Women
Prevention of Female Infanticide		1795 & 1804 Bengal Regulation [Lord Hardinge I]
Controlling Child Marriage	BM Malabari (Parsi) MG Ranade [Indian National Social Conference]-Pledge Movement Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Native Marriage(Civil Marriage) Act Age of Consent Act 1891 (min age 12) Sarda Act 1930 (min age 18-B, 14-G)
Women education	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Jagannath Shankar Seth Bahu Daji Christian Missionaries-Calcutta Female Juvenile Society JED Bethune - Bethune School D.K. Karve - Indian Women University	Charles Wood dispatch on Education
Abolition of Sati	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1829 Bengal Sati Regulation [William Bentick]
Widow Remarriage	Raja Ram Mohan Roy Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Vishnu Shastri Pandit - Widow Remarriage Association Karsondas Mulji- Satya Prakash D.K. Karve [himself remarried a widow] Veerasalingam Panutulu BM Malabari, Narmad, MG Ranade, K Natarajan Dayanand Saraswati	Hindu Widow Remarriage Act 1856 [Lord Dalhousie]
Others		Special Marriages Act 1954 Hindu Marriage Act 1955 Hindu Succession Act 1956 Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act 1956
Caste
	Jyotiba Pule - Maharashtra - against Brahmanical domination Ambedkar - All India Scheduled Castes Federation, All India Depressed Classes Federation, Mahad agitation Gandhi - All India Anti-untouchability League Maharaja of Kolhapur Justice Party -TM Nair, Chetty, Mudaliar EV Ramaswamy - Self-respect movement & Vaikom satyagraha Sri Narayana Guru in Kerala - Aravippuram movement Sahadaran Ayyapan Bal Shastri Jambekar- against Brahmanical domination	Govt of India Act 1935
Religious
Akali Movement	campaign to bring reform in the Gurudwaras in India Inspired from Non-cooperation movement based on Ahimsa and Satyagraha philosophy.	Sikh Gurdwara Bill in 1925

Raja Ram Mohan Roy 1772-1833	No definite stand on law of karma and soul and salvation. Left to followers	Monotheist and no idolatry. Believed Hinduism
Dayanand Saraswati 1824-1883	Salvation only by right deeds and not by destiny/karma	Monotheist and no idolatry. Believed Hinduism
Swami Vivekananda 1862-1902	Salvation through traditional ways of renunciation, meditation, bhakti	Image worship but emphasis on essential spirit

William Bentick	Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
Lord Hardinge I	Social reforms including abolition of female infanticide and human sacrifice
Lord Dalhousie	Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856

Imp Slogans - Compilation

Sati is a murder according to every shastra - Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Annihilation of caste system for real progress of nation - Ambedkar

One religion, one caste, one God - Sri Narayana Guru (Kerala)

No religion No caste No God - Sahadaran Ayyapan

Service to man is service to God - Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Back to Vedas; Vedas are India's rock of ages - Dayanand Saraswati

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