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India's Greatest Reformers
By K. L. Johar
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy saw to it that the evil practice of Sati-the practice of burning a widow on thepyre of her husband-was abolished. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar succeeded in getting a legislativeact adopted in 1856 allowing widows to remarry. Mahatma Gandhi and Dr B.R. Ambedkar workedtirelessly for the eradication of untouchability. Dayanand Saraswati castigated persons who believedin the caste system. Great women like Mary Clubwala Jadhav and Sindhutai Sapkal worked for girls'education and orphanages, respectively.
From contemporary India, Kailash Satyarthi, Dr Bindeshwar Pathak, Devendra Raj Mehta andDr Uma Tuli are featured for their significant work. The 51 portraits in this book will inspire readersto give some thought to the eradication of malpractices that still afflict our society one way or theother.
The stories include that of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Baba Amte, Begum Sultan Jahan, Bilkees Idrees Latif,Durgabai Deshmukh, E.V. Ramaswami, Jagan Nath Kaul, Janaki Devi Bajaj, Dr Javaid Rahi, JyotiraoPhule, K. Vishwanathan, Kailash Satyarthi, Martha Farrell, Mary Clubwala Jadhav, Mahatma Gandhi,Mother Teresa, Rabindra Nath Upadhyay, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dr Rajnikant Arole, Runa Banerjee,Shalini Moghe, Subhas Chandra Bose, Subramania Bharati, Sunderlal Bahuguna, Swami Sivananda,Swami Vivekananda, Tarabai Shinde, Vinoba Bhave, among many other luminaries.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2024-05-15
Publication Date:
2022-05-20
Publisher:
RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT LTD
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
936156773X
ISBN13:
9789361567735
Weight:
300 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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