Manav Dharma Sabha

Manav Dharma Sabha was one of the earliest socio-religious reform movements in Gujarat and British India. It was founded on 22 June 1844 in Surat by Mehtaji Durgaram Manchharam, Dadoba Panderung Tarkhad and a few others. The goals of the Sabha were to expose the hypocritical arts present in Christian, Muslim and Hindu religions. It had a very short life span and ceased to exist as Dadoba left for Bombay in 1846 and Durgaram left for Rajkot in 1852.^{[1] [2]} It acted as a secret society and is believed that the revelation of its existence compounded to its demise.^[3]

References

1. ^ Socio religious reform movements in India, Kenneth W. Jones and Gordon Johnson, p 137-139, ISBN 0521249864
2. ^ Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India, Douglas E Haynes, p 116
3. ^ From Plassey to Partition, Sekhara Bandyopadhya, p 153, ISBN 8125025960