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	Brahmo Samaj ("assembly of brahman")
		Ram Mohan Roy, founder of Brahmo Samaj, identified the monotheism of Christianity and Islam as of universal validity.
		Codification of the doctrines came with the main principles of the Nava Samhita, New Dispensation, of Keshub Chandra Sen, the third leader of the movement, in 1881.
		Keshub gave concreteness to the otherwise abstract monotheism of the Samaj by introducing into the church the Pilgrimage to saints, the Homa ceremony, the Baptismal ceremony, the Lord's supper, the Flag ceremony, the Arati, the vow of Poverty, the Savitri Vrata, the Nightingale Vrata, and other innovations.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/ascetic/brahmo.html (621 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brahmo Samaj
		Brahmo Samaj is a social and religious movement founded in Kolkata, India in 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
		The Brahmo Samaj movement thereafter resulted in the Brahmo religion in 1850 founded by Debendranath Tagore â” better known as the father of Rabindranath Tagore.
		The popularity of the Brahmo Samaj grew as a result of the raising of a new class of educated Indians that resulted from the occupation of India by the British Empire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brahmo-Samaj (845 words)

	AllRefer.com - Brahmo Samaj, Hindu Religion (Hinduism) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brahmo Samaj[brA´mO sumAj´] Pronunciation Key [Hindi,=society of God], Indian religious movement, founded in Calcutta in 1828 by Rammohun Roy.
		A schism divided the organization in 1865, when Keshub Chunder Sen split with Tagore and formed the Adi Brahmo Samaj, and in 1878 Sen's group itself divided.
		The Brahmo Samaj movement had great influence in the 19th cent., but although it still exists, it has had little impact on 20th-century Hinduism.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/BrahmoSa.html (282 words)

	Arya Samaj ("society of honourable ones")
		The founder of Arya Samaj was Swami Dayananda (1824-1883), one of the most powerful figures of modern India, who spread the Vedic religion and through the Arya Samaj played an important part in the Indian Renaissance.
		Before this the Brahmo Samaj had tried to woo Dayananda to its cause as had the Theosophical Society, which was even to recognise their own Society as a branch of Arya Samaj.
		The influence of the Arya Samaj was mainly in north-west India.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/ascetic/arya.html (695 words)

	Brahmo Samaj -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was influenced by western thought and was one of the first Indians to visit (The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles) Europe.
		The Brahmo Samaj movement thereafter resulted in the Brahmo religion in 1850 founded by (Click link for more info and facts about Dwarkanath Tagore) Dwarkanath Tagore - better known as the father of (Click link for more info and facts about Rabindranath Tagore) Rabindranath Tagore.
		Its prime belief is that there is only one (The supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions) God.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brahmo_samaj.htm (280 words)

	The Brahmo Samaj
		Brahmo means one who worships Brahma, the Supreme Spirit of the universe and Samaj means a community of men.
		The Brahmo Samaj, therefore represents a body of men who want to establish the worship of the Supreme Being in spirit as opposed to the prevailing idolatry of the land.
		The principal festivals of the Brahmos is the Maghotsava which is held in the month of January worldwide which are open to people of all religions and denominations.
	www.thebrahmosamaj.org (482 words)

	Brahmo Samaj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Founded in 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Calcutta, the Brahmo Samaj is a religious movement.
		The Brahmo Samaj has played a significant role in the renaissance of India, and the roots of much of the modern thinking in India can be traced back to the Brahmo movement.
		Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Laureate, was one of the luminaries of the Brahmo Samaj.
	www.chanda.freeserve.co.uk /brahmoframe.htm (141 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Arya Samaj
		Arya Samaj (Sanskrit, “Assembly of the Ancient Nobles”), Hindu religious sect founded in 1875 by Swami Dayananda Sarasvati.
		Dayananda Sarasvati (1824-1883), Hindu religious reformer, founder (1875) of the sect Arya Samaj.
		Brahmo Samaj, Hindu religious sect founded in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1828 by Ram Mohan Roy, a Brahman.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Arya_Samaj.html (84 words)

	Debendranath Tagore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was an active member of the Brahmo Samaj, a religious sect of Hinduism which was against sati, idol worship and the concept of multiple gods.
		He was asked by the founder of Brahmo Samaj Raja Ram Mohan Roy to continue his work in his absence.
		Brahmo Samaj came to be known as Adi Brahmo Samaj when some people broke away to form separate institutions.
	www.voyager.in /Debendranath_Tagore (495 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brahmo
		The Brahmo Samaj movement thereafter resulted in the Brahmo religion in 1850 founded by DwarkaNath Tagore _ better known as the father of Rabindranath Tagore.
		The popularity of the Brahmo Samaj grew as a result of a sense of stagnation in the Hindu social system of The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word casta, meaning lineage, breed or race.
		Satyajit Ray were a few luminaries of the Brahmo Samaj.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brahmo (687 words)

