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Social Reform Movements Flashcards

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Akshay Kumar Dutt

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  • Brought Medical opinion to support against child marriage.
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Reformists

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  • Brahmo Samaj :
  • Prarthana Samaj :
  • Aligarh Movement :
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Revivalists

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  • Arya Samaj :

- Deobandi Movement :

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Sati

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  • Due to force of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, William Bentick abolished Sati in 1829.
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Female Infanticide

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Bengal regulations of 1795 and 1804 declared it equivalent to murder

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Widow Remarriage

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  • Brahmo Samaj have it high on agenda
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar responsible for Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856
  • Vishnu Shastri Pandit founded Widow Remarriage Association.
  • Karsandas Mulji started Satya Prakash in Gujarati in 1852.
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  • Responsible for Widow Remarriage Act 1856
  • Principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta
  • 35+ girl schools
  • Secretary of Bethune School
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

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Founder Widow Remarriage Association

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Vishnu Shastri Pandit

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Started Satya Prakash in Gujarati in 1852 to advocate widow remarriage

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Karsandas Mulji

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  • Widow Remarriage in Western India
  • Married a widow in 1893
  • Secretary of Widow Remarriage Association
  • Opened Widow homes in Poona with vocational training
  • Opened Indian Women’s University in 1916
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D K Karve

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  • Widow Remarriage in Madras
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Veerasalingam Panthulu

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  • Responsible for Age of Consent Act 1891
  • Parsi reformer
  • Founded Seva Sadan
  • Indian Spectator
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B M Malabari

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Rukmabhai Case

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  • First woman Physician
  • Married Dadaji Bhikaji at 11 but didnt live with him
  • Refused to join him later.
  • Firstly Justice Pinhey dismissed Bhikaji
  • Overturned by Chief Justice Sargent and Rukmabhai asked to live with husband.
  • Queen Victoria’s intervention
  • Defence Committee formed by Malabari and Ramabai Ranade
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Sarda Act 1930

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Child Marriage Restraint Act

Age to 18, 14 for boys and girls

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Bethune School

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First fruit of powerful movement for women’s education

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Jagannath Shankarsheth Nana and Bhau Daji

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Women’s education schools in Maharashtra

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Jyotiba Phule and Savtriba Phule

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Opened school for girls in Bhidewada, Pune in 1848 with his wife as teacher

  • Satyashodak Samaj in 1873
  • Wrote Sarvajanik Satyadharma and Gulamgiri
  • Given title of Mahatma by Vithalrao Krishnaji Vandekar
  • Aryan Invasion Theory
  • Balahatya Pratibandhak Griha started in 1863
  • Savitribai wrote Kavyaphule and Bavankashi Subodh Ratnakar
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Alexandra Society of Parsis, 1893

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Parsis girls education

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First Woman graduate of Bombay University

India’s first lady barrister

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Cornelia Sorabji

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Lord Dalhousie, Wood’s Despatch

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Laid stress on woman education

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Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad

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Sarla Devi Chaudhurani

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Ladies Social Conference(Bharat Mahila Parishad), 1904 in Bombay

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Ramabai Ranade

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Arya Mahila Samaj

Resulted in medical education for women in Dufferin College

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Pandita Ramabai Saraswati

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National Council of Women in India

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Mehribai Tata

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All India Women’s Conference 1927

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Margaret Cousins

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Gopal Baba Walangkar

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  • Pioneer in movement to uplift untouchable people
  • Founded Anarya Dosh Parihar Mandali
  • First Dalit to launch newspaper, Vital Vidhvasak
  • Wrote Hindu Dharma Darpan
  • Sudharak and Deenbandhu
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Kisan Faguji Bansod

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  • Upliftment of Dalits
  • Opened press for journals awakening Dalits
  • Chokhamela girls school
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  • Wrote Mooknayak in 1920
  • Formed Bahushkrit Hitakarani Sabha in 1924
  • Led Mahad Satyagraha in 1927(drank water from tank)
  • Burnt Manusmriti
  • Wrote Bahishkrit Bharat in 1927
  • All India Scheduled Castes Federation in 1942
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Babasaheb Ambedkar

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Maharaja of Kolhapur

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Non brahmin Movement joined by Kammas, Reddis, Muslims

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Self Respect Movement

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1920s South India, Non brahmins

- EV Ramaswamy Naicker

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Narayana Guru, Kerala

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Sree Narayan Guru Dharma Paripalana Movement
Aruvippuram Movement
- One religion, One Caste, One God for mankind

His disciple Sahadaran Ayyapan changed it to “No religion, No caste, No God for Mankind”

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Raja Rammohan Roy

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  • Father of Indian Renaissance
  • Gift to Monotheists
  • Setup Atmiya Sabha in 1814
  • Established Vedanta College in 1825
  • Founded Brahmo Samaj in 1828
  • Anti Sati
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Raja Radhakant Deb

