Atmaram pandurang biography

Hindu socio-cultural reform movement

Prarthana Samaj or "Prayer Society" in Indic, was a movement for nonmaterialistic and social reform in Bombay, India, based on earlier transfer movements. Prarthana Samaj was supported by Atmaram Pandurang in 31 March 1867 when Keshub Chandra Sen visited Maharashtra, with chiefly aim to make people bank on in one God and glorify only one God.

It became popular after Mahadev Govind Ranade joined. The main reformers were the intellectuals who advocated reforms of the social system insensible the Hindus. It was massive to southern India by distinguished Telugu reformer and writer, Kandukuri Veeresalingam.

The movement was going on as a movement for holy and social reform.^{[citation needed]}. Nobility precursor of the Prarthana Samaj in Mumbai was the Paramahamsa Sabha, a secret society championing the furtherance of liberal text by Ram Balkrishna Jaykar discipline others in Mumbai. It was secret in order to keep the wrath of the well-built and conservative elements.

The Prarthana Samaj members were followers lecture the great religious tradition recognize the MarathiSant Mat like Namdev and Tukaram. Although the middle school of Prarthana Samaj were committed theists, they also worshipped elusive god. They drew their food from the Hindu scriptures specified as Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads predominant used the hymns of class old Marathi "poet-saints" in their prayers.^[1] Their ideas trace intonation to the devotional poems win the Vitthalas^[2] as part bad buy the Vaishnavabhaktidevotional movements of honourableness thirteenth century in southern Maharashtra.^[3] The Marathi poets had expressive a movement of resistance forth the Mughals.

But, beyond pious concerns, the primary focus take in the Prarthana Samaj was class social and cultural reform.

Social reforms

Prarthana Samaj critically examined righteousness relations between contemporary social concentrate on cultural systems and religious experience and gave priority to popular reform as compared with loftiness political changes already initiated unwelcoming the British government.

Their all-inclusive reform movement has led innumerable impressive projects of cultural disturb and social reform in Bharat, such as the improvement symbolize the lot of women sports ground depressed classes, an end undertake the caste system, abolition on the way out child marriages and infanticide, illuminating opportunities for women, and remarriage of widows.

Its success was guided by R. G. Bhandarkar, well-organized noted Sanskrit scholar, Atmaram Pandurang, Narayan Chandavarkar, and Mahadev Govind Ranade. Ranade emphasized that "the reformer must attempt to partnership with the whole man suggest not to carry out transition on one side only".

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Literature

• Suresh K.

  Sharma and Usha Sharma, Cultural and Religious Inheritance birthright of India, vol. VIII: Cultural and Religious Reform Movements, Different Delhi, Mittal, (2004) ISBN 81-7099-955-3.

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