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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The book ‘Gandhi’s contribution to the emancipation of women’ by Aloo J. Dastur and Usha H. Mehta focuses on the work done for the women of India. And how much did Gandhi contribute towards their emancipation. The book has altogether 5 chapters‚ starting with the first chapter which is ‘Position of women in before Gandhi’. Chapter 2‚ 3‚ 4 is about ‘Social regeneration’‚ ‘Economic regeneration’‚ and ‘Political regeneration’ of the women in our Indian Society when Gandhi came into the scene. And
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Arya Stark is a bonafide tomboy. In the first episode of the show‚ Arya is watching her brother bran practice with his bow and arrow. When Bran goes to take a shot after being teased by his brothers‚ Arya shoots from several feet behind Bran and makes a bullseye. The entire time I was reading this I was thinking “This is me!” When my family would go to the beach‚ I would go with my stepdad and uncle and follow them far out into the ocean while my mom and sisters stayed closer to shore. As a kid‚
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priority in addressing social inequalities. Satyashodhak Samaj On 24 September 1873‚ Jotirao formed ’Satya Shodhak Samaj’ (Society of Seekers of Truth) with himself as its first president and treasurer. The main objectives of the organisation were to liberate the Shudras and Ati Shudras and to prevent their ’exploitation’ by the upper caste like Brahmans. Through this Satya Shodhak Samaj‚ Jotirao refused to regard the Vedas as sacrosanct. He opposed idolatry and
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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 district
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BIOGRAPHY OF MAHATMA PHULE by Dr. Y. D. Phadke. for the bo... http://www.dalitstan.org/books/slavery/slavry_b.html 1 of 6 6/23/2005 1:02 PM ------- O ------- Slavery by Mahatma Phule ------- O ------- Biography of Mahatma Phule Dr.Y.D. Phadke. [This brief Life Sketch of Mahatma Jotirao Phule is written by the noted the scholar Dr.Y.D. Phadke. He is the editor of the Collected Words of Mahatma Phule in Marathi. He is also an eminent scholar of Mahatma Phule and the Satyashodhak Movement
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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 Bentick’s
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Hindu Culture and indicated the lines of progrees for Indian Society 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)
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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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------------------------------------------------- Kadambini Ganguly Kadambini Ganguly (1861 – 3 October 1923) was one of the 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
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