Does social and religious movements really successful in medival india
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India has a long history of socio-religious reform movements. However, the
present work focuses on the social reform movements of Nineteenth century only. The
reforms by definition entail change or replacement of the institutions, which have become
functionally irrelevant(totally or partly) to the contemporary social order and are
responsible for low quality of life, deprivations, unrest an misery to the sizeable sections
of the society. Etymologically, ‘reform’ means ‘forming again’, ‘reconstruct’, which can
be done only when a system is first demolished; but social reform envisages
‘amendment’, ‘improvement’ etc.; thus entailing peaceful crusading, use of non-violent
means for change and change in slow speed.1
A reform movement is a kind of social
movement that aims at making gradual change, or changes in certain aspects of society,
rather than rapid or fundamental changes. A reform movement is distinguished from
more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements.
In India, social reform did not ordinarily mean a reorganisation of the structuring
of society at large, as it did in the West, for the benefit of underprivileged social and
economic classes. Instead, it meant the infusion into the existing social structure of the
new ways of life and thought; the society would be preserved, while its members would
be transformed.
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