Assertion (A): Veeresalingam Pantulu was the earliest champion in South India of women’s emancipation.
Reason (R) : Veeresalingam opened his first girls’ school in 1874 and made widow remarriage and female education the key points of his programme for social reform.
(a) A and R are wrong
(b) A is correct and R is Wrong
(c) A is correct and R explains A
(d) A is correct and R does not explain A
