The Parsi social reformer Behramji M. Malabari campaigned all his life against child marriage and “enforced widowhood”. He founded the Seva Sadan as a social reform and humanitarian...
Paramahansa Mandali was founded by Dadoba Panderung (1842-82) and Bal Shastri Jambhekar of Maharashtra in 1849. Dadoba in his book Dharma Vivechan, outlined seven principles of this new...
Mukund Das, known as Mahima Gosain, founded the Satya Mahima Dharma in the 1860s, assisted mainly by Govinda Baba and Bhima Bhoi. Mahima Gosain preached the existence of...
There were two of them: the Madras Hindu Social Reforms Association founded by Veresalingam Pantulu (1848-1939) in 1892, and the Madras. Hindu Association founded by Mrs. Annie Besant...
This sect was founded in 1887 at Lahore by Shiv Narain Agnihotri, an erstwhile follower of Brahmo Samaj. The teachings of the Samaj were compiled in book form...
Radhaswami Movement was founded in 1861 by Tulsi Ram, of Agra, a banker by profession. Tulsi Ram was also popularly known as Shiv Dayal Saheb or Swamiji Maharaj....
To counter the challenge from the Muslim League, founded in 1906, the politically conscious Hindus founded the Punjab Hindu Conference in 1909. In 1915, at its annual meeting,...
Swami Narayan sect was launched by Swami Sahajanand in Gujarat in beginning of the 19th century. He preached a puritanical ideology both of belief and practice. This sect...
Bharat Dharma Mahamandala was a prominent Hindu organization founded by Pandit Din Dayalu Sharma in Hardwar in 1887, who also founded the Hindu College, Delhi, on May 15,...
The Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott in New York in 1875. The founders arrived in India in January 1879, and established the headquarters...
The Ramakrishna Mission was established in 1897 by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The first Math was established at Baranagar. In 1899, another ‘math’...
Raja Rammohan Roy’s Brahmo Samaj and the Arya Samaj led by Swami Dayanand were the two prominent socio-religious movements of India in the 19th century. Both the organisations...
