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[60] [61] Among the many Brahmins who nurtured the Bhakti movement were Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vallabha and Madhvacharya of Vaishnavism, [61] Ramananda, another devotional poet sant. [62] [63] Born in a Brahmin family, [62] [64] Ramananda welcomed everyone to spiritual pursuits without discriminating anyone by gender, class, caste or religion ...
Under his guidance a movement had already begun with the aim of giving all castes the right to enter the temples. Thus, agitations and demonstrations took place. Ramasamy was invited to lead the movement as he was the President of the Madras Presidency Congress. [40] [41] On 14 April, Ramasamy and his wife Nagamma arrived in Vaikom. They were ...
Bhawal Estate of Bengal - ruled by Choudhary lineage - (Shrotriya Brahmin) Bhor State, a 9 gun salute princely state ruled by Deshasthas Brahmins; Chaube Jagirs were a group of five feudatory princely states of central India during the period of the British Raj, which were ruled by different branches of Brahmin families.
The Bhakti movement of Hinduism built its theosophy around two concepts of Brahman—Nirguna and Saguna. [120] Nirguna Brahman was the concept of the Ultimate Reality as formless, without attributes or quality. [121] Saguna Brahman, in contrast, was envisioned and developed as with form, attributes and quality. [121]
On 8 January 1830 influential progressive members of the closely related Kulin Brahmin clan [13] scurrilously [14] described as Pirali Brahmin (i.e. ostracised for service in the Mughal Nizaamat of Bengal) of Tagore (Thakur) and Roy Zameendar family, mutually executed the Trust Deed of Brahmo Sabha for the first Adi Brahmo Samaj (place of ...
The earliest historical evidence of settlement of Brahmins in Assam comes from epigraphic sources of the Varman dynasty (350–650). [6] In the late medieval period beginning with the early 16th century, a number of Brahmins from Mithila, Benaras, Kanauj, Bengal and Puri (Srikshetra), were settled in western Assam by the Koch kings for performing Brahminical rites.
Indulal Yagnik, Indian independence activist who was the leader of All India Kisan Sabha who lead the Mahagujarat movement [138] [page needed] [need quotation to verify] Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay , Indian social reformer and freedom activist.
Randall Collins states that Buddhism was more a reform movement within the educated religious classes, composed mostly of Brahmins, rather than a rival movement from outside these classes. [61] In early Buddhism, the largest number of monastics were originally brahmins, and virtually all were recruited from the two upper classes of society ...