SOCIO RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS

Question 1

Swaminarayan Sampradyaga.
People associated with it and nature and objectives, and Media Efforts?

Answer 1

• Swami Sahajanand (original name Gyanashyama).
• Belief in a theistic god; protest against epicurean practices of Vaishnavism; prescribed a moral code.

Question 2

Journals by Raja Rammohan Roy?

Answer 2

1. Sambad Kaumudi
2. Mirat-ul-Akbar.

Question 3

Journals by Sadharan Brahmo Samaj?

Answer 3

1. Tattva Kaumudi
2. The Indian Messenger
3. The Sanjibari
4. The Navyabharat
5. Prabasi.

Question 4

People associated with Young Bengal Movement (1826-1831)?

Answer 4

1. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (founder)
2. Rasikkrishna Mullick
3. Tarachand Chucker-vati
4. Krishnamohan Banerjee

Question 5

Nature and Objectives and Media Efforts of Young Bengal Movement (1826-31)?

Answer 5

• Opposed the vices in society.
• Believed in truth, freedom and reason.
• Brought out the Jnanavesan (journal) and established the Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge.

Question 6

Journals associated with Henry Louis Vivian Derozio?

Answer 6

He edited Hesperus, The Calcutta Gazette and he was associated with India Gazette.

Question 7

People associated with Wahabi Movement?

Answer 7

1. Syed Ahmed Rai of Bareilly (founder)
2. Vilayat Ali
3. Shah Muhammad Hussain
4. Farhat Hussain (all from Patna)
5. Inayat Ali.

Question 8

Namdhari or Kuka Movement (among sikhs); NWF Province and Bhaini (Ludhiana district, Punjab) (1841-1871) people associated with it and nature and objectives and media efforts?

Answer 8

• Bhai Balak Singh and Baba Ram Singh.
• For political and social reforms among the sikhs.

Question 9

Taayuni Movement– people associated with it and nature and objectives and media efforts?

Answer 9

• Founded in Dacca (1839).
• Karamat Ali Jaunpuri.
• Religious teachings of Shah Walliullah formed the basis; opposed Faraizi movement.

Question 10

Students Literary and Scientific Society (1848) was an offshoot of?

Answer 10

Native Improvement Society.

Question 11

People associated with Radhaswami Movement?

Answer 11

• Founded in Agra (1861)
• Tulsi Ram or Shiv Dayal Saheb (Swamiji Maharaj—founder).

Question 12

Indian Reform Association was founded by?

Answer 12

• Keshub Chandra Sen in Calcutta (1870).
• To create public opinion against child marriage; for uplift of social status of women; to legalise Brahmo type of marriage.

Question 13

Journal Tahzib-al-akhlaq was founded by?

Answer 13

Urdu Journal (1870) by Syed Ahmed Khan.

Question 14

Deva Samaj was founded by?

Answer 14

• Shiv Narain Agnihotri in Lahore (1887).
• Religious ideas closer to those of Brahmo Samaj; favoured a social code of conduct that was against bribe taking, gambling, alcohol consumption and having vegetarian food.

Question 15

Madras Hindu Association was founded by?

Answer 15

• In 1892 by Veeresalingam Pantulu.
• Social purity movement; against devadasi system and oppression of widows.

Question 16

Poona Seva Sadan was founded by?

Answer 16

• Founded in 1909 by Ramabai Ranade and G.K. Devadhar.
• Economic uplift; employment for women.

Question 17

Nishkam Karma Math (Monastery of Disinterested Work) was founded by?

Answer 17

Dhondo Keshav Karve in Pune (1910).

Question 18

Seva Samiti was founded by?

Answer 18

Hridyanath Kunzru; Allahabad (1914).

Question 19

The Indian Women’s Association was founded by?

Answer 19

Madras (1917) by Annie Besant.