History Of Reforms In Maharashtra : Mahatma Phule, Fatima Shaikh, Shahu Maharaj, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

The social and religious movements in India in the nineteenth century were interlined. These movements were complementary as well as supplementary. By and large, all the reformers of the nineteenth emphasised religious and social reforms. The nineteenth century was marked by strenuous attempts to rediscover, reassess and regenerate Indian society by eschewing orthodoxy and eradicating social evils which had been eating the very vitals of the Indian society and especially the Hindu society. The religious and social reformers emphasised that the truths revealed by the sages and theologians of ancient ages in India, should be seen in the right perspectives. The main streams of the new movements may be summed up as purging of society of superstitutions reaping the fruit of science and restoration of the ancient glory of the society. There were movements in almost every part of India. The leaders of the movements made missionary tours over different regions of the country for promoting a rational outlook