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Person Pandita Ramabai
Asked 3 times across 3 UPSC exams over 9 years (2016–2025), peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in CDS — 1 of 3 PYQs
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 3 years (2016–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
EPFO 2016 → NDA 2022 → CDS 2025
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 3) are since 2016.
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CDS2025
With reference to the women achievers in modern India, consider the following statements
- Pandita Ramabai published a book "A Comparison Between Women and Men" where she protested against the colonial view that men enjoyed all the rights, opportunities and benefits of change
- Tarabai Shinde worked in the field of medicine to reduce child mortality in rural India
- Sarojini Naidu led a delegation to London to demand for female franchise. How many of statements given above is/are correct ?
- A 1
- B 2
- C 3
- D None
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
NDA2022
for which she fought till the end (P) as a champion of women's rights, (Q) Pandita Ramabai was truly remarkable (R) as a pioneer in women's education and (S)
- A SRQP
- B QPRS
- C RSQP ✓
- D PQRS
✓ Correct answer: (C)
English Language › Sentence Ordering & Cloze
EPFO2016
Who among the following was the founder of the Arya Mahila Samaj in the early 1880s?
- A Swami Dayananda Saraswati
- B Swami Vivekananda
- C Pandita Ramabai ✓
- D Ramabai Ranade
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Freedom Struggle (1857–1947)
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