Q. Who among the following personality founded the Ladies Social Conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad)?

[A] Sarojini Naidu

[B] Ramabai Ranade

[C] Sarla Devi Chaudhurani

[D] Annie Besant

Answer: B
Notes:

Explanation: In 1910, Sarla Devi Chaudhurani convened the first meeting of the Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad.

  • Considered as the first major Indian women’s organisation set up by a woman, its objectives included promotion of education for women, abolition of the purdah system and improvement in the socio-economic and political status of woman all over India.
  • Sarla Devi believed that the man working for women’s upliftment lived ‘under the shade of Manu’.
  • Ramabai Ranade founded the Ladies Social Conference (Bharat Mahila Parishad), under the parent organisation National Social Conference, in 1904 in Bombay.

Source: Spectrum Modern History

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