Social Reform Movements in India

In the beginning of 19th century, several reform movements emerged under the leadership of renaissance leaders against discrimination in India. In 1828, the followers of Rajaram Mohan Roy formed an organization called the Academic Association. The landlords of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa formed an organization called the Zamindari Association in 1837. The Zamindari Association was founded by Dwarkanath Tagore in Calcutta. This organization later came to be known as the "Landholders' Society". In 1851, an organization called the British Indian Association was formed. Radhakant Deb was its first president and Tagore was its first secretary. The slogan "India for Indians" was first raised by Swami Dayananda Saraswati. In 1866, Dadabhai Naoroji formed an organization called the "East India Association" in London to influence the indian public in Britain. In 1870, Mahadeva Govinda Ranade founded an organization called the Sarvajanik Sabha in Pune with the aim of drawing the government's attention to the economic conditions of the people. Some other reform movements formed in india were the Brahmo Samaj, Tattvabodhini Sabha, Arya Samaj, Theosophical Society, Ramakrishna Mission, and Servants of India Society.

Social Reform Movements and Founders

1. Brahmo Samaj (1828) - Raja Ram Mohan Roy

2. British Indian Association (1851, Calcutta) - Radhakant Dev, Devendranath Tagore

3. Indian Liberal Federation - Surendranath Banerjee

4. Asiatic Society of Bengal - William Jones

5. Bengal British India Society (1843, Calcutta) - George Thompson

6. Bethune School (1879) - John Eliot Drinkwater Bethune

7. Radhaswami Movement - Tulsi Ram (Shiv Dayal Sahib)

8. Bharat Mata Society - J.M. Chatterjee

9. Swadeshi Bandhav Samiti - Ashwini Kumar Dutta

10. 'Hindu College', Calcutta - David Hare

11. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science - Mahendralal Sarkar

12. Abhinava Bharat Society - V.D. Savarkar

13. Dayanand Anglo Vedic School - Lala Hans Raj

14. Madras Labour Union - B.P. Wadia

15. Aikyavardhani Sabha - Vasudev Balwant Phadke

16. Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan - Shinkaravelu Chettiar

17. Indian Federation of Labour - M.N. Roy

18. Bharat Naujawan Sabha - Bhagat Singh

19. Indian Reforms Association - Keshab Chandra Sen

20. Nirangari Movement - Dayal Das

21. Madras Native Association (1849, Madras) - Ghazulu Lakshminarashu Chetty

22. Indian Women's Association - Dorothy Dinarajadasa

23. Bharat Stree Mahamandal - Saraladevi Choudhurani

24. Mahila Rashtriya Sangh - Latika Ghosh

25. National Indian Association (1867, Bristol) - Mary Carpenter (with the help of Keshav Chandra Sen)

26. Pune Seva Sadan (1909) - G.K. Deodhar, Ramabhai Ranade

27. Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar (1902) - Swami Shraddananda

28. Calcutta Madrasa (1780) - Warren Hastings

29. Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh (1920) - Students of Aligarh University

30. Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Amritsar (1920) - Sundar Singh Majithia

