All 13 Socio-Religious Reforms questions the Punjab PSC asked between 2015 and 2024, each with a worked answer and the exam it came from. First 10 free to read.
Free to read, with the worked answer and the exam each one came from. The book prints this topic in the order the Commission favours, so these are the ones to know first.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan led the Aligarh Movement. He founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875. Baba Dayal Das (Dayal Singh) started the Nirankari movement in Punjab, at Rawalpindi. Bhagat Jawahar Mal and Baba Balak Singh founded the Kuka (Namdhari) movement, and Baba Ram Singh later led it. Atmaram Pandurang founded the Prarthana Samaj in Bombay in 1867.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1815 at Calcutta, not at Madras in 1824, so statement 2 is wrong. It was a small philosophical discussion circle where debates on religious and social questions were held, and it prepared the ground for the Brahmo Samaj he founded in 1828. Statements 1 and 3 are correct.
Satyarth Prakash (The Light of Truth, 1875) was written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. He founded the Arya Samaj. The book sets out his call to return to the Vedas. Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj. Shraddha Ram Phillauri wrote the Punjabi novel Sikhan de Raj di Vithia and the aarti Om Jai Jagdish Hare.
Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj (Bombay, 1875), not the Prarthana Samaj, so statement (c) is wrong. The Prarthana Samaj was started in Bombay in 1867 by Atmaram Pandurang, with M.G. Ranade as its leading figure. Vivekananda did speak at the 1893 Chicago Parliament of Religions, and Jyotiba Phule did found the Satyashodhak Samaj (1873).
Raja Ram Mohan Roy championed English and Western scientific education (supporting David Hare's Hindu College, founded 1817) and fought the press regulations of 1823, so statements 1 and 2 are correct. Statement 4 is wrong, since he is widely called a 'prophet of humanity', and statement 3 overstates his role.
All three statements are wrong. The Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh was founded in 1875, not 1860. Syed Ahmad Khan's aim was to give Muslims a modern Western education, not to demand a separate nation. He did not denounce modern science. He championed it through the Scientific Society (1864) and the Aligarh movement.
The Theosophical Society was founded in New York in 1875 by Madame H.P. Blavatsky and Colonel H.S. Olcott; its headquarters shifted to Adyar, Madras, in 1882. Annie Besant joined later and became its president in 1907, and A.O. Hume is associated with founding the Indian National Congress.
Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 at Belur near Kolkata in memory of his guru Ramakrishna Paramahansa. Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj and Annie Besant led the Theosophical Society.
Swami Vivekananda said this in his opening address to the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893: 'We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.' He held that the world's religions are so many paths to one truth, to be embraced rather than merely tolerated.
Raja Rammohun Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj, campaigned against sati, and his efforts led Governor-General Lord William Bentinck to abolish it by Regulation XVII of 1829. Vidyasagar is associated with widow remarriage (Act of 1856), Keshab Chandra Sen with the Brahmo Samaj of India and Dayanand Saraswati with the Arya Samaj.
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See the printed book →The Commission set 13 Socio-Religious Reforms questions across 19 papers between 2015–2024. That is the whole set, not a sample — every one of them is in the book, and the 10 most-asked are on this page free.
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| Exam | Year | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer(Architecture,Production,E… | 2016 | 2 |
| District Welfare Officer | 2015 | 2 |
| Junior Scientific Officer (Group-B) | 2024 | 1 |
| District Defence Services Welfare Officer | 2023 | 1 |
| Scientific Assistant (Biology) (Group B) | 2023 | 1 |
| Assistant Town Planner (Group A) | 2023 | 1 |
| Scientific Assistant (Serology) (Group B) | 2023 | 1 |
| Assistant Town Planner | 2023 | 1 |
| Analysts | 2022 | 1 |
| Punjab Civil Services (Executive Branch) to Be Fi | 2019 | 1 |
| Punjab Civil Services(Executive Branch) of Register | 2019 | 1 |
| Assistant Director, Industrial Training Principal Junior Scale Industrial Traini | 2018 | 1 |