The document discusses social reform movements in 19th century India that aimed to eradicate harmful traditional practices like sati, child marriage, and untouchability. It outlines the key ideologies and objectives of reformist organizations like the Arya Samaj, founded by Swami Dayanand Saraswati, the Brahmo Samaj established by Raja Rammohan Roy, and the Ramakrishna Mission led by Swami Vivekananda, all of which advocated for women's rights and education as well as widow remarriage. These leaders and their societies played an important role in India's social awakening during this period.

2. Nineteenth
century is the period of turmoil in Indian society. The old
traditions and practices were degraded and these were replaced
by many social evils.
like: :- Sati, Child-marriage, Caste system, Purdan, Ban on
female education and widow re-marriage etc.
INTRODUCTION

3. India has a
long history of social
reform movement

4. Social Movement : Different scholar
define social movement in there own terms and
put forth their ideas,
CONCEPT OF SOCIAL REFORM
MOVEMENTS

5. There have been
some common point on
which all the scholars
comes together
Ideology
Agenda
StrategyOrganization
Leadership

6.  Identify some common characteristics of religious and
social reform movement;
 Explain the ideology of the Arya Samaj and its
contributors to social and religious reforms;
 Explain the role played by Raja Rammohan Roy and his
Brahmo Samaj in bringing about religious reforms;
 Examine the contribution of the Ramakrishna mission
to India’s awakening in the nineteenth century;
 Recognise the Prathana Samaj as an institution that
worked for religious as well as social reforms;
OBJECTIVES OF SOCIAL REFORM
MOVEMENT

8.  He was born on 22 may 1774 in a
Brahmin family of Bengal.
 Brahmo Samaj movement was
founded by Raja Rammohan Roy in
1828.
 He learnt many languages, he was
in the service of East India
company, he went to England
during the time of Akbar II,
Mughal emperor gave him title
Raja.
 He proclaimed that there is only
one God for all religious and for all
humanity, he was promoter of
English education.
 Raja Rammohan Roy was also
deeply apposed to the caste system.

BRAHMO SAMAJ AND RAJA
RAMMOHAN ROY

9.  The basic contribution of
Mool Shankar an important
representative of the religious
reform movement in India
from Gujrat, he later come to
be known as Dayanand
Saraswati.
 The country and in 1875
founded the Arya Samaj in
Bombay Satyarth prakash was
his most important book.
 Arya Samaj’s apposed child
marriages and encouraged
remarriage of widows.
SWAMI DAYANAND SARASWATI
AND ARYA SAMAJ

10.  The Prarthana Samaj was established in
Bombay by Dr. Atma Ram Pandurang in
1876 with the objective of rational
worship and social reform two greater
members of this Samaj were Shri R..C
Bhandarkar and justice Mahadev,
Govind Ranade.
They devoted themselves to the
work of social reform such as inter-caste
doing dining inter-caste marriage widow
remarriages and imowerment of the lot of
women and depressed classes.
PRARTHANA SAMAJ AND
RANADE

11. Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya was a poor Bhrahmin
priest who later came to be known as
Ramakrishna Paramahansa.
Narendra Nath Datt later known Vivekanand was
the most devoted pupil of Ramakrishna
Paramahansa who carried the message of his
Guru Ramkrishana all over world, specially in
America and Europe.
He promoted the Vedanta philosophy which he
considered the most rational system. He founded
the Ramakrishna mission in 1897. The mission to
date has played an important role in providing
social service in time of national distress like
famine, floods and epidemic, many Schools,
Hospital, Orphanages are run by it.
In 1893 he participated in the All World Religious
Conference at chicago. He argued that Vedanta
was the religious of all and not of the Hindu
alone.
THE RAMAKRISHNA MISSION AND SWAMI
VIVEKANAND

12.  Since the time, India was grappling with troubles, some
veteran people started some movement for improving the
status of Indian specially women as they are easily
targeted by higher class people and sometimes by the
people of their community as well .so some legends like
RAJA RAM MOHAN, DAYANAND SARASWATI,
ANNIE BESANT and also some other legends thought
to take a step against the heinous rituals which were
against the humanity and also threatening the innocent
people and some of them were SATI PRATHA, CHILD
MARRIAGE, and UNTOUCHABLE tried to eradicate
these tyrannical rituals and to some extent they were
successful in their job.
CONCLUSION