Q. Which of the following is/are correctly matched?

Persons	Events
1. Keshab Chandra Sen	Prarthana Samaj
2. Mahadev Govind Ranade	Brahmo Samaj
3. Swami Vivekanand	Ramakrishna Mission

Answer: 1 and 3 only
Notes: • Prarthana Samaj was a movement for religious and social reform in Bombay based on earlier reform movements. Prarthana Samaj was founded by Atmaram Pandurang in 1867 when Kesab Chandra sen visited Maharashtra.
• Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic. It was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath Tagore.
• Vivekananda went on lecture tours and held private discourses on Hinduism and spirituality. He also founded the first Vedanta Society in the United States at New York. He returned to India in 1897 and founded the Ramakrishna Mission on 1 May 1897.

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