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According to you, which social reform movement has played the most effective role in uplifting the status of women? Explain.

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  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

My position is that the Brahmo Samaj, founded by Rammohan Roy in 1828, was the most effective — but effective in a precise and limited sense. It did not give women agency; it built the legal and institutional infrastructure through which women's status could later be claimed. Effectiveness here means durable structural consequence, not intention.

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