This document summarizes several important religious and social reformers in India who worked to change society in the late 18th and 19th centuries. It discusses their efforts to abolish problems like sati, child marriage, caste discrimination, and lack of women's education. Some of the key reformers mentioned are Raja Ram Mohan Roy, who founded the Brahmo Samaj and fought against sati; Dayanand Saraswati, who established the Arya Samaj to promote education and end discrimination; and Pandita Ramabai, who advocated for women's rights and started schools for women. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan also worked to promote modern education, especially for Muslims who faced restrictions at the

1. Religious and Social
Reformers of India
Class V

2. Religious and Social Reformers
● Made people think in a new way
● Against Social Problems of those days
○ Sati
○ Child marriage
○ Caste differences
○ Women were not educated

3. Who?
● Raja Ram Mohan Roy
● Dayanand Saraswati
● Pandita Ramabai
● Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
● … Others

4. A Quick Intro
Raja Ram
Mohan Roy
Bengal 1772 Fight against
Sati, Brahmo
Samaj
● Started
Schools,
Colleges
● Fought for
women’s
rights
Dayanand
Saraswati
Gujarat 1824 Arya Samaj
Pandita
Ramabai
Karnataka 1858 Arya Mahila
Samaj, Sharda
Sadan
Sir Syed
Ahmed Khan
Delhi 1817 Aligarh Muslim
University

5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
● Wanted girls to get educated, not to
get married early
● Opened schools to promote modern
learning
● Fight against Sati
○ Abolished in 1829
● Brahmo Samaj
○ Society which worships Brahmam
○ No idol worship, no caste
restrictions

6. Dayanand Saraswati
● Believed in changing the society by
education
○ Established schools (DAV:
Dayanand Anglo Vedic)
● Arya Samaj
○ Society of nobles
○ Started in 1875
○ Against: Caste discrimination, idol
worship, child marriage
○ Simple prayers

7. Pandita Ramabai
● Poet, Social reformer
● Fought for women’s rights
● Women were not encouraged to study
○ Her father educated his wife (mother
of Ramabai), facing stiff resistance
from people
○ She started schools for women
● Arya Mahila Samaj (Society of noble
women)
● Sharda Sadan (Shelter home for widows)

8. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
● Established schools giving
modern education
● Fought for women’s rights
● Founded Aligarh Muslim
University
○ A community discouraged from
education in those days

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