2. SOCIO - RELLIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS

 2. SOCIO - RELLIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENTS


-Raja Rammohan Roy and the Brahmo samaj

-He is consiered as the first modern man of india.

-Born in 1772 in the hoogly district of Bengal, he inculcated a brilliant freedom of thoght and rationality, He praeched ath there is only one god.

He studied the Bible as well as Hindu and muslim religious texts..he had exclent command over many languages including English, sankrit, persian, Arabic, French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

-In 1815, he established the Atmiya sabha The work of the Atmiya sabha was carried on by Mahasrshi Debendranath Tagore (father of Rabindranath Tagore) who renamed it as Brahmo samaj. He turned the Brhamo samaj in to a leading social organisation of india. later it was developed in to the Brahmo sabha in August 1828.

-In 1817, he founded ht Hindu college (now presidency college, calcutta) along with david hare, a missionary.

-Rammaohan Roy started the first Bengali weekly samvad kaumudi and edited a persion weekly Miral-ul -akhbar.

-Rammohan deid in Bristol in Engalnd in 1833.


The Young Bengal Movement

-Henry vivian Derozio was founder of the young Bengal Movement , He was born in calcutta. He died of cholera in 1833.

- His followeres were Known as the Derozians nd thier movements the young Bengal Movement, They attacked old  traditions and decadent customs, They also advocated women's rights and their Education.



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