ABSTRACT
by the year 1870 the Brahma Samaj, especially among its younger and more advanced members, had brought about within the Hindu community itself a deep desire to carry through certain social and educational reforms on purely Western lines. The majority of educated Indians were thus becoming cut off from those who had not received a Western education. It became the fashion even in the smaller things of life to imitate the West. Though no religious change was contemplated, the West was morally and intellectually all-pervasive. There was no outstanding Indian leader as yet who was strong enough to challenge this process altogether.
