Our country has a glorious past, a developing present, and is believed to have a prosperous future.

Pre-Independence was the era of transformation. And today we are witnessing the change in the old taboos of society, and it’s just because of the hard work of some luminary and courageous people.

All of us need to know about the reform drives that changed our present. They gave a new dimension to the development of the country.

Let’s take a glimpse on social and religious movements in India that changed the destiny of the nation and filled us with proud.

Socio-Religious Movements in India

Name	Founder	Year	Place
Atmiya Sabha	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1815	Calcutta
Young Bengal Movement	Henry Vivian Derozio	1826	Calcutta
Brahmo Samaj	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1829	Calcutta
Dharma Sabha	RadhaKant Dev	1830	Calcutta
Tatvabodhini Sabha	Debendranath Tagore	1839	Calcutta
Paramhansa Mandili	Dadoba Panderung	1849	Bombay
Rahnumai Mazdhyan Sabha	Dadabhai Naroji	1851	Bombay
RadhaSwami Satsang	Shiv Dayal Saheb	1861	Agra
Brahmo Samaj of India	Keshav Chandra Sen	1866	Calcutta
Prarthna Samaj	Dr. Atmaram Pandurang	1867	Bombay
Arya Samaj	Swami Dayanand	1875	Bombay
Theosophical Society	H.P Balatsvy & Col. Olcott	1875	New York
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj	Anand Mohan Bose	1878	Calcutta
Deccan Educational Society	G.G Agarkar	1884	Pune
Indian National Social Conference	M.G. Ranade	1887	Bombay
Dev Samaj	Shivnarayan Agnihotri	1887	Lahore
Ram Krishna Mission	Swami Vivekanand	1897	Belure
Servants of Indian Society	Gopal Krishna Gokhale	1905	Bombay
Social Service League	N.M. Joshi	1911	Bombay
Seva Samiti	H.N. Kunjru	1914	Allahabad

The emergence of Socio-Religious Movements in India:

In the 19th century, many reformers came forward and joined hands for eradicating the inhuman activities, religious taboos, and superstitions from the society.

They have some common ideas in their minds:

1. One god and individual unit of all religions.
2. End of Polytheism, Priesthood, and Idolatry.
3. Improve the status of women.
4. Foster the feeling self-respect and self-reliance.

Outcome of the Social-Religious Movements:

It helped to bring back the society on the path of social, religious and mental well-being. It restored the harmony of people.

It transformed the mentalities and united the nation.

Major outcomes are given as follows:

1. The revival of Hinduism.
2. Given immense respect to women, untouchable and other oppressed people of society.
3. A full attack on the caste system.
4. Maintained the sense of co-existence of culture and religions.