Correct answer: (b) 2 and 3 only
Explanation
- A
1 and 2 only
1 and 2 only. Education was not the Rakhmabai litigation.
- B
2 and 3 only
2 and 3 only. Restitution of conjugal rights and the age-of-consent debate. Not a right-to-education case.
- C
1 and 3 only
1 and 3 only. Drops age of consent; keeps education.
- D
1, 2 and 3
All three. Statement 1 fails.
Summary. Official key is (b) 2 and 3 only. Rakhmabai (1884–88) refused to join Dadaji’s house: restitution of conjugal rights, then the Age of Consent controversy (1891). Women’s schooling was not the issue in court.
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