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BRAHMO SAMAJ |
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Date-wise Events |
August 20, 1828 |
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Description |
- It was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by
Raja Ram Mohan Roy and
Debendranath Tagore as reformation of the
prevailing Brahmanism of the time and began the Bengal
Renaissance of the 19th century pioneering all religious,
social and educational advance of the Hindu community in the
19th century.
- Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of Brahmoism, a
monotheistic reformist and renaissance movement
of Hindu religion.
- After the publication of Hemendranath Tagore's
Brahmo Anusthan (code of practice) in 1860 which
formally divorced Brahmoism from Hinduism, the first Brahmo
Samaj was founded in 1861 at Lahore by Pandit Nobin
Chandra Roy.
- It was one of the most influential religious
reformist movements responsible for the making of
modern India.
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