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Social and Religious Reform Movements - Short Trick

Body, founder, year and place — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Bengal Renaissance

Ram Mohan Roy’s first circle to the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, the leaders of each wing, Young Bengal and the Dharma Sabha.

Trick 1

From Atmiya Sabha to the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

➜ oldest to newest — 1815 → 1878

Atul adds brown sauce.

  1. 1Atmiya Sabha1815 — Ram Mohan Roy
  2. 2Adi Brahmo Samaj1866 — Devendranath Tagore
  3. 3Brahmo Samaj of India1866 — Keshab Chandra Sen
  4. 4Sadharan Brahmo Samaj1878 — Ananda Mohan Bose, Shivnath Shastri

In between — Hindu College (1817, David Hare, with Roy’s help) · Vedanta College (1825, Roy) · Brahmo Sabha (1828, later the Brahmo Samaj) · Sati abolished (1829). Roy’s first philosophical work: the Persian Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin.

Pairs

Brahmo wings and Bengal bodies — whose

5 sentences

Adil and Dev are old friends.

Adi Brahmo Samaj (1866)=Devendranath Tagore — the older, moderate wing

Bright kesar milk

Brahmo Samaj of India (1866)=Keshab Chandra Sen — the radical wing · later the Indian Reform Association (1870) and Nava Vidhan

Salim and Anand walked away.

Sadharan Brahmo Samaj (1878)=Ananda Mohan Bose and Shivnath Shastri — broke away from Keshab

Young Derek asks questions.

Young Bengal=Henry Vivian Derozio — teacher at Hindu College (1826–31) · his students formed the Academic Association

Dharam met Radha.

Dharma Sabha (1830)=Radhakant Deb — orthodox · opposed the abolition of Sati, yet promoted Western education for girls

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar — Secretary of the Bethune School (1849, Calcutta’s first girls’ school) · set up some 35 girls’ schools · his campaign won the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856.

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Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna and Theosophy

Founders, years and places of the Hindu reform bodies, and the journey of the Theosophical Society.

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Societies of Western India

The reform and service bodies of Bombay and Poona — the order they came in and who founded each.

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Caste Reform and the South

Four bodies against untouchability in order, and the founders of the southern movements.

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Muslim, Sikh and Parsi Reform

The order of the Muslim bodies and the Sikh movements, their founders, and the Parsi reform association.

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Laws Against Social Evils

Four marriage laws in order, which Governor-General stopped which evil, and the ages of marriage.

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