Brahmo Samaj (Bengali: ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ, romanized: Brahmô Sômaj [bram.ho ʃɔ.b̤a]) is the societal component of Brahmoism, which began as a monotheistic reformist...
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The Sadharan Brahmo Samaj or Universal Brahmo Samaj is a division of Brahmoism formed as a result of schisms in the Brahmo Samaj first in 1866 and then...
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movement. Adherents, known as Brahmos (singular Brahmo), are mainly of Indian or Bangladeshi origin or nationality. The Brahmo Samaj, literally the "Society...
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Adi Dharm (redirect from Adi Brahmo Samaj)
religion of Adi Brahmo Samaj (Bengali: আদি ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ, Adi Brahmô Shômaj) the first development of Brahmoism and includes those Sadharan Brahmo Samajists...
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Bengali Brahmos are those who adhere to Brahmoism, the philosophy of Brahmo Samaj which was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy. A recent publication describes...
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Keshub Chandra Sen (category Burials at Brahmo Cemetery, Nabodebalaya)
a member of the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but established his own breakaway "Bharatvarshiya Brahmo Samaj" in 1866 while the Brahmo Samaj remained under the...
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Ram Mohan Roy (category Brahmos)
reformer and writer who was one of the founder of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform movement in the Indian...
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Hindu reform movements (section Brahmo Samaj)
were compiled. The Brahmo Samaj is a social and religious movement founded in Kolkata in 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The Brahmo Samaj movement thereafter...
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point before 1884" and of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj in his twenties, a breakaway faction of the Brahmo Samaj led by Keshab Chandra Sen and Debendranath...
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Gayatri Mantra (section Brahmo Samaj)
of the Brahmo Samaj" 1911/1912 1st edn. page XVI, publ. Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, 211 Cornwallis St. Calcutta, read : "History Of The Brahmo Samaj Vol. 1 :...
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Debendranath Tagore (category Brahmos)
active in the Brahmo Samaj (earlier called Bhramho Sabha) ("Society of Brahma", also translated as Society of God). He joined Brahmo samaj in 1842. He was...
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of Brahmoism, week long celebrations are carried out in the Brahmo Samajes like Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Navavidhan Brahmo Samaj, Brahmo Sammilan Samaj. The...
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Dwarkanath Ganguly (category Brahmos)
music school for girls. Divisions within Brahmo Samaj led to the 1878 formation of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, where Ganguly served several terms as secretary...
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social reformer and religious figure in India during the British period. Brahmo Samaj was started at Calcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranath...
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the Brahmos. The 6th of Bhadra 1234 B.E. (according to the Bengali calendar), or 20 August 1828, was the date when the doors of the first Brahmo Samaj were...
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Shiv Narayan Agnihotri (section Dev Samaj)
of the Brahmo Samaj (Society of God), a Hindu reform movement. He broke from Brahmoism in 1886 to form his own religious group, the Dev Samaj (Divine...
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well as Hindu traditionalists to criticize the emerging ideas of the Brahmo Samaj, a critical usage whose "polemical undertone [...] is obvious". Ayon...
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British education. Due to Schisms in Adi Brahmo Samaj at Calcutta, a new variant of Adi Brahmoism called Arya Samaj began to take root in the Punjab. When...
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Anandamohan Bose (category Brahmos)
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. He was elected its first president. On 27 April 1879 he founded the Chhatrasamaj, the student's wing of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj movement...
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City College of Commerce and Business Administration (category Universities and colleges affiliated with the Brahmo Samaj)
with the University of Calcutta. It was established in 1961 by the Brahmo Arya Samaj Society, offering only B.COM Honours & Pass with a specialization...
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Hindu nationalism (section Brahmo Samaj)
ideological basis for the independence movement in Colonial India. The Brahmo Samaj was started by a Bengali scholar, Ram Mohan Roy in 1828. Ram Mohan Roy...
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to react against missionaries and Hindu reformers such as Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj. Aside from its use in socio-religious contexts, it also sustains...
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Sambhunath Pandit (category Brahmos)
founder member of British Indian Association. In the History of the Brahmo Samaj, Sivanath Sastri writes, "In the month of June 1852, a number of influential...
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Kandukuri Veeresalingam (category Brahmos)
of Brahmo Samaj leaders like Raja Rammohan Roy, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, & Keshab Chandra Sen. He started Andhra Pradesh's first Brahmo Mandir...
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Brahmo Samaj Archived 1 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopedia Britannica Sen was a leader of the colonial era monotheistic Brahmo Samaj reform...
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Krishna Kumar Mitra (section Brahmo leader)
(1852–1936) was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist and leader of the Brahmo Samaj. He is remembered for his contributions to the Swadeshi movement through...
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Durga Mohan Das (category Brahmos)
Mohan Das (Bengali: দুর্গামোহন দাশ Durga Mohon Das; 1841–1897) was a Brahmo Samaj leader and a social reformer. Durga Mohan was born in a well-known Baidya...
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Tattwabodhini Sabha (category Brahmoism)
group of the Brahmo Samaj, reformers of Hinduism and Indian Society. The founding member was Debendranath Tagore, previously of the Brahmo Samaj, eldest son...
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Bengal Renaissance (category Brahmoism)
associated with the Bengali Renaissance are: Brahmoism (Brahmo Samaj) Adi Brahmo Samaj Sadharan Brahmo Samaj Gaudiya Math Mahanam Sampraday Ramakrishna...
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influenced by Hinduism. Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, rejected Hindu mythology, but also the Christian trinity. He found that...
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