Thursday, August 11, 2011

Social evils in india during nineteenth century?

The main social evil of 19th century Indian soceity was deep rooted superstition in the name of religious belief. To day, we can't imagine the volume of superstition that were in existence then. "SATI" was one notorious superstitious belief then in Indian soceity, when a widows were compelled to follow their dead husband in the burnig ghat, and the widows were used to be burnt alive along with her dead husband. Ram mohun Roy and his followers who protested this inhuman system were boycottet and even ulted by the then social leaders in the name of protecting relegion. Boys were not allowed to go to school, women were not allowed to go outside her residence. Ram mohun Roy was deprived of hes ancestoral properties by his father as punishment for resisting "SATI" . Another notorious social evil was KULIN system. KULIN means the people belonging to higher cast. They had to marry 40/50, sometimes more than 100 minor girls in the name of keeping relegion, otherwise there were no place of those unmarried girls in the soceity. So in case of death of that KULIN male, all the girls got forcibly married with him became widow at ther pre-teen age. In short Superstition, blind religious belief, complete absence of education were some of the social evils in 19th century. Simaltaneously we should keep in mind that fight against those social evils were also commenced in 19 th century - thanks to Raja Ram mohun Roy , Pandit Ishwar chandra Vidyasagar, Keshab Chandre Sen , Jyotibha Phule and other greats of 19th century.

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