{"id":135775,"date":"2023-05-29T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=135775"},"modified":"2023-05-29T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T06:19:27","slug":"who-was-at-the-forefront-of-support-for-age-of-consent-act-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/who-was-at-the-forefront-of-support-for-age-of-consent-act-1891\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was at the forefront of support for Age of Consent Act, 1891?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Q. Who was at the forefront of support for Age of Consent Act, 1891?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Tilak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Keshab Chandra Sen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) B.M.Malabari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Vivekanand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (c) B.M.Malabari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: The forefront of support for the Age of Consent Act, 1891 was B.M. Malabari. Behramji Malabari was an Indian social reformer and journalist who actively campaigned for women&#8217;s rights and advocated against child marriage. He played a crucial role in raising awareness about the issues faced by women, particularly with regard to child marriage and the age of consent. Malabari&#8217;s efforts and writings were instrumental in garnering support for the Age of Consent Act, which aimed to raise the minimum age of marriage for girls in colonial India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Who was at the forefront of support for Age of Consent Act, 1891? (a) Tilak (b) Keshab Chandra Sen (c) B.M.Malabari (d) Vivekanand Ans: (c) B.M.Malabari Explanation: The forefront of support for the Age of Consent Act, 1891 was B.M. Malabari. Behramji Malabari was an Indian social reformer and journalist who actively campaigned for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":135782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"class_list":["post-135775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135784,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135775\/revisions\/135784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}