Class 8th NCERT History Notes Part 10
1. Raja Rammohun Roy (1772-1833) founded Brahmo Sabha (later known as the Brahmo Samaj) in Calcutta
2. Sati was banned – 1829
3. In which year the Widow Remarriage Act was passed – 1856
4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati founded the Arya Samaj in 1875
5. Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta
6. Tarabai Shinde published – Stripurushtulna
7. Pandita Ramabai wrote a book about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women. She also founded a
widows’ home at Poona
8. Prarthana Samaj was founded – 1867 to remove caste restrictions
9. Paramhans Mandali was founded in 1840 to work for the abolition of caste
10. Madigas caste – Andhra Pradesh
11. In 1873, Jyotirao Phule wrote a book named Gulamgiri, meaning slavery
12. E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker was famous with the name – Periyar
13. Periyar founded the Self Respect Movement
14. Brahmo Samaj formed – 1830
15. The Young Bengal Movement – Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
16. Swami Vivekananda’s guru – Ramakrishna Paramhansa
17. The Veda Samaj Established in Madras (Chennai) in 1864
18. The Aligarh Movement was founded by Sayyid Ahmed Khan in 1875 at Aligarh
19. The Singh Sabha Movement – the first Singh Sabhas were formed at Amritsar in 1873 and at Lahore in 1879
20. American Revolution – 1776