Important dates and terms

• Important Terms:

  • Conservative: People who wish to stick to old customs and traditions and oppose change
  • Sati: Women who embraced death by burning themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands
  • Suffrage: The right to vote
  • Untouchables: The lowest class people who were denied entry at public places
• Important Dates:

  • 1772-1833: Period of Raja Rammohan Roy
  • 1820s: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio founded the Young Bengal Movement
  • 1829: Sati system was abolished
  • 1830: Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy
  • 1856: Law passed to allow widow remarriage
  • 1864: The Veda Samaj was founded
  • 1867: The Prarthana Samaj worked towards abolishing caste restrictions and encouraging women's education
  • 1873: Jyotirao Phule wrote 'Gulamgiri' and established the Satyashodhak Samaj
  • 1875: The Arya Samaj was established; Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh
  • 1880s: Indian women began to enter universities
  • 1929: Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed
  • 1927-1935: Ambedkar led three Temple movements
• 1772-1833: Period of Raja Rammohan Roy
• 1820s: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio founded the Young Bengal Movement
• 1829: Sati system was abolished
• 1830: Brahmo Samaj was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy
• 1856: Law passed to allow widow remarriage
• 1864: The Veda Samaj was founded
• 1867: The Prarthana Samaj worked towards abolishing caste restrictions and encouraging women's education
• 1873: Jyotirao Phule wrote 'Gulamgiri' and established the Satyashodhak Samaj
• 1875: The Arya Samaj was established; Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan founded the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh
• 1880s: Indian women began to enter universities
• 1929: Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed
• 1927-1935: Ambedkar led three Temple movements