In which year was the temple entry movement started by Bhimrao Ambedkar?

Correct — A. 1927 is the year the school texts date Ambedkar's first temple entry movement, in which his Mahar followers asserted the right to use the temple tank and to enter the temple.

It is the same year as the Mahad satyagraha, where Ambedkar led Dalits to drink from the public Chavdar tank. Water and worship were one push in 1927 against exclusion from shared space.

NCERT dates three temple entry movements between 1927 and 1935, so option (a) is the year the run opens.

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  1918 — 1918 is nine years early. The dated run of temple entry movements opens in 1927, the year of Mahad.
• (c)
  1935 — 1935 closes the run rather than opening it, and it is the year of the Yeola declaration that he would not die a Hindu.
• (d)
  1922 — 1922 still precedes the campaign. Ambedkar's mass satyagrahas in the Konkan begin in 1927, not before.

Ambedkar's early public work runs on two fronts, access to water and access to temples. Both are attacks on untouchability in shared public space rather than petitions for relief.

1927 carries both. The Mahad satyagraha claimed the right to drink from a public tank, and the temple entry campaign claimed the right to walk in.

NCERT places three such temple movements between 1927 and 1935. After that his emphasis shifts from entering Hindu institutions to political and legal guarantees, and finally to conversion.

Key facts

• Ambedkar's temple entry movement is dated to 1927.
• The Mahad satyagraha at the Chavdar tank took place in 1927.
• NCERT dates three temple entry movements led by Ambedkar between 1927 and 1935.
• At Yeola in 1935 Ambedkar declared that he would not die a Hindu.

Common traps

• Dating the movement to 1935, which is where the NCERT window ends rather than starts.
• Filing Mahad away from temple entry when both belong to 1927.

No directly related past PYQ was found.