THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS
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The Prarthana Samaj was founded by Atmaram Pandurang in 1867.
The Brahmo Samaj was founded in 1828 by Raja Rammohan Roy. Therefore, all other three options are correct.
In 1870, the Indian Reform Association was founded by Keshav Chandra Sen. It represented the secular side of the Brahmo Samaj and included many people who did not belong to the Brahmo Samaj.
The Theosophical Society' was founded by a Russian woman, Madam H.P. Blavatsky, American military officer Colonel Alcott, William Quan Judge, and others in New York in 1875. Colonel Alcott and Madame Blavatsky came to India in 1879 and established the Theosophical Society Headquarters near Adyar in Madras in 1882.
Bhartendu Harishchandra is known as the father of modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre, He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. A noted poet, he was a trendsetter in Hindi prose-writing. He was not associated with social reforms, while Raja Rammohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Jyotiba Phule played their role actively in social and religious reform movements.
Veteran freedom fighter, social reformer, and feminist Savitribai Phule was from Maharashtra. She was a teacher, social reformer, and Marathi poetess. Savitribai Phule was married to Jyotiba Phule in 1840. She, along with her husband, founded a school for women in Pune in the year 1848.
In 1897, Swami Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Mission in Vellore, Kolkata. It was registered in the year 1909 under the Societies Registration Act.
Ramakrishna Mission stressed the ideal of salvation through social service and selfless action. Swami Vivekananda established the Ramakrishna Mission to stress the ideals of salvation through social ser vice and selfless action. The mission is named after an Indian spiritual Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and founded by Ramakrishna's chief disciple Swami Vivekananda on May 1st 1897.