31. Vedanta Society, New York - Swami Vivekananda

32. Indian Home Rule Society, London (1905) - Shyamji Krishna Varma, S.R. Rana

33. Free India Center, Berlin - Subhas Chandra Bose

34. Indian Society, London (1872) - Anand Mohan Bose

35. London Indian Society (1865) - Dadabhai Naoroji, W.C. Banerjee

36. British India Society, London (1839) - William Adam

37. Arya Samaj (1875) - Swami Dayananda Saraswati

38. Servants of India Society - Gopalakrishna Gokhale

39. Theosophical Society of India (1875) - Colonel Olcott, Madame Blavatsky

40. Home Rule Movement (1916) - Annie Besant, Balachandra Tilak

41. Ramakrishna Mission (1897) - Swami Vivekananda

42. Bhoodan Movement - Acharya Vinoba Bhave

43. Aligarh Muslim University - Sir. Syed Ahmed Khan

44. Advaita Siddhanta - Sri. Shankaracharya

45. Indian National Army (INA) - Subhash Chandra Bose

46. Five Year Plan in India - Jawaharlal Nehru

47. Shuddhi Movement - Swami Dayananda Saraswati

48. Indian Society of Oriental Studies - Nandalal Bose

49. Swaraj Party - C.R. Das, Motilal Nehru

50. Social Service League - N.M. Joshi

51. All India Trade Union Congress - N.M. Joshi

52. Red Shirts - Khan Abdul Qafar Khan

53. Khilafat Movement - Ali Brothers

54. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan - K.M. Munshi

55. Indian Home Rule League - Bal Gangadhar Tilak

56. Satyashodhak Samaj. - Jyotiba Govindarao Phule

57. Gaddar Party - Lala Hardayal

58. Quit India Movement - Baba Amte

59. Prarthana Samaj (1867) - Atmaram Pandurang

60. Bombay Association (1852, Bombay) - Dadabhai Naoroji, Naoroji Furdunji

61. Self-Respect Movement - Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker

62. Boy Scouts in India - N.M. Bajpayee

63. Indian Independence League - Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Satyamurthy

64. All India Muslim League - Nawab Salaimullah Khan, Aga Khan

65. Veda Samaj - Mahadev Govind Ranada

66. All India Harijan Sevak Sangh (1932) - Mahatma Gandhi

67. Sarvodaya Movement - Jayaprakash Narayan

68. Devas Samaj (1887) - Shivnarayan Agnihotri

69. Chinmaya Mission - Swami Chinmayananda

70. Vana Mahotsav - K.M. Munshi

71. Visva-Bharati - Rabindranath Tagore

72. Din-Ilahi - Akbar

73. Jainism - Vardhamana Mahavira

74. Christianity - Jesus Christ

75. Islam - Prophet Muhammad

76. Buddhism - Sri Buddha

77. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - Keshav Baliram Hedgewar

78. Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh - Dattopant Dhenktiji

79. Jana Sangh - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

80. Indian National Army - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

81. Tatvabodhini Sabha - Debendranath Tagore

82. Ahmadiyya Movement (1889) - Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

83. Mahar Movement - Ambedkar

84. East India Association (1866, London) - Dadabhai Naoroji

85. United India Patriotic Association (1888) - Sir. Syed Ahmed Khan

86. Chipko Movement - Sundarlal Bahuguna

87. Hitakarin Samaj - Veeresalingam

88. India House - Shyamji Krishna Varma

89. Atmathiya Sabha (1815) - Rajaram Mohan Roy

90. Pune Sarvajanik Sabha (1870, Pune) - Mahadeva Govinda Ranade

91. Hindu Mahasabha - Madan Mohan Malviya

92. All India Kisan Sabha - Swami Sahajananda Saraswati

93. Dharma Sabha (1830) - Radhakant Deb

94. Navavidhan - Keshab Chandra Sen

95. Navjawan Bharat Sabha (1926) - Bhagat Singh

96. Satyashodhak Samaj (1873) - Jyoti Rao Phule

97. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association - Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad

98. Young Bengal Movement - Henry Vivian DeRosio

99. Academic Association (1828) - Henry Vivian DeRosio

100. RSS (1925) - Dr. Keshav Balram Hedgewar

101. Anushilan Samiti (1902) - P. Mitra, Barindra Kumar Ghosh

102. Abhinav Bharat Society (1904) - V.D. Savarkar, Ganesh Savarkar

103. Hindustan Republican Association (1924) - Sachindranath Sanyal, Ramprasad Bismil, Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee

104. Social Service League (1911) - N.M. Joshi

105. People's Education Society (1945, Mumbai) - Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

106. Landholders' Society (1838, Calcutta) - Dwarkanath Tagore

107. Indian League (1875, Calcutta) - Sisir Kumar Ghosh

108. Indian Association (1876, Calcutta) - Ananda Mohan Bose, Surendranath Banerjee

109. Indian National Society (1883, Calcutta) - Sisir Chandra Bose

110. Madras Mahajana Sabha (1884, Madras) - G.Subrahmanya Iyer, M.Veeraraghavacharya, P.Anandacharlu

111. Bombay Presidency Association (1885, Bombay) - Firoz Shah Mehta, Badaruddin Tyabji, K.T.Telang