Kinds of Social Reformers

1. Used only rationality
   • Young Bengal
   • Vidya Sagar (VS)
2. Used both rationality & religion (more successful)
   • Raja Ram Mohan Roy (RRMR)
   • Swami Dayanand Saraswati (SDS)
3. No mass movement focus
   • RRMC
   • Devendra Nath Tagore
4. Mass movement focus
   • SDS
   • Keshav Chandra Sen
   • Swami Vivekananda (SV)
5. Rationality supreme
   • Pre 1857 reformers - eg. RRMR
6. Vedas supreme
   • Post 1857
     • eg. SDS, SV
7. Slow pace, smaller reforms first (caste, women)
   • didn’t want to anger masses by questioning popular practices
8. Fast pace, bigger reforms first
   • Young Bengal
   • SDS
   • SV
   • VS