Pg 1 - Early Movements & Anti-Caste Struggles

1791

First Hindu College in Banaras founded by Jonathan Duncan

1814

Atmiya Sabha established by Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1817

Hindu College in Calcutta founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare

1825

Vedanta College established by Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1828

Brahmo Sabha founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1829

Sati System abolished (Act passed with efforts of Raja Ram Mohan Roy)

1835

Macaulay's Minute presented by Thomas Babington Macaulay

1853

Vidhava Vivaha Uttejaka Mandal formed by Vishnu Shastri Pandit

1854

Wood's Dispatch presented

1856

Widow Remarriage Act passed (Drafted under Lord Dalhousie, enacted under Lord Canning)

1861

Widow Remarriage Association formed by M.G. Ranade

1882

Arya Mahila Samaj founded by Pandita Ramabai Saraswati

1891

Age of Consent Act passed (due to efforts of B. M. Malabari)

1904

Ladies Social Conference founded by Ramabai Ranade

1910

Bharat Stree Mahamandal founded by Sarla Devi Chaudhurani

1916

1st university for Indian Women (SNDT) established by Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve

1917

Women's Indian Association founded by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, and Jeena Raja Dasa

1924

Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha established by B. R. Ambedkar

1925

National Council of Women in India founded by Lady Meherbai Tata

1925

Self Respect Movement started by E. V. Ramaswamy Naicker

1927

All India Women's Conference founded by Margaret Cousins

1927

Mahad Satyagraha led by B. R. Ambedkar

1929

Sarda Act (Child Marriage Restraint Act) passed

Reason for Reformist Movements (Social)

Social evils like untouchability, superstition, polygamy, purdah system, and polytheism

Reason for Reformist Movements (Women)

Deterioration of women's position due to polygamy, Sati, and prohibition of widow remarriage

Governor-General during the abolition of Sati

Lord William Bentinck

Reformer associated with drafting/passing the Widow Remarriage Act

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

College where Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was Principal

Sanskrit College

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's stance on child marriage

He was against it

Founder of Satyaprakash (Gujarati weekly)

Karsondas Mulji

Minimum age of marriage for girls under Sarda Act

14 years

Minimum age of marriage for boys under Sarda Act

18 years

Theory proposed in Macaulay's Minute

Downward Filtration Theory

Target audience for English education under Downward Filtration Theory

Only rich Indians

Father of English Education in India

Lord William Bentinck

Another name for Wood's Dispatch

Magna Carta of Indian Education

Dispatch that rejected the Downward Filtration Theory

Wood's Dispatch

Medium of primary education according to Wood's Dispatch

Vernacular

Medium of secondary education according to Wood's Dispatch

Anglo-Vernacular

Medium of higher education according to Wood's Dispatch

English

Leader of SNDP Movement in Kerala

Narayan Guru

Leader of anti-caste movement in Maharashtra (similar to Self Respect)

Jyotiba Phule

Text burnt during Mahad Satyagraha

Manusmriti

Title given to Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Father of Indian Renaissance

Person who gave the title Raja to Ram Mohan Roy

Akbar II

Text translated into Bengali by Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Vedas

Writings/Publications of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Gift to Monotheists (Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin), The Precepts of Jesus, Sambad Kaumudi, Mirat-ul-Akhbar