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  • Opposed Raja Rammohan Roy

- Established Dharma Sabha

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Debendranath Tagore

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  • Father of Rabindranath Tagore

- Headed Tattvabodini Sabha

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Brahmo Samaj, 1828

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  • Brahmo Samaj : Raja Rammohan Roy
  • Adi Brahmo Samaj : Debendranath Tagore
  • Brahmo Samaj of India : Keshab Chandra Sen
  • Sadharan Brahmo Samaj : Ananda Mohan Bose, Sib Chandra Deb, Umesh Chandra Dutta
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Prathana Samaj, 1867

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  • Atmaram Pandurang with help of KC Sen on lines of Brahmo Samaj
  • MG Ranade main leader
  • RG Bhandarkar, NG Chandavarkar
  • DK Karve, Vishnu Shastri, Ranade pioneered Widow Remarriage Movement
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Young Bengal Movement

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Henry Vivian Derozio, teacher of Hindu College

First Nationalist poet of Modern India

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  • Started newspaper Darpan
  • Father of Marathi Journalism
  • Started Digdarshan
  • Founded Bombay Native General Library
  • Started Native Improvement Society
  • First Professor of Hindi at Elphinston College
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Balshastri Jambhekar

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Paramhansa Mandali, Maharashtra

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Founded in 1849 by Dadoba Pandurang, Mehtaji Durgaram

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Vitthal Ramji Shinde

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  • Established night school for untouchable in 1905 in Pune
  • Established Depressed Classes Mission in Bombay
  • Bharatiya Asprushyatecha Prashna
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Gopal Hari Deshmukh ‘Lokahitawadi’

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  • Journal Prabhakar

- Weekly Hitechhu

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Gopal Ganesh Agarkar

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Co founder of New English School, Deccan Education Society, Fergusson College

  • First editor of Tilak’s Kesari
  • Started Sudharak against castism
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Servants of India Society

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Founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905 with help of MG Ranade
- Hitavada published

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Narayan Malhar Joshi

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  • Founded Social Service League
  • Founded All India Trade Union Congress
  • Follower of Gokhale
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Ramakrishna Mission

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  • Childhood name of Ramakrishna Paramhansa is Gadadhar Chattopadhyay
  • Sardamani Mukherjee : Sardadevi : Divine Mother
  • Childhood name of Vivekananda is Narendra Nath Dutta
  • Parliament of Religions held at Chicago in 1893.
  • Belur Math in 1897
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Dayanand Saraswati

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  • Called Mulshankar
  • Founded Arya Samaj in 1875
  • Satyarth Prakash
  • Back to Vedas
  • Received education from blind teacher Swami Virajananda in Mathura
  • Marriage age : 25, 16 for boys and girls
  • Shuddi Movement
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Arya Samaj Split

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  • Dayanand Anglo Vedic schools curriculum
  • College(Culture) Party vs Gurukul(Mahatma) Party

College Party : Favored Government English curriculum
Lala Hansraj, Lala LalChand, Lala Lajpat Rai
Took over DAV schools

Mahatma Party : Favored Gurukul indigenous system of education
Guru Datta Vidyarthi, Swami Shraddhananda

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Dev Samaj

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Shiv Narayan Agnihotri in 1887

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Bharat Dharma Mahamandala

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Madan Mohan Malaviya

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Radhaswami Movement

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Shiv Dayal Saheb(Tulsi Ram)

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Vokkaliga Sanga

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Anti Brahmin movement in Mysore

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Justice Movement

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CN Muralidhar, TM Nair, P Tyagaraja

Seperate representation for lower castes in legislature

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Temple Entry Movement

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  • TK Madhavan : Deshabhimani
  • Vaikom Satyagraha : KP Keshava : 1924 : Gandhi supported

K Kelappan, P Krishna Pillai, AK Gopalan leaders

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Indian Social Conference

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MG Ranade and Raghunath Rao

Pledge Movement against child marriage

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Wahabi Movement

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Revivalist movement of Islam

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Titu Mir’s Movement

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Adopted Wahabism and advocated Sharia

Organised peasant revolt against Indigo planters

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Faraizi Movement

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East Bengal movement
Haji Shariatullah
Fight Zamindars

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Ahmadiyya Movement

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  • Mirza Ghulam Ahmed in 1889

Opposing Jihad

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Aligarh Movement

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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- Tahdhib-ul-Akhlaq

Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College, Aligarh

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Deoband School

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Revivalist movement at Darul Uloom in UP

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Parsi Movements

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Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha founded in 1851

  • Rast Goftar newspaper
  • Most westernised section of Indian society
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Sikh Reform Movements

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Singh Sabha Movement, 1873

Akali Movement to control corruption

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Theosophical Movement

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Madame HP Blavatsky and MS Olcott in NYC, US in 1875

  • Annie Besant laid foundation of Central Hindu College in Benaras
  • Led to formation of Benaras Hindu University in 1916

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