Question

In which of the following places Satya Sodhak Samaj was founded?
A. Pune
B. Ahmedabad
C. Satara
D. Nagpur

Answer 1

Hint:
> It was a social reform society founded by Jyotirao Phule on 24 September 1873.
> In order to offer education to the lower casts, Satya Sodhak Samaj was created.
> It has made a significant contribution to the Low Caste Protest Movement in the 19th century

Complete answer:
For the rights of depressed classes, the Satya Sodhak Samaj, or the Society of Seekers of Truth, was created by Phule to denounce the caste system and spread critical thought. In was established with the aim of liberating the Shudras, Dalit’s and preventing the upper caste from exploiting them, especially women like the ruling case Maratha.

By holding the thoughts and ideas of human well-being, happiness, peace, equality, and basic religious values and rituals, he developed the Samaj. Membership to the Samaj was open to all sort of people irrespective of caste and class.

The Samaj regarded itself as the means of communication between people and God, and thus opposed the Brahmins’ bureaucracy in their time. The Upanishads and the Vedic community were rejected by the Samaj and it also refused to honour Aryan Society.

Option A. Pune is the correct answer as the Samaj was founded in Pune, Maharashtra.
Option B. Ahmedabad is the wrong answer.
Option C. Satara is the wrong answer.
Option D. Nagpur is the wrong answer.

Therefore, the correct answer is A

Note:
The Samaj also promoted social reforms that contradicted Brahminic practises, including less costly marriages, inter-caste marriages, the end of child marriage, and the right of the widow remarriage. Arguments against Brahmin social and political dominance were also established by the Samaj. The Samaj published the Deenabandhu newspaper from 1877 to 1897, in order to spread their ideas more effectively.