discover his separate identity. All credit is due‚ for this transformation‚ to his philosopher and guide‚ Lolita.” (Ray 174) Lolita is a Brahmo girl and Binoy is an orthodox Hindu youth. As their determination grows stronger‚ they forget “that they were Hindu or Brahmo‚ and only remembered that they were two human souls.’’ (Tagore 306) and feel that:”If love is unable to acknowledge differences‚ then why there are differences anywhere in this world?” (Tagore 306) Binoy’s marriage is not a sacrifice
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firmament. All his life‚ he fought to reform the society because he believed that social and religious reform was the very foundation of political advancement. A harbinger of the idea of universal humanism‚ an apostle of monotheism‚ the founder of the Brahmo Samaj‚ an advocate of the freedom of the press and a champion of women’s cause‚ "Ram Mohan Roy was indeed‚ what Gopal Krishna Gokhale called him‚ ’the maker of modem India’. Ram Mohan Roy was born on May 22‚ 1772 in Radhanagar‚ a village in Hoogly
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first female graduates of the British Empire along with Chandramukhi Basu. She was one of the first female physicians of South Asia to be trained in European medicine. ------------------------------------------------- Early life The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu‚ she was born at Bhagalpur‚ Bihar in British India. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur School. He and Abhay Charan Mallick started the movement for women’s emancipation at Bhagalpur‚ establishing the women’s organisation
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under British rule. He is sometimes called the maker of modern India. He along with Dwarkanath Tagor and other Bengalis founded the Brahmo Sabha in 1828 which engendered the Brahmo Samaj an influential Indian Social-religious Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education (1772–1792) 1.2 Early political and religious career (1792–1820) 1.3 Middle "Brahmo" period (1820–1830) 1.4 Life in England and death (1830–1833) 1.5 Personal 2 Religious reforms 2.1 Social Reforms of Rammohan
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sati-pratha-a practice in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself on the funeral pyre of her husband-was the prominent. His efforts were also instrumental in eradicating the purdah system and child marriage. In 1828‚ Ram Mohan Roy formed the Brahmo Samaj‚ a group of people‚ who had no faith in idol-worship and were against the caste restrictions. The title ’Raja’ was awarded to him by Mughal emperor Akbar‚ the second in 1831 when Roy visited England as an ambassador of the King to ensure that
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sustaining village economy‚ as a mode of social change. 1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy was popularly known as the ’Father of Indian Renaissance ’ was born on 22nd May 1772 in a Brahmin family in Bengal.He founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1815 and the Brahmo Samaj on 20th August 1828. Through these Institutions he fought against Orthodox Hindus
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Thakur and eventually the family name got anglicised to Tagore.Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founders of the Adi Dharm faith. The loyalist "Prince" Dwarkanath Tagore‚ who employed European estate managers and visited with Victoria and other royalty‚ was his paternal grandfather.[16] Debendranath had formulated the Brahmoist philosophies espoused by his friend Ram Mohan Roy‚ and became focal in Brahmo society after Roy’s death.[17][18] The last two days a storm has been raging‚ similar
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Died: September 27‚ 1833 Achievements: Founded Atmiya Sabha and Brahma Samaj. He played a key role in abolition‚ and Sati. He fought for the rights of women. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is known as the ’Maker of Modern India’. He was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj‚ one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. He played a major role in abolishing the role of Sati. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great scholar and an independent thinker. He advocated the study of English‚ Science‚ Western Medicine
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The study of social movements is not an area for historians alone. Sociologists studying social structure‚ processes and change would logically be interested in social movements. It is a process through which a collective attempt is made at mobilisation for change or resistance. However‚ in the context of change it differs from evolutionary process of social mobility and change in the sense that movements are based on a perception of injustice or oppression of a certain section or sections
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classical age[citation needed]‚ respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain‚ the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore‚ a leader of the Brahmo Samaj‚ which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. Tagore had early success as a writer in his native Bengal. With his translations
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