Veda Samaj was established by Keshab Chandra Sen and K. Sridharalu Naidu when the former visited Madras in 1864. K. Sridharalu Naidu later visited Calcutta to study the...
In early 19th century, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule organized a powerful non-Brahmin movement. He was born in 1828 in a Mali family and his education, personal experience and association...
Jyotiba Phule was regarded as the father of Indian Social Revolution. He was a thinker, educationist, social activist and the first reformer to stand against the caste system...
Prarthana Samaj was founded by Dr Atmaram Pandurang in 1867 when Keshab Chandra Sen visited Maharashtra. Another leader of Prarthana Samaj was R.G. Bhandarkar. In I870, Justice Mahadev...
Young Bengal Movement was launched by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831), who had come to Calcutta in 1826 and was appointed in the Hindu College as a teacher...
Young Bengal Movement was launched during the late 1820s under the influence of a radical teacher Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. The Movement originated in the Hindu college, Calcutta...
Socio-religious reforms in the 19th century provided the soil for growth of Indian Nationalism. The main reason of emergence of the reform movements was spread of western education...
This movement, centred around Patna was an Islamic revivalist movement, whose stress was to condemn any change into the original Islam and return to its true spirit. The movement was...
Wahabi movement in India was founded by Syed Ahmed Barelvi during 1830s. The movement aimed at removing all the un-Islamic practices that had crept into the religion under...
This sect was founded by Haji Shariatullah in Bengal. Haji Shariatullah advocated the radical changes in religious, political and social changes in Bengal, because the Islam got degraded...
Haji Shariatullah was the founder of the ‘Faraizi Movement’ in the year 1818. ‘Faraizi’ signifies duties that one must perform mandatorily as authorized by the supreme Islamic god....
The Satnami sect was founded by a saint named “Birbhan” in 1657 in Narnaul in Haryana. The major religious activity of this sect is to chant and meditate...
