Question

Who started the first Indian Women University in Maharashtra in 1916?

• A. Pandita Ramabai
• B. Jyotirao Phule
• C. D.K. Karve
• D. B.R. Ambedkar

Answer 1

Answer:

C. D.K. Karve

Education

• The Deccan Education Soceity founded in 1884 in Pune by G.G.Agarkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Mahadev Govinda Ranade was one of such educational institutions established with a nationalistic perspective.

• D.K. Karve started the first Indian Women University in Maharashtra in 1916.

• Visva Bharati, the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, focused on universal brotherhood.

• Kerala Kalamandalam in the Cheruthuruthy village of Thrissur, founded by Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon

• In 1937, Mahatma Gandhi proposed a special education plan. This is called Wardha Education Plan.

• Gandhiji proposed that education should be related to some productive occupation.

• He recommended free and compulsory education in mother tongue for all children between 8 and 14 years. This perspective of education is known as Nai Talim (New education).