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RAJA RAMMOHAN ROY

His influence was apparent in the fields ofpolitics,public administrationandeducationas well asreligion. He is best known for his efforts to establish the abolishment of the practice ofsati, theHindufuneral practice in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself in her husbands funeral pyre in some parts of the Bengal. Crusaded againstsocial evilslike sati, polygamy and child marriage etc.Demanded property inheritance rights for women.In 1828, he set up theBrahman Sabaha movement of reformist Bengali Brahmins to fight againstsocial evils.

Pandita ramabaiPandita Ramabai(23 April 1858 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer, a champion for the emancipation of women, and a pioneer in education. She acquired a reputation as a Sanskrit scholar. Ramabai was born on 23 April 1858 inCanara districtofBritish India(now in Karnataka). Her Family belongs to Mala Kattemane Dongare Family. Her father, Anant Shastri, was an intellectual Brahmin, who from his study of Hindu texts, believed that women should be educated.When her parents died in the 1877 famine, she and her brother decided to continue their father's work. She and her brother traveled all over India. Ramabai's fame as a lecturer reached Calcutta, where the pundits invited her to speak.

Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekanandawas born on 12 January 1863 4 July 1902), bornNarendra Nath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saintRamakrishna. Vivekananda believed that a country's future depends on its people, and his teachings focused on human development.He wanted "to set in motion a machinery which will bring noblest ideas to the doorstep of even the poorest and the meanest". Vivekananda linked morality with control of the mind, seeing truth, purity and unselfishness as traits which strengthened it. He advised his followers to be holy, unselfish and to have faith.

4Mahatma GandhiMahatma gandhi was born on 2 october 1869In 1932, through the campaigning of the Dalit leaderB. R. Ambedkar, the government granted untouchables separate electorates under the new constitution, known as theCommunal Award. In protest, Gandhi embarked on a six-day fast on 20 September 1932, while he was imprisoned at theYerwada Jail, Pune.The resulting public outcry successfully forced the government to adopt an equitable arrangement (Poona Pact) through negotiations mediated byPalwankar BalooThis was the start of a new campaign by Gandhi to improve the lives of the untouchables, whom he namedHarijans, the children of God. Gandhi was 24 when he arrived in South Africa.to work as a legal representative for the Muslim Indian Traders based in the city of Pretoria.He spent 21 years in South Africa,

Bhim Rao Ambedker

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkarwas born on 14 April 1891 6 December 1956), popularly known asBabasaheb, Indianjurist,economist,politicianandsocial reformerwho inspired theModern Buddhist Movementand campaigned against social discrimination againstUntouchables(Dalits).while also supporting the rights of women andlabour. He was Independent India's firstlaw ministerand the principal architect of theConstitution of India.While practising law in the Bombay High Court, he tried to promote education to untouchables and uplift them. His first organised attempt was his establishment of the central institutionBahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha, intended to promote education and socio-economic improvement, as well as the welfare of "outcastes

Dadabhai NaorojiDadabhai Naoroji(4 September 1825 30 June 1917), known as theGrand Old Man of India, was aParsiintellectual, educator, cotton trader, and an early Indian political and social leader.Naoroji is also credited with the founding of theIndian National Congress, along withA.O. HumeandDinshaw Edulji Wacha. His bookPoverty and Un-British Rule in Indiabrought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain. He was also member of theSecond Internationalalong withKautskyandPlekhanov.The manners and customs of the Parsees(Bombay, 1864)

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