1. SWAMI DAYANAND SARASWATI
SAWAMI DAYANAND SARASWAYI HAS BEEN A VITAL FORCE IN THE PRESENT INDIAN SOCIAL
REFORM MOVEMENT HE WAS AN ARCH REBEL WHO WAS REFUSE SUBMIT THE AUTHORITY OF
TRADITIONAL SOICIAL EVILS OF HINDU ORTHODOXY AS TAGORE WROTE ‘’ SWAMI DAYANAND THE
GREAT PATH IN MAKER IN MORDERN INDIA WHO TROUGH THE DENES UNDER GROWTH OF THE
DEGENERATE DAYS OF OUR COUNTRY – CLEAR A STRAIGHT PATH THAT MEANT TO LEAD THE
HINDUS SIMPLE AND RATIONAL LIFE OF DEPOSITION TO GOD AND SERVICE OF MAN’’.
HE PREPARED TO FOUNDAION OF INDIAN POLITICAAL INDEPENDENCE. HE STRESS ON THE
EDUCATION TO GIVE A NEW STRENGTH TO THE INDIAN PEOPLE AS ACHAMPION OF THE
REHABITATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DOWN TRODDEN . HE FOUNDED A POWERFUL
ORGANISATION ‘ARYA SAMAJ’ WHICH CARRIED ON IMPORTANT SOCIAL AND EDUCATION WORK IN
NORTHERN INDIA.
HIS BOOK-
1. SATYAPRAKASH
2. SANSKAR VIDHI
3. BHRANTI NIRMAN
SOCIAL IDEAS OF DAYANAND SARASWATI (REFORMS) –
1. CASTE SYSTEM –
DAYANAND WAS AN ADVOCATE OF VEDIC VARNASHRAM BUT HE CRITICISED BUT
ASSOCIATION WITH CASTE SYSTEM AS PRACTISED IN INDIAN IN INDIA HE MADE IT CLEAR
THAT THE DISORGANISED HINDU SOCIETY COULD NOT BE MADE TO WO0RK OUT THEY HIGH
IDOLS IN SOCIAL RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LIFE UNLESS THE UNTOUCHABILITY OR CASTE
SYSTEM BASED ON BIRTH WAS NOT REMOVED. HE ADVOCATE THE CASTE SYSTEM SHOULD
BE BASED ON CHARACTER , CONDUCT AND MERIT AND DISASSOCIATE FROM THE ACCIDENT
OF BIRTH.
ASHRAM SYSTEM –
DAYANAND HAS PRESCRIBED FOUR STAGES OF LIFE –
1. BRAHMACHARYA
2. GRAHASTHA
3. VANPRASTHA
4. SANYAS
VIEWS ON MARRIAGE –
1 . HE WANTED THE MINIMUM AGE OF MARRIAGE FOR A GIRL TO BE BETWEEN 16 AND 24 YEARS
AND FOR BOY 24 TO 28.
2. HE FAVOURED MONOGAMY.
2. 3. FAVOURED WIDOW REMARRIAGE
4. AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGE.
UPLIFTMENT OF INDIAN WOMEN –
A RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE SOCIETY
STATUES OF EQUALITY
WIDOW REMARRIAGE
PARDASYSTEM SHOULD BE PROHIBITED
EQUAL RIGHT SOCIALLY, ECONOMICLLY AND POLITICAL THE EQUALITIES IN EDUCATION, MARRIAGE
AND PROPERTY
COMPULSORY EDUCATION-
EDUCATION WAS EVERYONE BIRTH RIGHT WITHOUT AND DISCRIMINATION OF CASTE ,GREED etc.
STUDENT SHOULD REMAIN IN GURUKUL UP TO THE AGE OF 25.
1.BRAHMACHARYA