What is Hindu reform movements?
{{unreferenced|date=December 2017}} '''Hindu reform movements''' in the nineteenth society had many evils prevailing in it like Sati (The practice that a woman will burn herself alive at the funeral pyre of her husband), female infanticide {Killing the girl child at birth(It was mainly practised because their parents thought that it was difficult to find difficult grooms for the girls and if found a huge dowry had to be paid to them)},polygamy , [[child marriage]] etc. ==Movements== * Ramkrishna Mission was started by [[Swami Vivekananda]] in 1896 to propagate the teachings of his guru. * [[Brahmo Samaj]] was formed by Raja Ram Mohan Roy of [[Bengal]] in 1828 to end the various evils present in the Indian society. * Prarthana Samaj was established in [[Maharashtra]] by two people: R.G. Bhandarkar and Mahadev Govind Ranade. Gopal Krishna Gokhale also became a part of this Samaj * Satya Shodhak Samaj was formed by Jyotibha Phule in 1848 in [[Maharashtra]]. * Sri Narayana Dharma Paropalana Yogam was founded by Sri Narayana Guru in [[Kerala]] basically for the upliftment of the lower castes * Arya Samaj was formed by Swami Dayanand Saraswati in 1875. He made it to revive and reform the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] religion and bring back the Hindus who had embraced either [[Islam]] or [[Christianity]]. * The Theosophical Society was founded by [[Madame H.P. Blavatsky]] and H.S. Olcott in [[New York]] in 1882. They later set up their branch in [[India]] at Adyar in [[Chennai]] in 1886. Annie Bessant carried on its work in India. [[Category:19th century in India]] [[Category:Hinduism]]