social

• the veda samaj was inspired by brahmo samaj
• Ramakrishna Paramahansa is the teacher of Swami Vivekananda
• women who were educated were said to become widows
• Jyothirao Phule wrote the book gulamgiri
• women who chose death at the funeral pyre of their husbands were known as sati
• sati means virtuous women
• the practise of sati was seen as the evidence of barbarism of the east
• the upper caste we brahmans and kshatriyas
• traders and money lenders were known as vaishyas
• pheasants and artisans like weavers and potters were shudras
• people who cleaned the villages were considered polluting and untouchables
• raja rammohun roy was a reformer who found the brahmo samaj
• brahmo samaj was established in culcutta
• brahmo samaj was found on 1830
• raja rammohun roy was well versed in sanskrit and persian
• sati was banned in 1829
• ishwarachandra vidyasagar used ancient texts to suggest that widows could remarry
• a law was passed in 1856 peritting widow remarriage
• in the Telugu speaking areas of the madras presidency,veerasalingam pantulu found an association for widow remarriage
• int he north swami dayanda saraswathi found the arya samaj in 1875
• vidyasagar set up schools for girls in culcutta
• most women were taught by liberal fathers and husbands
• arya samaj established schools for girls punjab
• jyothiprao phule established schools for girls in Maharashtra
• in the Muslim households of north India women were taught to read koran in arabic
• mumtaz ali reinterpreted koran to argue for women's education
• begums of Bhopal played a notable role in promoting education for women
• begums of Bhopal found the primary schools for girls in Aligarh
• begum rokheya sakhawat hossain started schools for girls in Patna and culcutta
• tarbai shinde wrote a book called stripurushatulna
• trabai shinde was educated at home at poona
• pandita ramabai was a great sanskrit scholar
• pandita ramabai wrote a book about the miserable life of women of the upper castes
• pandita ramabai found a widows shelter at poona
• child marriage restraint act was pased in 1929
• the prarthana samaj adhered to the tradition of bhakti
• paramhans mandali was foun in 1840 for the abolition of caste in bombay
• low caste people went to work in trinidad , mauritius , indonesia and assam
• john allen was a coolie ship which transported low caste labourers from india to mauritius
• father of b.r ambedkar was the leader of dalit movement, he was taught at an army school