This is a power point presentation based on social studies 8th standard history book.it has a lot of illustrations and explanation it also has sound effects it also has an small visual quiz with 5 question i wish all of you to see this .especially for 8th graders who is having difficulties the history lessons i hope it will be boon to them
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1. Two hundred years ago things were totally different children
were married off at an early age .In some parts of the country
widows were praised if they chose death by burning themselves in
the funeral pyre of their husbands . Differences between men and
women were not the only ones in the society. Kshatriyas and
brahmins considered themselves as the upper caste and considered
the other peasants money lenders potters weavers as lower caste.
They also considered some as untouchables as the work they did were
polluting i.e. it could lead to the loss of caste status of the
upper caste. Thus a change was necessary during this period.
2. From the early nineteenth century we find debates and
discussions about social customs and practices taking on a new
character. An important reason for this is the cheaper forms media
which allows more people to access more information and express
their own ideas thus this took an important turn in social
reforms.
3. Sri Raja Ram Mohan Roy a social reformer born in Calcutta in
1772 initiated many debates which formed a reform group called as
the brahmo Sabah. He felt that changes were necessary in society.
He with he help of British abolished sati.
4. Sri Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi (Father of the Nation) was
the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the
Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of
'satyagraha'resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience,
firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violencewhich led India to
independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom
across the world. Gandhi led nationwide campaigns to ease poverty,
expand women's rights, build religious and ethnic amity, end
untouchability, and increase economic self-reliance
5. Basava(11341196), also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna or
Basaveshwara was a philosopher, Statesman and a social reformer
from present-day Karnataka, India. Basava fought against the
inhuman practice of caste system, which discriminated people based
on their birth, and certain rituals in Hinduism. He spread social
awareness through his poetry, popularly known as Vachanaas.
Basavanna used Ishtalinga to eradicate untouchability, establish
equality among all human beings and a means to attain spiritual
enlightenment. These are rational and progressive social thoughts
coupled with established perception of God in Hindu society. He was
a great philosopher.
6. Srimanta Sankardev(14491568), was a 15th16th century
Assamese polymath: a saint-scholar, poet, playwright,
social-religious reformer and a colossal figure in the
socio-cultural and religious history of Assam, India. . The
religion he preached is practised by a large population, and
Sattras (monasteries) that he and his followers established
continue to flourish and sustain his legacy.
7. Kabir (14401518) was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose
writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. Kabir is the
first Indian saint to have harmonized Hinduism and Islam by
preaching a universal path which both Hindus and Muslims could
tread together.
8. Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 4 July 1902) was the
founder of Ramakrishna Mission. Swami Vivekananda was also known as
a great scholar. His real name was Narendra Nath Dutta. Vivekananda
is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in
modern India. He was considered a key figure in the introduction of
Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America. He introduced Hinduism at
the Parliament of the World's Religions at Chicago in 1893.
9. Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest
this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.
Do this either by work, or worship, or mental discipline, or
philosophyby one, or more, or all of theseand be free. This is the
whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or
temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
10. Vivekananda linked morality with control of the mind,
seeing truth, purity and unselfishness as traits which strengthened
it. He advised his followers to be holy, unselfish and to have
raddh (faith). Vivekananda supported brahmacharya (celibacy),
believing it the source of his physical and mental stamina and
eloquence.He emphasized that success was an outcome of focused
thought and action; in his lectures on Raja Yoga he said, "Take up
one idea. Make that one idea your life think of it, dream of it,
live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of
your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea
alone. This is the way to success,
11. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (18201891) was a philosopher,
academic, educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher,
entrepreneur, reformer, and philanthropist. His efforts to simplify
and modernise Bangla prose were significant. He was a Bengali
polymath and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. Vidyasagar
championed the uplift of the status of women in India, particularly
in his native Bengal.
12. Unlike some other reformers who sought to set up
alternative societies or systems, he sought, however, to transform
orthodox Hindu society from within. Vidyasagar introduced the
practice of widow remarriages to mainstream Hindu society. In
earlier times, remarriages of widows would occur sporadically only
among progressive members of the Brahmo Samj.
13. Ramabai was born on April 23, 1858 in Dakshina Kannada
District, Mala, Gangamoola, Karn ataka. She was a social reformer
who tried her level best to educate women .
14. Virchand Gandhi was from Mahuva. He advocated female
education. He is a 19th-century Indian patriot who was a friend of
Mahatma Gandhi and contemporary to Swami Vivekanand. He and swami
vivekananda drew equal attention at the first World Parliament of
Religions in Chicago in 1893. He won a silver medal in same. His
statue still stands at the Jain temple in Chicago