ABSTRACT
The Brahmo Samaj was the first movement for socio-religious reforms initiated in India in the nineteenth century under the impact of Western ideas, culture and technology. The founder of the Brahmo Samaj, Raja Rammohun Roy, and an influential body of his followers were always in close touch with the Bihar province. Keshub Chandra Sen decided that social reforms were to be an integral part of the Brahmo faith. He was, of course, echoing the ideas of the founder. The Brahmo Samaj movement seemed to have received great impetus after a visit of Keshub to Monghyr in 1868. After the death of Keshub in 1884, the rivalry between the different groups in Samaj considerably lessened. They began to cooperate with each other. An important development in the history of Brahmo Samaj in Bihar was the establishment of Sadhanashram. Originally the institution was started by Sivanath Sastri in 1891 as a Brahmo worker's shelter in Calcutta, but soon it was renamed Sadhanashram.
