Socio Religious Reform Movements in India

 

Movement	Founder	Year	Place
Ahmediya Movement	Mirza Ghulam Ahmad	1889	Punjab
Ahrar Movement	Maulana Muhammad Ali and Hakim Ajmal Khan	1910	UP
Aligarh Movement	Sir Syed Ahmed Khan	1886	Aligarh
Arya Samaj	Swami Dayananda	1875	Bombay
Atmiya Sabha	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1815	Bengal
Brahmo Samaj	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	1829	Bengal
Brahmo Samaj of India	Keshav Chandra Sen	1866	Bengal
Dar-ul-Ulum	Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi,Rasheed Ahmed Gangohi and 'Abid Husaiyn	1866	Deoband (a town in Saharanpur, UP)
Deccan Education Society	G.G. Agarkar	1884	Pune
Deoband Movement	Mahmud-ul-Hasan	1866	Deoband
Dev Samaj	Shivnarayan Agnihotri	1887	Lahore
Dharma Sabha	Radhakant Dev	1830	Bengal
Ezhava Movement	Sri Narayan Guru	1888	Kerala
Farazis Movement	Shariat Ullah	1818	Delhi
Gurudwara Reform Movement	SGPC	1920	Punjab
Indian National Social Conference	M.G Ranade	1887	Bombay
Justice Movement	C.N. Mudaliar, T.M. Nair and P. Tyagaraja Chetti	1915	Madras
Mahar Movement	Babasaheb Ambedkar	1920	Bombay
Manav Dharma Sabha	Mehtaji Durgaram Manchharam	1844	Surat
Muhammadan Educational Conference	Sir Syed Ahmad Khan	1886	Aligarh
Namdhari Movement	Baba Ram Singh	1857	Punjab
Nirankari Movement	Baba Dayal Das	1840	Punjab
Paramhansa Mandali	Dadoba Pandurang	1849	Bombay
Parsi Religious Reform Association	Furdunji Naoroji and S.S. Bengalee	1851	Bombay
Prarthana Samaj	Dr. Atmaram Pandurang	1867	Bombay
Pune Seva Sadan	Ramabai Ranade & G.K. Deodhar	1909	Pune
Radhaswami Satsang	Tulsi Ram (Shiv Dayal Saheb)	1861	Agra
Rahanumai Mazdyasan Sabha	Dadabhai Naoroji	1851	Bombay
Ramakrishna Mission	Swami Vivekanand	1897	Belur
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh	Dr Baliram Hedgewar	1925	Nagpur
Sadharan Brahmo Samaj	Anand Mohan Bose	1878	Bengal
Satyashodhak Samaj	Mahatma Jyotirao Phule	1873	Pune
Self Respect Movement	E. V. Ramaswamy	1925	Tamil Nadu
Servants of India Society	Gopal K Gokhale	1905	Bombay
Seva Sadan Society	Ramabai Ranade	1909	Pune
Seva Samiti	H.N Kunjru	1914	Allahabad
Singh Sabha	Thakur Singh Sandhawalia and Giani Gian Singh	1873	Amritsar
Social Service League	Narayan Malhar Joshi	1911	Bombay
Tariqah-i-Muhammadiyah	Titu Mir	1820	Bengal
Tatvabodhini Sabha	Debendranath Tagore	1834	Bengal
Theosophical Society	Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge	1875	New York City, United States
Young Bengal Movement	Henry Vivian Derozio	1826	Bengal