Answer the following questions very briefly.
1. Name two women associations formed to reform the plight of women.
2. Who banned the religious custom of child sacrifice in the Sagar Island of Bay of Bengal?
3. Why were girls married off at an early age?
4. What is female infanticide?
5. Who were among the first to attack the practice of sati?
Answers
Answer:
1.SEWA(self employed women's association),Women's Indian association,ladies circle of Indian women.
2.Lord Wellesley in 1803
3.Girls are often married off at a younger age because less dowry is expected for younger brides. Betrothal: Some girls are promised in marriage before they are born in order to “secure” their future.
4.Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children. In countries with a history of female infanticide, the modern practice of sex-selective abortion is often discussed as a closely related issue. Female infanticide is a major cause of concern in several nations such as China, India and Pakistan.
5.Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Explanation:
1. SEWA(self employed women's
association),Women's Indian association,ladies
circle of Indian women
2. James Walker
3. Because at the ancient times girls were not
equalified with the men
4. In the ancient times when there was the test
of females that in there is girl or a boy birth.
The villagers get angry on the mothers
who gave the birth to females and that female
children were killed inside by the village
doctors. This illegal killing of female child is
called female Infanticide.
5. In 1811 Roy witnessed his brother's widow
being burned alive on her husband's
funeral pyre. Three years later he retired and
concentrated on complaining against the
practice of woman dying as Sati. Raja Ram
Mohan Roy was the first Indian to protest from
against this custom.
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