3. RAJA RAM MOHAN ROY
•Sri Raja Ram Mohan Roy a social reformer
born in Calcutta in 1772 initiated many
debates which formed a reform group
called as the brahmo Sabah. He felt that
changes were necessary in society. He
with he help of British abolished sati.
5. MAHATMA GANDHIMAHATMA GANDHI
• Sri Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi (Father of the Nation) was the
pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian
independence movement. He was the pioneer of 'satyagraha'—
resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded
upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence
and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty, expand women's
rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end untouchability, and
increase economic self-reliance
7. BASVESHWARA
• Basava(1134–1196), also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna or BasaveshwaraBasava(1134–1196), also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna or Basaveshwara
was a philosopher, Statesman and a social reformer from present-day Karnataka,was a philosopher, Statesman and a social reformer from present-day Karnataka,
India. Basava fought against the inhuman practice of caste system, whichIndia. Basava fought against the inhuman practice of caste system, which
discriminated people based on their birth, and certain rituals in Hinduism. Hediscriminated people based on their birth, and certain rituals in Hinduism. He
spread social awareness through his poetry, popularly known as Vachanaas.spread social awareness through his poetry, popularly known as Vachanaas.
Basavanna used Ishtalinga to eradicate untouchability, establish equality amongBasavanna used Ishtalinga to eradicate untouchability, establish equality among
all human beings and a means to attain spiritual enlightenment. These areall human beings and a means to attain spiritual enlightenment. These are
rational and progressive social thoughts coupled with established perception ofrational and progressive social thoughts coupled with established perception of
God in Hindu society. He was a great philosopher.God in Hindu society. He was a great philosopher.
9. SRIMANTA SANKARDEVA
• Srimanta Sankardev(1449–1568), was a 15th–16th
century Assamese polymath: a saint-scholar, poet,
playwright, social-religious reformer and a colossal
figure in the socio-cultural and religious history of
Assam, India. . The religion he preached is
practised by a large population, and Sattras
(monasteries) that he and his followers established
continue to flourish and sustain his legacy.
11. KABIR
• Kabir (1440–1518) was a mystic poet
and saint of India, whose writings have greatly
influenced the Bhakti movement. Kabir is the
first Indian saint to have
harmonized Hinduism and Islam by preaching a
universal path which both Hindus and Muslims
could tread together
13. VIVEKANADA
• Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902) was the
founder of Ramakrishna Mission. Swami Vivekananda was also known as
a great scholar. His real name was Narendra Nath Dutta. Vivekananda
is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern
India. He was considered a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta
and Yoga in Europe and America. He introduced Hinduism at the
Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago in 1893.
14. •Vivekananda believed that a country's future
depends on its people, and his teachings focused
on human development. He wanted "to set in
motion a machinery which will bring noblest ideas
to the doorstep of even the poorest and the
meanest". Vivekananda believed that the essence
of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta
philosophy, based on Adi Shankara's
interpretation.
15. He summarized the Vedanta as
follows
• Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this
Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.
Do this either by work, or worship, or mental discipline, or
philosophy—by one, or more, or all of these—and be
free.
• This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or
rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary
details.
16. • Vivekananda linked morality with control of the mind, seeing
truth, purity and unselfishness as traits which strengthened
it. He advised his followers to be holy, unselfish and to
have raddhś ā (faith). Vivekananda supported brahmacharya
(celibacy), believing it the source of his physical and mental
stamina and eloquence.He emphasized that success was an
outcome of focused thought and action; in his lectures on Raja
Yoga he said, "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life
– think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain,
muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea,
and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to
success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced".
18. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) was a
philosopher, academic, educator, writer, translator, printer,
publisher, entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist. His
efforts to simplify and modernise Bangla prose were
significant. He was a Bengali polymath and a key figure of
the Bengal Renaissance. Vidyasagar championed the uplift of
the status of women in India, particularly in his native
Bengal.
19. •Unlike some other reformers who sought to
set up alternative societies or systems, he
sought, however, to transform orthodox Hindu
society from within. Vidyasagar introduced
the practice of widow remarriages to
mainstream Hindu society. In earlier times,
remarriages of widows would occur sporadically
only among progressive members of the
Brahmo Sam j.ā
21. PANDITA RAMABAI
•Ramabai was born on April 23, 1858
in Dakshina Kannada District, Mala,
Gangamoola, Karnataka. She was a
social reformer who tried her level
best to educate women .
23. VIRCHAND GHANDI
• Virchand Gandhi was from Mahuva. He
advocated female education. He is a 19th-century
Indian patriot who was a friend of Mahatma Gandhi
and contemporary to Swami Vivekanand. He and
swami vivekananda drew equal attention at the first
World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893.
He won a silver medal in same. His statue still
stands at the Jain temple in Chicago
