- Intellectual & Cultural stirrings in 19th
cent coz
- Modern western culture
- Consciousness of defeat by foreign power
- Handful Foreigners colonized India coz of internal weakness & ways to overcome it
- Some - Had faith in traditional Indian ideas
- Others - western thought
needed for regeneration of the society
- Reason & Humanism
- RRR
- 1st great leader of modern India
- Pioneer of Indian Journalism
- Internationalism
- For
- Monotheism
- Rational & Scientific approach
- Human dignity
- Social equality
- Modern capitalism & Industries
- Philosophy of Vedanta is based on reason
- Synthesis of thought from East & West
- Indianization for superior civil service
- Separation of Exec and Judiciary
- Trial by Jury
- Parity between European and Indian judges
- Against
- Sati - supported Bentick
- Rational critique of Hinduism & Christianity
- Blind reliance on India's own past & Blind aping of the west
- Books
- Critical Book Percepts of Jesus -1820
- Gift of Monothesists - 1809
- Compiled Bengali Grammar
- Organisation
- Atmiya sabha - 1814
- Vedanta college - Indian and Western learnings - 1825
- Brahmo samaj - 1828
- Hindu College with David hare( watch maker) - 1817
- English School in Calcutta - 1817
- Derozio & Young Bengal mvmt
- Anglo Indian
- Taught in Hindu College - later dismissed bcos of radicalism
- Fr Rev
- Radical trend
- Modern than RRR
- Surendranath Bannerjea called them "Pioneers of modern civilisation of Bengal, the conscript fathers of our race whose virtues will excite veneration and whose failings will be treated with gentlest consideration "
- Carried forward Rammohun Roy's tradition
- Criticism
- Bookish radicalism
- Did not take up peasants cause
- Didn't understand Indian reality
- Debendranath Tagore
- 1839 -
Tatvabodhini sabha
- To propagate RRRs idea
- and its organ Tatvabodhini
patrika
- To study Indias past in bengali language
- Revitalised Brahmo Samaj in1843
- Rabindranath Tagore's father
- Women
- Polygamy
- Widow Remarriage
- Edu
- Ryots Condn
- 1839 -
Tatvabodhini sabha
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Sanskrit college principal - Sanskrit scholar
- Blend = Ind + West culture
- His views
- Window remarriage
- Against child marriage
- Opened Sanskrit schools for non-brahmins
- Women education - started 35 schools - Govt inspector of Schools/
- Women higher education Secretary to the Bethune School
- Pioneers
of reformers in W India
- Bal Shashtri Jambedkar
- Bombay
- Brahmanical orthodoxy
- Darpan 1832
- Paramahamsa Mandali
- One god
- Maharashtra in 1849
- Students literary & Scientific society
- Vishnu shashtri pundit
- Widow remarriage association 1850s
- Karsondas Mulji
- Satya Prakash (Gujrati) - Widow remarriage
- Gopal Hari deshmukh
- Lokahitawadi
- Indian society on Rational, Humanistic & Secular values
- Jyotiba Phule
- MH
- Against upper caste domination & Brahmanical supremacy
- + Wife - Girls school
- Widow remarriage movement
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Bombay
- Reform Zoroastrian religion
- Parsi law association
- Women
- Legal status
- Uniform laws inheritance & Marriage
- Bal Shashtri Jambedkar
- In general
- Through Indian language press & Literature
- Prepared language primers
- Eg -
Bengali primer
- ICV
- RT
- Eg -
Bengali primer
- Primarily through Indian Language
- Trend setters