UPSC Prelims 2016 Question:

Satya Shodhak Samaj organized

Explanation: 

• Jyotiba Phule, a lower caste social reformer of 19th century Maharashtra, developed a critique of Indian social order and Hinduism. He founded Satya Shodhak Samaj (‘Truth-Seeking Society') in Pune (Maharashtra) in 1873.
  
  

• This Society was established to organize the lower castes against the Hindu social order based on varna and caste system.
  
  
• In place of exploitative Indian social order, Phule wanted to establish a society founded on principles of individual liberty and equality and in place of Hinduism he would have liked to put universal religion.
   

Therefore, option (3) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | Social and Religious Reform Movements