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- 1. Religious and Social Reformers of India
- 2. Religious and Social Reformers • Made people think in a new way. • Against Social Problems of those days like- 1. Sati 2. Child Marriage 3. Caste Differences 4. Women were not educated
- 4. • Raja Rammohun Roy • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar • Veerasalingam Pantulu • Swami Dayanand Saraswati • Tarabai Shinde • Pandita Ramabai • Periyar • Shri Narayana Guru • Jyoti Rao Phule • B.R Ambedkar
- 5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian subcontinent. He was given the title of Raja by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor.
- 6. Raja Ram Mohan Roy ● Wanted girls to get educated, not to get married early ● Opened schools to promote modern learning ● Fight against Sati ○ Abolished in 1829 ● Brahmo Samaj ○ Society which worships Brahman. ○ No idol worship, no caste restrictions.
- 7. Swami Dayanand Saraswati Dayananda Saraswati was an Indian philosopher, social leader and founder of the Arya Samaj, a reform movement of the Vedic dharma. He was the first to give the call for Swaraj as "India for Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak.
- 8. Swami Dayanand Saraswati ● Believed in changing the society by education ○ Established schools (DAV: Dayanand Anglo Vedic) ● Arya Samaj ○ Society of nobles ○ Started in 1875 ○ Against: Caste discrimination, idol worship, child marriage ○ Simple prayers
- 9. Pandita Ramabai Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati female feminist, women's right & education activist, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India, and a social reformer.
- 10. Pandita Ramabai ● Poet, Social reformer ● Fought for women’s rights ● Women were not encouraged to study ○ Her father educated his wife (mother of Ramabai), facing stiff resistance from people ○ She started schools for women ● Arya Mahila Samaj (Society of noble women) ● Sharda Sadan (Shelter home for widows)
- 11. Tarabai Shinde Tarabai Shinde was a feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India. She is known for her published work, Stripurush Tulana, originally published in Marathi in 1882. The pamphlet is a critique of upper-caste patriarchy, and is often considered the first modern Indian feminist text.
- 12. Tarabai Shinde Tarabai Shinde was a social reformer and women's condition in which she blamed men for the pathetic conditions of women. She said that man conspired against women to maintain his dominance. Some reformers criticized her view. Amongst them were Phule's colleagues.