Modern India

Revivalism (पुनःपरिवर्तनवाद)

English

Period19th Century Socio-Religious Reform Exam importanceMedium

A strand within 19th-century socio-religious reform movements that sought renewal by returning to what were held to be the “pure,” original forms of Hindu (or other) religious traditions — e.g. the Arya Samaj’s call to return to Vedic religion — distinct from purely reformist or Westernising currents.

Understand it like this

Revivalist and purely reformist impulses often coexisted uneasily within the SAME movement — the Arya Samaj, for instance, combined genuinely progressive social reform (opposing child marriage, promoting widow remarriage and women's education) with a revivalist insistence on Vedic infallibility and, through its Shuddhi movement, active religious reconversion — a combination historians use to complicate any simple "reform vs. revival" binary.

हिंदी में

काल19th Century Socio-Religious Reform परीक्षा महत्वमध्यम

19वीं सदी के सामाजिक-धार्मिक सुधार आंदोलनों की एक धारा, जो हिंदू (या अन्य) धार्मिक परंपराओं के मूल, "शुद्ध" रूपों की ओर लौटकर नवीकरण की मांग करती थी — जैसे आर्य समाज का वैदिक धर्म की ओर लौटने का आह्वान।

इसे ऐसे समझें

पुनरुत्थानवादी और विशुद्ध सुधारवादी प्रवृत्तियां प्रायः एक ही आंदोलन के भीतर असहज रूप से सह-अस्तित्व में रहीं — उदाहरणार्थ आर्य समाज ने वास्तविक प्रगतिशील सामाजिक सुधार (बाल विवाह का विरोध, विधवा पुनर्विवाह और स्त्री शिक्षा को बढ़ावा) को वैदिक अचूकता के पुनरुत्थानवादी आग्रह के साथ जोड़ा।

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