Socio-Religious Reform Movements and the Nineteenth-Century Renaissance
BPSC demand
Use reformer–organisation–year–objective pairs. Do not flatten distinct movements into one “reform” programme: education, caste, women’s rights, religious interpretation and community uplift had different emphases.
Core pairs
Reformer/movement
Safe clue
Raja Rammohun Roy
Brahmo Sabha (1828); campaign against sati.
Vidyasagar
Advocated widow remarriage; Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856.
Jyotiba Phule
Satyashodhak Samaj, 1873; anti-caste and social equality work.