Brahmo Samaj

For this paper I chose to interview a friend of mine, a former co-worker, Ramesh. We worked together several years ago at Wal-Mart. I would spend my breaks with him and his wife. His culture is very interesting to me as well as his opinion of his home culture. He has lived in America for many years, he moved here with his new wife as a young man to go to college. Ramesh is from a very wealthy Hindu family in south India, his father is the prince over a territory there. He moved here with his wife in the early 1970’s. He spoke of the beautiful surroundings and the lush gardens his mother had that had a small creek running though it, a rare sight in the desert. He described the heat and how the temperature was always like American summers, even hotter sometimes. Ramesh described the living conditions of the less well off as very harsh. He remembers India always being at war during his youth. The poor were very poor and health care was not a common thing. Many people became very sick and even died because of this. He told a story of how his wife’s uncle was killed just a short distance from her house by gorilla soldiers. As a child he played there at the palace where his father was prince. He played cricket with his friends; this is a game like American baseball. Because his father was a prince he was expected to behave a certain way and while he did not have responsibilities like those of a typical youth, like chores and cleaning his room, he had other responsibilities and…

inscriptions. Earlier regional languages were not t part of official work. Malayalam was the widely popular language of this part of the peninsula. 54. (4) Songram sangma revolt of 1906 was took place in Assam. This revolt was begin against the draconian forest law proposed by the British in which they have full control over forest and tribes were denied any rights. Forest satyagraha was another such revolt happened in 1930s in central provinces. 55. (2) Simon commission was arrived in India in…

Gunabhiram Barua (1834-1894) is intimately connected with the growth of modern secular drama in Assamese. He was one of the first young men from Assam to go to Calcutta for collegiate education. He studied at Presidency College for two years, but had to discontinue his studies, and joined Government service. During his stay at Calcutta as a student he came into close contact with the new ideas that marked the Indian renaissance. Attracted by the liberal ideas of the Brahmo Samaj, he adopted…

Portrayal of Bengali Renaissance in Satyajit Ray’s films Western education / Modern ideas (Mahanagar, Devi) The liberal ideas of the West played a crucial role in the awakening of Bengal. Modern ideas substituted the age old customs and it began with the establishment of Brahmo Samaj and spread of English education. The concepts and ideas from the West forced the educated youth to think in a rational manner and they started despising everything that is traditional. In this concern, the historian…

During the colonial period there were many social reforms that had been revolved around different social, religious and culture. In context of this there were many kinds of reform movements which are introduced by the various reformers stating the different movements which mainly effected on the different caste and gender issues. For instance I will give some of the reform movements introduced by the different reformers, like, Raja Rammohan roy who introduced both the sati and brahmo samaj…

Adam, the rural male impose dominance while Eve, women hopes for liberty. However, to fight for their freedom several people have reacted in several manners. Raja Ram Mohan Roy, the founder of Brahmo Samaj movement, advocated equality for all regardless of their caste and descent. Vivekananda, leader of the Rama Krishna movement, advocated Vedanta principles. They both rejected Manu Smriti. Premchand in his writings have also raised voice against caste bias. In his short story “Deliverance”,…

against a personal being and the natural law, but a wrong way of looking at temporal things. I was also fascinated to see the variations of yoga. I knew that yoga was intricately associated with prayer and spirituality in Hinduism, but I had not thought to look at the delineations of the practice. I assume that “hatha yoga” is the one practiced physically by many people in the United States. It suspect most people do not use the meditative aspect of the practice, so much as the stretching.…