	Roots: Bengal Renaissance
		In 1850, Datta perdsuaded Debendranath and the Samaj to accept the proposition that the Vedas were not infallible.
		The schism in the Brahmo Samaj that Keshubchandra Sen led in 1865 disowned caste difference, but the word 'Arya' or 'Aryan' was emotively venerated...
		Brahmos and Derozians, influenced by 'Empiricism', were critical of Hindu social systems, especially the caste system.
	sankalpa.tripod.com /roots/s1benren.html (3479 words)

	Raja Ram Mohan Roy - Founder of the Brahmo Samaj
		Raja Ram Mohan Roy - Founder of the Brahmo Samaj
		Profoundly influenced by European liberalism, Ram Mohan came to the conclusion that radical reform was necessary in the religion of Hinduism and in the social practices of the Hindus.
		He founded the Brahmo Samaj at Calcutta in 1828, which was initially known as the "Brahmo Sabha."
	www.chanda.freeserve.co.uk /rmroy1.htm (426 words)

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		The Brahmo Samaj was founded in the year 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy.
		It was revived by Maharishi Devendra Nath Tagore.
		The Samaj is still active in India and has a wedding caremony which is unique in all respects.
	www.freemarriage.com /articles/brahmo_samaj_wedding.php (484 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a comprehensive generation-to-generation study of the Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahma Samaj, the forerunners of Indian Modernation aimed to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind.
		It is an analysis of the lives, the consiousness, and the ideas of early rebels against the Hindu tradition whose community has come to be known as the Brahmo Samaj in the mid-nineteenth century.
		The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the modern Indian mind.
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	The Brahmo Samaj
		From their point of view the British were just another ruler over them (see India in the past).
		But the main contribution of the Brahmo Samaj to the society of India was that it evoked issues that were common to people all around the Indian sub-continent.
		The notions of this organization were the inspiration for other organizations and various secular political parties, like the Indian National Congress, which were later on created in India (see Creating the Indian identity).
	adaniel.tripod.com /brahmosamaj.htm (328 words)

	SYHLETIS IN HISTORY: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Samaj was founded in 1862 chiefly through the exertions of Rai Kalika Das Datta Bahadur, late Dewan of Cooch Behar.
		It is the duty of every Brahmo, wherever he may be, from that place to inform the public, in any public paper, that the New Dispensation is totally opposed to Brahmoism.
		But they too removed from the place of employment elsewhere, leaving the Samaj work to be carried on by a few devoted members, who are at present busy with collecting money for building a Mandir.
	personal.vsnl.com /syhlleti/bsamaj.htm (322 words)

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		Sri Ramakrishna in the temple of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
		Vijay is still a member of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj – he is a paid preacher of this Samaj.
		Many of the Brahmo devotees of the Samaj are displeased with him.
	www.kathamrita.org /kathamrita2/k2sec15.htm (1895 words)

	Ram Mohan Roy
		Ram Mohan Roy (May 22, 1772-September 27, 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the first Hindu reform movements.
		Debendranath Tagore[?] became the leader of the Adi Brahmo Samaj[?] and Keshab Chandar Sen[?] the leader of the Brahmo Samaj of India[?].
		It should be noted, however, that the Brahmo Samaj undoubtedly heralded the beginning of the Hindu renaissance, paving the way for other movements.
	www.termsdefined.net /ra/ram-mohan-roy.html (621 words)

	Raja Ram Mohan Roy: A Man for all times by Melaine Kumar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The founding of the Brahmo Samaj was among Roy's most important contributions.
		Beginning in 1828 as a small group, the Samaj played a major role in Renaissance Bengal of the 19th century by attracting luminaries like Keshub Chandra Sen and Rabindranath Tagore and other members of the Tagore family.
		The objectives of the Samaj were to follow a theistic form of Hinduism combining the best of what Roy inculcated through his exposure to other religions.
	www.boloji.com /wfs/wfs170.htm (1084 words)

	The Brahmo Samaj
		Rammohun Roy was born in the village called Radhanagore of Khanakul, Hooghly a district in West Bengal on May 22, 1772.
		On 6th Bhadra, 20th August 1828 the first Samaj was opened at the house of Feranghi Kamal Bose which was rented for the occasion.
		Rammohun left the management of his Samaj to his well wishers and left for the shores of England in 1830.
	www.thebrahmosamaj.org /founders/rammohun.html (1569 words)

