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Indian society suffered from certain social evils and the more prominent among these evils were related to women and the caste system. Between the two forms of inequalities, gender based inequality has been most common. With the dawn of the modern age, the attempts to eradicate inequalities acquired momentum.

Many reformers emerged in almost each and every part of India and took up the cause of women, the downtrodden and the untouchables in particular.

They struggled to bring about a change in the attitude of the people and in the policies of the government. They adopted political, educational and economic means. The reformers of the 19th century set the pace which is still going on. Bhandarkar, and M. Ranade led to its reinterpretation. What ensued was a cultural and spiritual rediscovery of India. Indian intellectuals thus realised the need for socio-religious reform to purge the Indian society of its ills.

The early reform movements laid emphasis on both social and religious transformation of society. The reason is not hard to seek. Social customs and traditions of India are generally closely linked to religious injunctions, arising from religious beliefs and traditions in many cases.

Indian reformers understood this close interaction between the social and religious spheres of thoughts and activity. The 18th and 19th century reform movements display some major trends.

Some of the reformers were of the view that reforms should be initiated from within the society. Some others believed in legislative intervention-that is, only state-supported reform movements could prove effective. With this concern in mind, the activities were undertaken by men like Keshab Chandra Sen, M.

Ranade and others. The Young Bengal Movement represented reform initiated through symbols of transformation. It represented aradical trend in reform activity, without relying upon the cultural traditions of India for reform. Reform through social work was undertaken by many social reformers including Dayanand Saraswati and Swami Vivekananda. He condemned idolatry and polytheism in religion.

In , he wrote Tuhfat-i-Muwahidin Gift to Monotheists. The Brahmo Samaj was founded on the principle of reason as found in the Vedas and Upanishads. It emphasised monotheism. Stressing on love for mankind and service to men. It opposed, ritual, superstition, sati and the caste system. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the champion of women's rights and always protected them. He advocated widow remarriage and education for women. It was largely due to his efforts that sati was declared a punishable offence when William Bentinck passed an Act against the same in December Despite deference to Western opinion , leaders of the Brahmo Samaj defended Hinduism against the attacks of Christian missionaries.

One might describe the Brahmo Samaj strategy as immunizing Hinduism against Occidental infection by a In this he differed from his precursors in organized Hinduism , the leaders of the Brahmo Samaj.

The two most prominent leader of the Brahmo Samaj The headquarter was later shifted to Lahore. Accepted were Debendranath Tagore, who joined the Samaj in the authority of the Vedas but sanctioned by rationalism and Keshab Chandra After Keshav Chandra's death in , drew round him students of the Hindu College and no leader of his grand stature arose.

Mahadev Govind Ranade, R. Bhandarkar and V. The Sadharan Samaj allied with the movement of Verasalingam , a Telugu reformer , in Andhra , with groups in Bangalore , and also continued to expand in Bengal.

The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in This is a scholarly book mainly concerned with the Brahmo Samaj of India, the sect led by Keshab, which separated from the original Brahmo Samaj, led by Devendranath Tagore, in , and with the New Dispensation sect led by Keshab after the split which emerged in the Brahmo Samaj of India in The author's interest is in the religious life of these groups rather than in their theology, and he comments that the emphasis of previous writing has been biographical and doctrinal.

There is much detailed information about liturgical and devotional changes. These were many: Keshab was ever anxious to gain converts, but the author argues convincingly that the use of Bengali for liturgical purposes and of English for public lectures meant that in northern India the Brahmo Samaj continued to appeal only to the Bengali middle class rather than to local people who spoke Hindi or Panjabi.

A bold retelling of the origins of contemporary Hinduism, and an argument against the long-established notion of religious reform. By the early eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire was in decline, and the East India Company was making inroads into the subcontinent.

A century later Christian missionaries, Hindu teachers, Muslim saints, and Sikh rebels formed the colorful religious fabric of colonial India. Along the way he sketches a radical new view of the origins of contemporary Hinduism and overturns the idea of religious reform. Hinduism Before Reform challenges the rigid structure of revelation-schism-reform-sect prevalent in much history of religion.

Reform, in particular, plays an important role in how we think about influential Hindu movements and religious history at large. Through the lens of reform, one doctrine is inevitably backward-looking while another represents modernity. When I saw this novel in the library in no time I picked it up.

Plot summary:. Set in the era of early 19 th century this novel is one of a complex novel was written by Tagore. The story starts with Binoy, an educated man summoning by love hearing a Baul singer. At the same time, he met a beautiful girl named as Sucharita and fall in love with her. Later he finds that she is the next door neighbour. Binoy becomes friend with her younger brother Satish which makes an easy entry to her house and meet her family. Soon, they found that they belong to the different community.

Binoy is a follower of Hinduism, worships the idols while Sucharita follows Brahmo Samaj, who does not believe in idol worshiping.