UPSC · Prelims and Mains
Modern Indian History
← Socio-religious reform and caste movementsRammohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj and Young Bengal
- Rammohan Roy: Atmiya Sabha 1815, Precepts of Jesus, campaign against sati and Bentinck's Regulation XVII of 1829, respect for Eastern philosophy with a rational modern outlook
- Brahmo Sabha 1828: monotheism, opposition to idolatry and priestly mediation, no claim of Vedic infallibility after 1850
- Debendranath Tagore, Tattvabodhini Sabha 1839 and the Adi Brahmo Samaj
- Keshab Chandra Sen: Brahmo Samaj of India 1866, Indian Reform Association 1870, Cooch Behar marriage, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj 1878, Nava Vidhan (New Dispensation) 1879; Calcutta Unitarian Committee was Rammohan's
- Derozio and the Young Bengal movement, Academic Association, radical rationalism
