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Here are some interesting questions related about women of India

What is Jauhar?
Jauhar refers to the practice of the voluntary immolation of all the wives and daughters of defeated warriors, in order to avoid capture and consequent molestation by the enemy

What is Satee Prathaa? Who abolished it and when?
Sati is an old, largely defunct custom, among some communities in which the widow was immolated alive on her husband' s funeral pyre. Although the act was supposed to be a voluntary on the widow's part, it is believed to have been sometimes forced on the widow. It was abolished by the British in 1829. Raja Rammohan Roy's efforts led to the abolition of the Sati practice in 1829.

When was the first free school for girls started? Where was it?
A former student of Hindu College, Calcutta and a member of "Young Bengal" set up the first free school for girls in India in 1847 in Barasat, a suburb of Calcutta (later the school was named Kalikrishna Girls' High School).

When was widow remarriage act introduced? And whose efforts were behind it?
Eeshwar Chandra Vidyasagar's crusade for the improvement in condition of widows led to the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856. Many women reformers also helped the cause of women upliftment.

When was the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed?
In 1929, the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed, stipulating fourteen as the minimum age of marriage for a girls.

Mention some very important interesting historical events from 1848?
1848: Jyotirao Phule, along with his wife Savitribai Phule, opened a school for girls in Pune, India. Savitribai Phule became the first women teacher in India.

1879-1883: Chandramukhi Basu and Kadambini Ganguly became the first female graduates of India and the British Empire.

1886: Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi became the first women from India to be trained in Western medicine.

1951: Prem Mathur of the Deccan Airways becomes the first Indian women commercial pilot.

1953: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations General Assembly

1959: Anna Chandy becomes the first Indian woman judge of a High Court (Kerala High Court)

1979: Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Indian female citizen to do so.

1997: Kalpana Chawla becomes the first India-born woman to go into space in US.
 

 

 

 

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