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By Maharshi Devendranath Tagore (Translated from Bengali) The Brahmo Samaj was losing its fervour and energy, reaching a nadir and almost vanishing into oblivion, before it was integrated with the Tattwabodhini Sabha. Its union with the Tattwabodhini Sabha breathed life into the Brahmo Samaj. It is not difficult to imagine the unfortunate state it would have reached if these two had not been brought together in Shaka 1763 (1841 CE). Perhaps it would have ceased to exist. We were students Read More …

By Sujoy Gupta Brahmoism is probably the youngest religious creed in the world with an age yet to touch 200 years. No reliable census exists so the headcount is unknown. Having said so, the perception is that in terms of numbers, the populace of adherents can be cogently assumed to comprise a microscopic minority in India. The history of births of religions is attributed by and large to a prophet’s inspirational pronouncements or to collective preaching of men endowed with Read More …

Born 31st January, 1847; Died 30th September 1919. By Rita Bhimani Well before I was born, my mother was exhorted by Pandit Sivanath Shastri that if she were to have a daughter, she should be called Ritam, meaning honest, divine truth. To have inherited such a name, but in a much broader perspective, to have had the fortune of an inheritance of a man ahead of his time, and to have imbibed it from women — my mother, Tapati Mookerji Read More …

By Sudakshina Kundu Mookerjee The University of London opened its doors to women in June 1868. Switzerland was the only German speaking country where women were allowed to enrol at the University, way back in 1840s while the rest of the German speaking nations denied University education to women till early twentieth century. When this was the state of education for women even in the so-called advanced nations of the Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, it is no wonder Read More …

10th January 1836 India stepped into a new epoch of the history of medical science on January 10, 1836, when the first dissection of human body was done by Dr. Madhusudan Gupta in Medical College, Calcutta. Till the early eighteenth century only Ayurvedic or Unani methods were available in India for treating various ailments. Lord Bentinck, the Governor General of India (1828-35 CE), was convinced by the likes of Mr. David Hare that there was need for introducing the modern Read More …