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Friday, August 12, 2011

Social Movements/Organisations and their founders

Movement/Organisation Founder
VanmahotsavKM Munshi
Saryodaya, BhoodanAcharya Vinobha Bhave
ChipkoSunderlal Bahaguna
Servants of India SocietyGK Gokhale
Servants of People SocietyLala Lajpat Rai
Servants of God or Khudai KhidmatgarKhan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Gyan Prasarak MandaliDadabhai Naoroji
Theosophical SocietyMadame H. P. Blavatsky
Missionaries of CharityMother Teresa
Home Rule MovementAnnie Besant and Bal Gangadhar
Narmada BachaoMedha Patkar
Prarthana SamajRG Bhandarkar & MG Ranade
Arya SamajDayanand Saraswati (Guj)
Brahmo SamajRaja Ram Mohan Roy
Self-respect MovementEV Ramaswamy Naicker
Tattvabodhini SabhaDebendranath Tagore
Sadbhavna ke SipahiSunil Datt
Satyasodhak SamajJyotiba Phule (Mah)
Shree Narayana Dharma Paripalana YogamShri Narayaana Guru
Bahiskrit Hitkarni SabhaDr BR Ambedkar
Dev Samaj (an atheistic movement) Swami Satyanand Agnihotri
Aligarh movementSir Syed Ahmed Khan
Rashtriya Swayam Sevak SanghDr Baliram Hedgewar
Abhinav BharatVir Savarkar
Sulabh InternationalDr Bindeshwar Pathak
Bhartiya Vidya BhavanKanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Red CrossJH Dunant
ScoutsBaden Powell
GuidesLady Agnes Baden Powell
Amnesty InternationalPeter Benenson
Transparency InternationalPeter Eigen
Back to the Vedas slogan was given by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. He also started the Shuddhi movement and brought back to Hinduism many people who had embraced Islam or Christianity. (D.A.V – Dayanand Anglo Vernacular)

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