Yes, a writ petition filed by the aggrieved person, whether on behalf of a group or together with a group can be treated as a Public Interest... View Article
Justice Bhagwati has been called the father of public interest litigation in India due to his contribution to Public Interest Litigation... View Article
The PIL started in India as a result of the feeling by some of the Supreme Court judges that mainly the rich and politically powerful people... View Article
The greatest contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar can be for his fervent push for the introduction of widow remarriage and girls education... View Article
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar pushed for greater reforms and social change in order to transform the orthodox Hindu society. He called for the... View Article
Ishwar Chandra gained the title Vidyasagar which means ocean of knowledge in Sanskrit. He earned the title when he was studying at the Sanskrit... View Article
Henry Vivian Derozio was a teacher at Hindu College at Calcutta, who promoted radical ideas and encouraged his students to question authority as... View Article
The Academic Association was started by Henry Louis Vivian Derozi - a firebrand teacher of Hindu College - along with his radical band of... View Article
The Derozians were a radical group of Bengali free thinkers who emerged from Hindu College. They named themselves after Henry Vivian Derozio, an... View Article
The Derozians were a radical group of Bengali free thinkers who emerged from Hindu College. They named themselves after Henry Vivian Derozio, a... View Article
The greatest contribution of Derozio was that helped discuss the ideas for social change already in the air. He also has the distinction of being... View Article
Derozio is still remembered due to him being a radical social reformer that propagated ideas to his students by encouraging them to debate freely... View Article
Henry Vivian Derozio died of Cholera at the age of 22. Known for starting the Young Bengal Movement, he was a radical thinker of his time... View Article
After a decade of decline, it was revived by Debendranath Tagore in 1843. A schism divided the organization in 1865, when Keshub Chunder Sen... View Article
Brahmo Samaj reformed Indian society by speaking out against social-evils like sati, child marriage etc. Through education they instilled in the... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy is called the father of the modern Indian Renaissance due to the remarkable changes he instituted in 18th and 19th century... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a social-reformer and the founder of the Brahmo Samaj that spearheaded a lot of socio-religious movements that sought to... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy is famous for spearheading the religious and social reforms in India that called for the abolition of Sati and remarriage of... View Article
Peasants can be classified on the following basis: Basis of Land Ownership Size of Land Holdings Resource Ownership. In these categories the... View Article