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6 unusual facts about Sadharan Brahmo Samaj


Brajendra Nath Seal

And along with his better known classmate and friend Narendranath Dutta, the future Swami Vivekananda, he regularly attended meetings of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.

Ramananda Chatterjee

Pleased at the success of Chatterjee, professor Heramba Chandra Maitra offered him the post of assistant editor at the Indian Messenger, the mouthpiece of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, of which he was the editor at that time.

Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

1850 Debendranath Tagore publishes the Brahmo Dharma in English (it had been previously privately published in Bengali in 1848).

Young Brahmo Master Hemendranath Tagore (third son of Debendranath) is anointed MahaAcharya by the outgoing Tattwabodhini Council with the approval of Debendranath.

1843 Debendranath and 20 of his Tattawobodhini companions are formally initiated in the Brahmo Sabha by Ram Chandra Vidyabagish on December 21, (7th Paush 1765 B.E.).

The new doctrine of Hindu nationalism is forcefully articulated before orthodox Hindu leaders of Calcutta by Adi Brahmo Samaj President Rajnarayan Basu, in a lecture entitled "The Superiority of Hinduism".



see also

Umesh Chandra

Umesh Chandra Dutta, was one of the founders of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.