Keshab Chandra Sen founded new institutions almost every decade. Not every reform body carrying his name was actually his, though.
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MCQ QuestionsModHist0343 · Keshab Chandra Sen
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Sen founded two of three institutions named in this question
The Calcutta Unitarian Committee predates him by decades.
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Year Sen founded the Tabernacle of New Dispensation
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Year Sen founded the Indian Reform Association
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Year the Calcutta Unitarian Committee was founded, by Rammohan Roy and others
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Cheap periodical published by the Indian Reform Association
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Body eventually formed by Sen’s Brahmo Samaj faction
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What Sen Actually Founded
- Tabernacle of New Dispensation Keshab Chandra Sen founded the Tabernacle of New Dispensation, laying its foundation in 1868.
- Indian Reform Association Sen founded the Indian Reform Association in 1870, working on education, temperance, and social reform.
- Not the Calcutta Unitarian Committee Sen did not found the Calcutta Unitarian Committee. Rammohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore, and William Adam established it in 1821, before Sen was even born.
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What These Institutions Did
- Universal worship The Tabernacle of New Dispensation preached a synthesis of world religions, as a place of universal worship.
- Reform Association's scope The Indian Reform Association worked on five areas: female improvement, working-class education, cheap literature, temperance, and charity.
- Cheap literature The Association published Sulabh Samachar, a low-cost periodical meant to reach a wider readership.
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A Reformer's Wider Story
- A split from Brahmo Samaj Sen led a faction that broke from the original Brahmo Samaj, eventually forming the Brahmo Samaj of India.
- British influence A visit to Great Britain shaped several of the reform ideas Sen later put into practice through the Indian Reform Association.
- Why the Unitarian link is tempting Sen maintained ties with Unitarian missionaries, which is likely why exam questions test whether readers confuse influence with founding.
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Which of These Did Sen Actually Establish?
- Answer: (b) 2 and 3 only Keshab Chandra Sen founded the Tabernacle of New Dispensation and the Indian Reform Association, not the Calcutta Unitarian Committee.
- Why not the Committee The Calcutta Unitarian Committee was founded in 1821 by Rammohan Roy and others, years before Sen's own career began.
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