Brahmoism - Universities and Colleges Affiliated with the Brahmo Samaj, Adi Dharm, City College of Commerce and Business Administration, Bengal Renaissance, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Banga Mahila Vidyalaya, Brahmo Conference Organisation (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Universities and colleges affiliated with the Brahmo Samaj, Adi Dharm, City College of Commerce and Business Administration, Bengal Renaissance, Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Banga Mahila Vidyalaya, Brahmo Conference Organisation, Trust deed of Brahmo Sabha, Brahmo Dharma Beej, Rammohan College, Anandamohan College, World Brahmo Council, Umesh Chandra College, Heramba Chandra College, Sivnath Sastri College, Prafulla Chandra College. Excerpt: Adi Dharm refers to the religion of Adi Brahmo Samaj the first development of Brahmoism and includes those Sadharan Brahmo Samajists who were reintegrated into Brahmoism after the 2nd schism of 1878 at the instance of Hemendranath Tagore. This was the first organised casteless movement in British India and reverberated from its heart of Bengal to Assam, Bombay State (modern Sindh, Maharastra and Gujarat), Punjab and Madras, Hyderabad, Bangalore. It was never conceived as an "anti-caste" movement, but stood for repudiation of all "distinctions between people" and foundation of a modern educated secular Indian nation under the timeless and formless One God, and its adherents as Adi-Dharmis (or worshipers of the ancient formless indivisible One God Brahma or the Parambrahma "The One without a Second" or EkAdavaitam). Although the doctrine of Adi Dharma is superficially similar to other reformatory "sects" of Hinduism which speak of "different paths to One God," the core beliefs of Adi Dharm irrevocably place Adi Dharm and Brahmoism as the youngest of India's 9 religions beyond the pale of "Hinduism's catholicism and elasticity." The core Adi-Dharma doctrinal beliefs differing from Hinduism include: - The Adi Dharma Brahmic religion was originated by the Bengali Brahmin Thakur clan of Ram Mohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and Prasanna Coomar Tagore who were Rarhi Brahmins of the Vandhopadyaya (...