Seva Samiti

Seva Samiti was another organization founded by another prominent member of the Servants of India Society, Hridayanath Kunzru. Founded in 1914 at Allahabad, the Seva Samiti had as its objective to organise social service during natural disasters like floods and epidemics, ..

Social Service League (1911)

Narayan Malhar Joshi, a leading member of the Servants of India Society, founded the Social Service League in 1911. The objective of the movement was “to collect and study social facts and discuss social problems with a view to forming ..

Indian (National) Social Conference

Indian (National) Social Conference was founded by M.G. Ranade and Raghunath Rao. It was virtually the social reform cell of the Indian National Congress. Its first session was held in Madras in December 1887. The Conference met annually as a ..

Servants of India Society

Servants of India Society was founded on 12 June 1905 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale to build a dedicated group of people for social service and reforms. In the field of famine relief, union organisation, cooperatives and uplift of tribals and depressed, the ..

Seva Sadan (Launched by Behramji M. Malabari)

The Parsi social reformer Behramji M. Malabari campaigned all his life against child marriage and “enforced widowhood”. He founded the Seva Sadan as a social reform and humanitarian organization in 1885. The Seva Sadan specialized in the care of socially ..

Paramahansa Mandali

Paramahansa Mandali was founded by Dadoba Panderung (1842-82) and Bal Shastri Jambhekar of Maharashtra in 1849. Dadoba in his book Dharma Vivechan, outlined seven principles of this new movement: that God alone should be worshipped; real religion is based on ..

Satya Mahima Dharma

Mukund Das, known as Mahima Gosain, founded the Satya Mahima Dharma in the 1860s, assisted mainly by Govinda Baba and Bhima Bhoi. Mahima Gosain preached the existence of one deity-Alakh Param Brahma, an eternal being, who was formless and indescribable. ..

Madras Hindu Associations

There were two of them: the Madras Hindu Social Reforms Association founded by Veresalingam Pantulu (1848-1939) in 1892, and the Madras. Hindu Association founded by Mrs. Annie Besant in 1904. Pantulu’s Hindu Association was a social purity-movement advocating temperance and ..

Deva Samaj

This sect was founded in 1887 at Lahore by Shiv Narain Agnihotri, an erstwhile follower of Brahmo Samaj. The teachings of the Samaj were compiled in book form in Deva Shastra. The teachings of the Deva Samaj emphasise the Supreme ..

Radhaswami Movement

Radhaswami Movement was founded in 1861 by Tulsi Ram, of Agra, a banker by profession. Tulsi Ram was also popularly known as Shiv Dayal Saheb or Swamiji Maharaj. The Radhaswamis believe in one Supreme Being, the supremacy of the Guru, ..