Socio Religious interview questions

From which area the social and religious reform movements started?

1. Madras
2. Bihar
3. Orissa
4. Bengal

Who among the following Mughal Kings had sent Raja Ram Mohan Roy as his envoy to London?

1. Akbar II
2. Alamgir II
3. Bahadur Shah II
4. Shah Alam II

The 19th century reawakening in India was confined to the

1. Urban landlords
2. Rich peasantry
3. Priestly class
4. Upper middle class

In which year did Swami Vivekanand participate the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago?

1. 1893
2. 1895
3. 1857
4. 1899

Who started the Ved Samaj?

1. Vivekanand
2. Gharalu Naidu
3. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
4. Dayanand Saraswati

Which of the following reform movements was the first to be started in the 19th century?

1. Arya Samaj
2. Brahmo Samaj
3. Prarthana Samaj
4. Ram Krishna Mission

The Arya Samaj was founded by

1. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
2. Keshav Chandra Sen
3. Swami Vivekanand
4. Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Sati was declared illegal and punishable by the Regulation XVII during the Governor Generalship of

1. Lord Dalhousie
2. Lord Ripon
3. Lord Canning
4. Lord William Bentick

When was the All India Women’s Conference founded?

1. 1924
2. 1925
3. 1926
4. 1927

Who among the following founded the Theosophical Society in India in 1879?

1. Madam Blavatsky and H.S. Olcott
2. A.O. Hume and Annie Besant
3. H.S. Olcott and Annie Besant
4. Madam Blavatsky and Annie Besant

The Mohemmadan Anglo-Oriental College of Aligarh was founded by

1. Sir syed Ahed Khan
2. Shaukat Ali
3. Mohammad Ali
4. Md. Ali Jinnah

Who was the founder of the Radha Swami Satsang?

1. Swami Sraddhananda
2. Siva Narayan Agnihotri
3. Siva Dayal Saheb
4. Haridas Swami

Who started the Ahmadia movement in district Gurdaspur of Punjab?

1. Abdul Wahab
2. Mirza Galib
3. Mirza Gulam Ahmad
4. Sir Saiyyad Ahmad Khan

The leading light of the renaissance movement in India was

1. Ram Mohan Roy
2. Ishwar Chnadra Vidyasagar
3. Keshav Chandra Sen
4. Debendranath Tagore

Who of the following said ‘Good Government is no substitute for self-Government’?

1. Rabindra Nath Tagore
2. Swami Dayanand
3. Swami Vivekanand
4. Lokmanya Tilak

Who was Shardamani?

1. Daughter of Keshab Chandra Sen
2. Mother of Vivekanand
3. Wife of Ramakrishna Paramahansa
4. Wife of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

The Academic Association was founded by

1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
2. Ishwar Chadra Gupta
3. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
4. Henry Vivian Derozio

Where was first Madarasa set up by the British in India?

1. Madras
2. Aligarh
3. Bombay
4. Calcutta

Who was the inspirator behind the young Bengal Movement?

1. Ram Gopal Ghosh
2. Krishna Mohan Benerjee
3. Madhusudan Dutt
4. Henry Vivian Derozio

Lord Macaulay is associated with

1. Abolition of Sati System
2. Permanent Settlement
3. Reforms in Army
4. English Education

Who among the following was a proponent of Fabianism as a Movement?

1. A.O. Hume
2. Annie Besant
3. R. Plame Dutt
4. Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Kuka Movement was organized by

1. Guru Gobind Singh
2. Guru Ram Singh
3. Guru Nanak
4. Guru Ram Das

When did the Akali Movement start?

1. 1901
2. 1911
3. 1921
4. 1931

Who among the following is known as ‘Martin Luther of India’?

1. Swami Sraddhanand
2. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
3. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
4. Swami Vivekanand

The original name of Swami Dayanand Saraswati was

1. Daya Shankar
2. Gauri Shankar
3. Abhi Shankar
4. Mula Shankar

Who was the founder of Prarthana Samaj?

1. Dayanand Saraswati
2. Atmaram pandurang
3. Rabendranath Tagore
4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Who among the following was the founder of the Servants of India Society?

1. Lala Lajpat Rai
2. Gopal Krishna Gokhle
3. Dadabhai Naoroji
4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Raja Ram Mohan Roy established Brahmo Samaj in

1. 1816 A.D
2. 1820 A.D
3. 1828 A.D
4. 1830 A.D

Who founded the Fort William College at Calcutta?

1. Lord Wellesely
2. Lord Macalay
3. Lord Ellenborough
4. Lord Cornwallis