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To what extent did the socio-religious movements contribute to the emancipation of women in the 19th century.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

The 19th-century socio-religious reform movements made women's status a central battleground, yet their achievements were real but partial, legal rather than social, and confined mostly to an urban elite.

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  • Abolition of Sati
  • Widow Remarriage
  • Female Education
  • Ending Child Marriage and the Age of Consent Debate
  • The Brahmo, Arya, and Prarthana Contribution
  • Structural Limits of the Reform

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