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Person Tarabai Shinde
Asked 3 times across 2 UPSC exams over 8 years (2017–2025), peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in CDS — 2 of 3 PYQs
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 3 years (2017–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CDS 2017 → CBI 2023
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 3) are since 2016.
Related concepts
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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)
CBI2023
Who wrote the feminist text Stree-Purush Tulana ?
- A Pandita Ramabai
- B Rukhmabai
- C Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
- D Tarabai Shinde ✓
✓ Correct answer: (D)
History › Society & Social Institutions
CDS2017
Who among the following is the author of the book, A Comparison between Women and Men?
- A Pandita Ramabai
- B Sarojini Naidu
- C Tarabai Shinde ✓
- D Rameshwari Nehru
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Society & Social Institutions
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