Ram Mohan Roy and his companions found the Brahmo Sabha, soon the Brahmo Samaj, in Calcutta, worshipping one formless God from Upanishadic texts; the Samaj becomes the first of the modern Hindu reform movements and a seedbed of Bengal's public life.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1828 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Calcutta; today Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- Ram Mohan Roy, Debendranath Tagore
- Key texts
- The Brahmo Samaj trust deed (1830)
Connections
- Ram Mohan Roy; founded by
Primary Sources
- The trust deed of the Brahmo Samaj
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the Mystic East (Routledge, 1999)
Provenance: HIST-0327; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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