Indian renaissance

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cultural movement historical period intellectual movement social reform movement

The Indian renaissance was a broad 19th- and early 20th-century cultural, intellectual, and social reform movement that sought to revive and reinterpret India’s spiritual and philosophical heritage in response to colonial modernity.

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Label	Occurrences
Indian Renaissance	2
Indian Renaissance movements	1
Indian renaissance canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ social reform movement ⓘ
hasCause	British colonial rule in India ⓘ encounter with Western modernity ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	critique of superstition ⓘ emergence of modern public sphere in India ⓘ emphasis on moral reform ⓘ emphasis on rationality ⓘ emphasis on social ethics ⓘ growth of vernacular print culture ⓘ reinterpretation of scriptures ⓘ synthesis of Western and Indian ideas ⓘ
hasEndTime	early 20th century ⓘ
hasLocation	India NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainSubject	Hindu reform ⓘ abolition of social evils ⓘ national consciousness in India ⓘ religious universalism ⓘ social equality ⓘ women’s rights in India ⓘ
hasPart	Bengal Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ Hindu reform movements NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian educational reform initiatives ⓘ campaigns against caste discrimination ⓘ campaigns against child marriage ⓘ campaigns against sati ⓘ campaigns for female education ⓘ campaigns for widow remarriage ⓘ modern Indian literary movements ⓘ religious reform movements in India ⓘ social reform movements in 19th-century India ⓘ women’s reform movements in India ⓘ
hasPurpose	cultural regeneration of India ⓘ educational reform in India ⓘ reinterpretation of Indian philosophical traditions ⓘ religious reform in India ⓘ revival of Indian spiritual heritage ⓘ social reform in Indian society ⓘ
hasStartTime	19th century ⓘ
influenced	Indian independence movement NERFINISHED ⓘ Indian nationalism ⓘ modern Indian education ⓘ modern Indian literature ⓘ modern Indian religious movements ⓘ
influencedBy	Christian missionary critique of Indian society ⓘ European Enlightenment NERFINISHED ⓘ Western liberal thought ⓘ modern science and rationalism ⓘ

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The Foundations of Indian Culture → mainSubject → Indian renaissance ⓘ

Raja Ram Mohan Roy → influenced → Indian renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian Renaissance

Brahmo Samaj → relatedTo → Indian renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian Renaissance movements

Dyal Singh Majithia → movement → Indian renaissance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian Renaissance