Social reformers of India

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy
was an Indian reformer
who 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.

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Ishwar Chandra
Vidyasagar , born
Ishwar Chandra
Bandyopadhyay, was
an Indian educator and
social reformer of the
nineteenth century. His
efforts to simplify and
modernise Bengali
prose were significant.

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Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati,
was a women's rights &
education activist, a pioneer in
the education and emancipation
of women in India, and a social
reformer. She was the first
woman to be awarded the titles
of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar
and Sarasvati after being
examined by the faculty of the
University of Calcutta.

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Rabindranath Tagore was a
Indian polymath - poet,
writer, playwright,
composer, philosopher,
social reformer and painter.
He reshaped Bengali
literature and music as well
as Indian art with
Contextual Modernism in
the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar,
venerated as Babasaheb,
was an Indian jurist,
economist, politician and
social reformer, who
inspired the Dalit Buddhist
movement and
campaigned against social
discrimination towards the
untouchables.

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Swami
Vivekananda, born
Narendranath
Datta, was an
Indian Hindu
monk. He was a
chief disciple of the
19th-century Indian
mystic
Ramakrishna.

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Mother Mary Teresa
Bojaxhiu, honoured in the
Catholic Church as Saint
Teresa of Calcutta, was an
Albanian-Indian Roman
Catholic nun and
missionary. She was born
in Skopje, then part of the
Kosovo Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire.

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Jyotirao Govindrao Phule
was an Indian social
activist, thinker, anti-caste
social reformer and writer
from Maharashtra. His
work extended to many
fields, including eradication
of untouchability and the
caste system and for his
efforts in educating women
and lower caste people.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
was an Indian lawyer, anti-
colonial nationalist and political
ethicist who employed
nonviolent resistance to lead
the successful campaign for
India's independence from
British rule and in turn to inspire
movements for civil rights and
freedom across the world.

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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.

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