What social ideas did the following people support:
Rammohan Roy
Dayanand Saraswati
Veerasalingam Pantulu
Jyotirao Phule
Pandita Ramabai
Periyar
Mumtaz Ali
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
These people supported the following ideas:
(i) Spread of education among women.
(ii) Widow remarriage.
(iii) Caste equality and justice.
(iv) Abolition of child marriage.
(v) Social equality for untouchables.
(vi)Self respect movement for untouchables
(vii)women's education
(viii)Widow remarriage
Social reformers had to discard the ancient texts in order to argue for reform in social practices.
When the British captured Bengal they framed many new laws to regulate the rules regarding marriage, adoption, inheritance of property, etc.