Prarthana Samaj, Phule and reform in western India
Whole chapter · 14–22 focused hours
Socio-religious reform and caste movements
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude contemporary social-policy analysis, present legal rules and full biographies; Society owns contemporary application.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Paramahansa mandali and prarthana samaj
- Jyotiba Phule: Satyashodhak Samaj 1873, Gulamgiri, anti-caste and anti-Brahman movement in Maharashtra, girls' schools with Savitribai
- Gopal Baba Walangkar, Vital-Vidhvansak 1888, the first journal addressed to untouchables
- M.G. Ranade's reform circle, Deccan Education Society 1884, Fergusson College, widow remarriage association
- Gokhale's Servants of India Society 1905 and its constructive-liberal reform work
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 7: Women, Caste and Reform ↗
ch. 7 Women, Caste and Reform, pp. 1-15 (printed 78-92)
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Socio-Religious Reforms; Personalities
- History Syllabus (Drishti IAS, Delhi branch) ↗
Paper 2, item 6
- Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 5, chapters 1–2: regional reform and reform among Muslim, Sikh, Parsi and non-Brahmin communities; locate the named movement or institution.
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 7: Women, Caste and Reform ↗
Women’s education, social legislation and challenges to caste
- Social Changes ↗
Section 18.2, socio-religious reform; education policy and press history are assigned elsewhere.
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 6 and 18, reform, temple access and Gurdwara reform; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 5, both chapters; use for regional and community-specific gaps; study only material not covered by the selected school-text passages.
Book required