight against the evils. Discuss in your groups the similarities
in the problems they faced and the solutions they found to tackle them. Present
it before the class.
Sl No
|
Name
of the person
|
Place
|
Social evils they fought against
|
Period
or the year
|
1
|
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
|
Hoogly
|
Sati, Caste Rigidity, Polygamy and Child marriages
|
1820-1830
|
2
|
||||
3
|
||||
4
|
||||
5
|
||||
6
|
Report for the Project:
Sl No
|
Name
of the person
|
Place
|
Social evils they fought against
|
Period
or the year
|
1
|
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
|
Hoogly
|
Sati, Caste Rigidity, Polygamy and Child marriages
|
1820-1830
|
2
|
Swami Dayanada Saraswathi
|
Tenkara, Rajkot, Gujarath
|
Idol worship, Ritualism, Practice of animal scrifice, The idea
of heaven etc
|
1870-1882
|
3
|
Jamnalal Bajaj
|
Kashi ka bas, Sikar, Rajasthan
|
Untouchability, Non-admission of Harijans into Hindu Temples,
Indians' poverty, Freedom fighter
|
1920-1940
|
4
|
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
|
Birsingha, Parchim Midnapore, Calcutta
|
Women's rights, widow remarriages, polygamy, etc
|
1856-1890
|
5
|
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
|
Mhow Contonment, Madhya Pradesh
|
racial discrimination, caste system, social discrimination,
untouchability
|
1925-1950
|
6
|
Kandukuri Veereshalingam
|
Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh (former Madras State)
|
Education for women, remarriage f widows
|
1880-1910
|
Report:
India
has a rich history of social reformers who have helped establish the
foundations of modern India, and in some cases, have affected a world-wide
impact. They cause many social reformations in the past Indian society. They
tried to reform the society and succeeded in rooting out the social evils. Most
of the social reformers fought against Sati, Caste Discrimination, Polygamy,
Child Marriages, Idol Worship, Practice of Animal Sacrifice, Poverty,
Untouchability and for Widow Remarriages, Women’s Rights and their education.
In fact they faced many difficulties and oppositions to fight against those
social evils.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy: Raja Ram Mohan Roy is remembered
bringing about for women reform laws, especially law banning Sati Practice.
When in 1818, some Hindus objected to guideline restricting Sati, Roy produced
a counter-petition requesting government to pass a law banning sati practice.
He was at loggerhead with Raja Radha Kanta Deb, who was aginst government interference
in religious practice. Roy risked his personal life and started a campaign
against Sati practice.
Swami
Dayanada Saraswathi: Swami Dayananda Saraswathi is well-known as the
founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition. He
gought against the social evils such as idol worship, ritualism, practice of
animals sacrifices, idea of heaven, etc. He travelled all over the country
challenging religious scholars and priests to discussions and won repeatedly on
the strength of his arguments based on his knowledge of Sanskrit and Vedas. He
believed that Hinduism had been corrupted by divergence from the founding principles
of the Vedas and that Hindus had been misled by the priesthood. Hindu priests
discouraged the laity from reading Vedic scriptures and encouraged rituals,
such as bathing in the river Ganges and feeding of priests on anniversaries,
which Dayandanda pronounced as superstitions.
Jamnalal Bajaj: He fought gainst untouchability and
poverty. With the intent of eradicating untouchab ility, he fought the
non-admission of Harijans into Hindu Tembples in his hometown of Wardha. As
orthodox Hindu priests and Brahmns objected, he opened his own family temple,
the Laxmi Narayan Mandir in Wardha, for the Harijans in 1928. He began to
compaign by eating a meal with Harijans and opening public wells to them. He
opened several wells in his fields and gardens.
Ishwar
Chandra Vidyasagar: Ishwar Chandra Vidhyasagar championed the uplift of the
status of women in India, particularly I his native place Bengal. He introduced
the practice of widow remarriages to mainstream Hindu society. He also
demonstrated that the system of polygamy without restrictions was not
sanctioned by the ancient Hindu Shastras. He always tried to help the poor.
Though he was objected in his works, he didn’t lose faith and hope and
continued with his works.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: He fought
against untouchability. He campaigned against social discrimination, the Indian
caste system. He worked as a private tutor, as an accountant, and established
an investment consulting business, but it failed when his clients learned that
he was an untouchable. In 1926, he successfully defended three non-Brahmin
leaders who had accused the Brahmin community of ruining India and were then
subsequently sued for libel. By 1927 Ambedkar decided to launch active
movements against untouchability. He began with public movements and marches to
open up and share public drinking water sources; also he began a struggle for
the right to enter Hindu temples. He led a satyagraha n Mahad to fight for the
righ of the untouchable community to draw water from the main water tank of the
town.
Kandukuri Veereshalingam: He
was a social reformer of former Madras State. He encouraged education for
women. He was one of the earliest reformers in India to demand for radical
changes in Telugu Indian society. He fought for remarriage of widows. Thought
he was opposed by the so-called traditionalists, he didn’t stop his efforts and
went on with his work.
