Bhaurao Patil — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

Jyotirao Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-Seekers’ Society) in Pune on 24 September 1873 to work for the education and rights of women, peasants and Dalits, and to reject Brahmin ritual authority. The Arya Samaj (1875) and Prarthana Samaj (1867) were later Bombay-region reform bodies, while the Brahmo Samaj (1828) was Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s Calcutta society.

It was, and remains, a privately founded trust rather than a government programme, though it went on to receive wide social and official recognition.

“Karmaveer” combines karma (action/deed) and veer (brave one/hero), meaning “Hero of Action” — a more accurate rendering than the commonly repeated but etymologically loose “King of Actions.”

By 1959, the Sanstha ran 38 hostels and 578 schools, alongside 3 colleges and 6 teacher-training institutes, all grown from the single 1919 hostel at Kale.

Students worked to fund their own education, an approach that let poor and lower-caste students, otherwise shut out of formal schooling, study anyway.

He received the Padma Bhushan in 1959, and died on 9 May that year, aged 71.

He was influenced by the Satyashodhak movement, and by reformers Jyotirao Phule and Chhatrapati Shahu of Kolhapur.

By 1959, the Sanstha ran 38 hostels, 578 schools, 3 colleges, and 6 teacher-training institutes.

He was given the title “Karmaveer,” meaning “King of Action,” by the people of Maharashtra.

Patil’s hostel ran on an ‘Earn and Learn’ model, where students worked to cover the cost of their own education.