	SAMAJ
		The political fortunes of the Congress have suffered badly as major groups in its traditional vote bank have been lost to emerging regional and caste-based parties, such as the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party.
		"SAMAJ" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
		"SAMAJ" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Sa/Samaj.html (345 words)

	"The Arya Samaj: Alliance of Theosophy with a Vedic Society in the Far Orient" by H. P. Blavatsky
		A younger Society than the Brahmo Samaj, it was instituted to save the Hindus from exoteric idolatries, Brahmanism and Christian missionaries.
		As Miss Collett says, in her Brahmo Year Book for 1878, it was only in October, 1839, that Debendra Nath Tagore founded the Tattvabodhini-Sabha (or Society for the Knowledge of Truth), which lasted for twenty years, and did much to arouse the energies and form the principles of the young church of the Brahmo Samaj.
		While the members of the Brahmo Samaj may be designated as the Lutheran Protestants of orthodox Brahmanism, the disciples of the Swami Dyanand should be compared to those learned mystics, the Gnostics, who had the key to those earlier writings which, later, were worked over into the Christian gospels and various patristic literature.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/bcw/b78-6-2.htm (1408 words)

	An Introduction to Hinduism
		As the result of secessions in the Brahmo Samaj, three institutions arose: The Adi Brahmo Samaj; the New Dispensation of Keshub Chandra Sen; and the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj founded by dissenters from the Keshub Church.
		The Sadharan Samaj, led by Shivanath Sastri and Ananda Mohun Bose, gave a rational, monistic interpretation of the Upanisads, admitting the essential unity of the universal self and the individual self.
		It attacked the Brahmo Samaj for its pro-European and pro-Christian attitude.
	wwwstud.uni-giessen.de /%7Es1925/hinduism.htm (11037 words)

	Rabindranath Tagore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rabindranath Tagore (May 6, 1861 - August 7, 1941) was the son of Debendranath Tagore[?], the leader of one of two Brahmo Samaj[?] splinter groups.
		He was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
		Meanwhile the Quaker and I proceeded on our journey for some time might have suited a much less active walker than.
	www.termsdefined.net /ra/rabindranath-tagore.html (379 words)

	From Brahmo Samaj to RSS
		But the Brahmo Samaj movement was not an unqualified success in Sindh even in the days of Navalrai and Hiranand.
		RSS overcame all the earlier distinctions between the Amils and the Bhaibunds, the Hyderabadis and the non-Hyderabadis, the urbanites, the suburbanites and the ruralites, the Sanatanis and the Samajists --- whether of the Arya or the Brahmo variety.
		It was all these movements from the Brahmo Samaj down to RSS that transformed Sindh from a slimy backwater into a small but significant province.
	yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu /~jamali/sindh/story/node15.html (4559 words)

	The Kathamrita - Section XII
		In the beautiful garden house of Veni Madhava Pal a session of Brahmo Samaj is being held again.
		A former member of the Brahmo Samaj, a sub-judge, is also present.
		Brahmo Samaj, Christianity and the doctrine of sin
	www.kathamrita.org /kathamrita/k1sec12.htm (12670 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - History of Hinduism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He read most of the religious scriptures from around the world and discovered that there was little difference between them.
		In 1828, he founded the Brahmo Samaj, based on the teachings of the Upanishads.
		Whilst he based much of his work on the teachings of the Upanishads, his social outlook was progressive and he was keen to develop education and particularly the establishment of western sciences into Indian culture.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/hinduism/history/history4.shtml (442 words)

	Vandemataram.com - Modern Bharat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In1878 Sadharan Brahmo Samaj was formed that converged to Adi Brahmosamaj.
		2.Prarthana Samaj: It was like a counterpart of Brahmo Samaj in Maharashtra.
		It was formed in order to look into the real principles of the religion.
	www.vandemataram.com /html/3modbht/reform/index.htm (415 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Brahmo Samaj
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		Brahmo Samaj, Hindu religious sect founded in Calcutta in 1828 by Ram Mohan Roy.
		The members of the sect, the faith of which is based on the Vedas,...
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	Guwahati Brahmo Samaj grieved over World Trade Center tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		members of the Gauhati Brahmo Samaj in a meeting held at Panbazar, recently expressed profound sorrow and grief for the loss of precious human lives in the recent outrage perpetrated by handful of fanatics and offered heartfelt sympathies to all those who lost their relatives in the terrorists’ attack in the USA.
		The members of the Brahmo Samaj also observed two minutes silence and offered prayers to the Almighty seeking his blessing for eternal peace for the departed souls and quick recovery of those suffering physically.
		Devotional prayers associated with devotional songs were rendered by the Brahmo sisters and brothers seeking peace, tranquillity and tolerance in this tormented society.
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