Paper I · 10 History of Telangana & the Statehood Movement · 10.4 Social, cultural and political awakening (to 1947)

10.4.1 Social reform movements: Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, Adi-Hindu movement and Bhagya Reddy Varma

Between 1879 and 1947, reform bodies in the Nizam's Hyderabad State (the Brahmo Samaj, the Arya Samaj, social-service leagues and, above all, the Adi-Hindu movement of Bhagya Reddy Varma, Arige Ramaswamy and B.S. Venkat Rao) attacked untouchability, devadasi and jogini dedication, child marriage and illiteracy, and so prepared the ground for the cultural and political movements that followed (TGH-AW-02, TGH-AW-03).

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Key terms

  • social reform
  • Hyderabad State
  • Young Men's Improvement Society
  • Aghorenath Chattopadhyay
  • Mulla Abdul Qayyum
  • Hindu Social Club
  • Humanitarian League
  • Hyderabad Social Service League
  • Vivek Vardhini
  • Keshav Rao Koratkar
  • Vaman Naik
  • Brahmo Samaj
  • Raghupati Venkataratnam Naidu
  • Narayan Govind Vellinkar
  • Arya Samaj
  • Pandit Narendraji
  • Arya Samaj satyagraha 1938-39
  • Adi-Hindu movement
  • Bhagya Reddy Varma
  • Madari Bhagaiah
  • Jagan Mitra Mandali
  • Manya Sangham
  • Adi Hindu Social Service League
  • Adi Andhra
  • Panchama
  • Bhagyanagar Patrika
  • Arige Ramaswamy
  • Arundhatiya Mahasabha
  • B.S. Venkat Rao
  • Hyderabad Ambedkar
  • M.L. Adaiah
  • J.S. Muthaiah
  • Battula Shyam Sunder
  • P.R. Venkataswamy

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