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GS History Modern India
Q.

With reference to Socio-Religious reform, consider the following statements

1. Aligarh movement was started by Sir Syed Ahmad with an aim to revive Islam in India.

2. Indian Women’s University was founded by D K Karve at Bombay in 1916.

3. Wahabi movement was an Islamist reformist movement as a response to western influence.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Explanation:

Statement 1 is incorrect. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan launched the Aligarh Movement. The movement of Muslim awakening associated with Syed Ahmad Khan and Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College came to be known as Aligarh Movement. The Aligarh Movement was the drive for modern Muslim education made a weighty and lasting contribution to the political emancipation of Indian Muslims. It had never aim to revive Islam in India. It was a reformist movement.

Statement 2 is correct. Karve crowned his work by setting up an Indian Women's University at Bombay in 1916. Karve himself married a widow in 1893. He dedicated his life to the upliftment of Hindu widows and became the secretary of the Widow Remarriage Association.

Statement 3 is incorrect. Wahhabism or Wahhabi mission is a sect, religious movement or branch of Islam. It has been variously described as "ultraconservative", "austere", "fundamentalist", or "puritan(ical)" and as an Islamic "revivalist movement" to restore "pure monotheistic worship" (tawhid) by devotees, and as a "deviant sectarian movement", "vile sect" and a distortion of Islam by its opponents.

Thus, Option B is Correct.

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