Research Paper
CONTRIBUTION OF DEV SAMAJ MOVEMENT IN SOCIORELIGIOUS REFORMS IN PUNJAB
Author: DR. KULDEEP KAUR DHALIWAL*, SAPNA PATHAK**,
*(Supervisor) Principal, Mata Ganga Khalsa College for Girls (Kottan), Ludhiana (Punjab) India.
**(Ph.D)Research Scholar [Desh Bhagat University] Mandi Gobindgarh (Punjab) India. e-Mail : romaniabiosearch@gmail.com
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In 19th century many socio-religious reform movement rises in India like Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, Singh Sabha, Namdhari Movement and Dev Samaj also, but in this paper, the researcher has only discussed in the topic of Dev Samaj movement and its role of eradicating various social evils and people’s orthodox ideologies. It was a reformative, revivalist, movement. Through this movement, social evils were attacked like child marriage, prohibition of widow remarriage, Purdah system, dowry system, inequality of people and orthodox ideology etc. This movement found the reasons for women suffering in society. The researcher has discussed the role of Dev Samaj movement which has been also commendable. It also played significant role in removing social evils and religious orthodox views of the people.
