Question

Q13. Write in Brief about each of them? 14"
i. Kandukuri Veeresalingam
ii. Gopal Hari Deshmukh
iii. Sri Narayan Guru
iv. Swami Vivekananda​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)Rao Bahadur Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu was a social reformer and writer from the Madras Presidency, British India. He is considered as the father of the Telugu Renaissance movement. He was one of the early social reformers who encouraged the education of women and the remarriage of widows.

b)Gopal Hari Deshmukh was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His original surname was Shidhaye. Because of 'Vatan' that the family had received, the family was later called Deshmukh. Deshmukh is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra.

c)Narayana Guru was a philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer in India. He was born into a family that belonged to the Ezhava caste. He led a reform movement against the injustice in the caste-ridden society of Kerala in order to promote spiritual enlightenment and social equality.

s)Swami Vivekananda, born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk. He was a chief disciple of the 19th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.