THE CULTURAL AND SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj in 1828 and
Arya Samaj was founded by Dayanand Saraswati in 1875.
It was called the Sharda Act (Sharda Act) after his name.
Under this Act, the minimum age of marriage for girls was fixed at 14 years and for boys at 18 years.
The act prohibited the marriage of girls below the age of 12 years.
He also influenced the passing of the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act in 1856. He also promoted female education and founded several girls' schools in the districts of Nadia, Midnapur, Hugli, and Burdwan in Bengal
It was a school for Indian Widows in India.
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati was a social reformer who worked for the emancipation of women.
She was a pioneer in education and was the first woman to be conferred the title of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar.
He led a powerful non-Brahmin movement.
Through his book 'Gulamgiri' and his organization 'Satyashodhak Samaj, he gave a call for the need to protect the lower castes from hypocritical Brahmins and their opportunistic religious texts.
The Asiatic Society of Bengal is located in Kolkata. It was founded to encourage Europeans to study Orientals (the word meant Asia)
