Unit 2 of History (syllabus: Module II — the nineteenth-century social and religious reform movements, the reformers and their organisations, and the legislation on sati, widow remarriage and the age of consent). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- What was colonial education policy actually for, and who was it aimed at?
- What is the downward filtration theory, and what did its authors know they were excluding?
- What does the must and may distinction show about representation in the public services?
- How do the reformist and the revivalist socio-religious movements differ, and what do they share?
- Why did the Brahmo Samaj decline while the Prarthana Samaj left institutions behind?
- What was Sir Syed Ahmad Khan's strategy, and why does it matter for later Muslim politics?
- In what order did the campaign for the emancipation of women proceed, and why does the order matter?
- What are the two opposed approaches to the position of the depressed classes?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.
Provisions
- Resolutions of 1923 and 1934 on communal representation in the public services, s. Home Department Resolution, 4 July 1934