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❦Keshab Chandra Sen
Brahmo Samaj reformer and public speaker
Brahmo Samaj leader who founded the Brahmo Samaj of India and later promoted the New Dispensation.
Biography
Context
In the context of Keshab Chandra Sen widened Brahmo public work through preaching, social-reform advocacy, and interregional outreach. His break with Debendranath Tagore’s Adi Brahmo Samaj produced a separate organization in 1866; in 1880 he articulated the universalist New Dispensation (Nava Vidhan)., Keshab Chandra Sen is recognized as Brahmo Samaj reformer and public speaker. Brahmo Samaj leader who founded the Brahmo Samaj of India and later promoted the New Dispensation.
Contribution
A leading nineteenth-century Brahmo reformer who joined the Samaj in 1857, became its Acharya in 1862, and later founded the Brahmo Samaj of India.
Impact
His career made Brahmo ideas more visible in debates over caste, women’s education, social reform, and religious universalism, while the 1878 split among his followers also shows the movement’s internal limits and disagreements.
Timeline Placement
Keshab Chandra Sen appears in 1 linked timeline events, spanning 1828.
First Appearance
1828
Latest Appearance
1828
Active Span
1828
Linked Events
1
Legacy Summary
His career made Brahmo ideas more visible in debates over caste, women’s education, social reform, and religious universalism, while the 1878 split among his followers also shows the movement’s internal limits and disagreements. This influence is reflected across 1 connected events.
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A History of Bangladesh
A synthetic history of Bangladesh from the long view through colonial encounters, East Pakistan, war, and independence.
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History
General Bangladesh history reference useful for political chronology around the Ershad takeover and the 1980s authoritarian period.
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