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Socio-Religious Movements in 19th-20th Centuries



Socio-Religious Movements in 19th-20th Centuries

Year Place Name of the Organisation Founder
1815 Calcutta AtmiyaSabha Rammohan Roy
1828 Calcutta Brahmo Samaj Rammohan Roy
1829 Calcutta Dharma Sabha Radhakant Dev
1839 Calcutta Tattvabodhini Sabha Debendranath Tagore
1840 Punjab Nirankaris Dayal Das, Darbara Singh, Ratta Chand etc.
1844 Surat Manav Dharma Sabha Durgaram Mancharam
1849 Bombay Paramhansa Mandli Dadoba Pandurang
1857 Punjab Namdharis Ram Singh
1861 Agra Radha Swami Satsang Tulsi Ram
1866 Calcutta Brahmo Samaj of India Keshab Chandra Sen
1866 Deoband Dar-ul-Ulum Maulana Hussain Ahmed
1867 Bombay Prarthna Samaj Atma ram Pandurang
1875 Bombay Arya Samaj Swami Dayanand Saraswati
1875 New York (USA) Theosophical Society Madam H.P. Blavatsky and Col H.S. Olcott
1876 Calcutta Sadharan Brahmo Samaj Anand Mohan Bose

Year Place Name of the Organisation Founder
1884 Pune (Poona) Deccan Education Society G.G. Agarkar
1886 Aligarh Muhammadan Educational Conference Syed Ahmad Khan
1887 Bombay Indian National Conference M.G. Ranade
1887 Lahore Deva Samaj Shivnarayan Agnihotri
1894 Lucknow Nadwah-ul-Ulama Maulana Shibli Numani
1897 Belur Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekanand
1905 Bombay Servents of Indian Society Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1909 Pune (Poona) Poona Seva Sadan Mrs Ramabai Ranade and G. K. Devadhar
1901 Bombay Social Service League N. M. Joshi
1914 Allahabad Seva Samiti H. N. Ktinzru