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Socio-religious reform movements

Socio-religious reform movements for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 2 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions, and every paragraph is explained in Tamil.

Quick recap: Quick recap: Socio-religious reform movements on one page

Both parts of the chapter condensed for quick revision: Rammohun Roy, the Brahmo Samaj and the abolition of sati, Vidyasagar and the reform laws, the Prarthana Samaj and women's education, the Arya Samaj, the Ramakrishna Mission and the Theosophical Society, the Aligarh and Deoband movements, Sikh and Parsi reform, the anti-caste movements, and the limits and gains of reform.

Parts of this chapter

Part 1

Reformers of Bengal and western India, and the reform laws

Why the reform movements arose; Raja Rammohun Roy, the abolition of sati (1829) and the Brahmo Samaj and its splits; Young Bengal; Vidyasagar and the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act (1856); the Paramahansa Mandali and the Prarthana Samaj; women's education and the reform laws up to the Age of Consent Act (1891); and the limits of early reform. Part 2

Revivalist, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi and anti-caste movements

Dayanand Saraswati and the Arya Samaj (1875), the DAV and Gurukul streams and shuddhi; Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and the Ramakrishna Mission (1897); the Theosophical Society and Annie Besant; Syed Ahmad Khan and the Aligarh movement, Deoband (1866) and the Ahmadiyya (1889); the Singh Sabhas and the Rahnumai Mazdayasnan Sabha; Phule and the Satyashodhak Samaj (1873), Sree Narayana Guru and the SNDP Yogam (1903), the Self-Respect Movement (1925); and the significance and limits of the reform movements.

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