and work.
service during
natural calamities,
and to promote
education,
sanitation, physical
culture etc.
Seva Samiti 1914 Bombay Shri Ram Its aim was to bring
Boy Scouts’ Bajpai about the complete
Association Indianisation of the
Boy Scout
Movement in India.
Women’s 1923 Madras Not available Its aim was to
Indian promote the welfare
Association of Indian women
(from 1926 All
India Women’s
Conference began
to hold annual
meetings).
Rahnumai 1851 Bombay Naoroji Its aims were to
Mazdayasnan Furdunji, reform the
Sabha Dadabhai Zoroastrian
(Religious Naoroji, SS religion, to
reform Bengalee and modernise the Parsi
organisation others women (Avesta—
of the Parsis) Sacred book of the
Parsis, Ahura
Mazda—their god,
Zoroaster—founder
of their religion).
Nirankaris 1840s Punjab Dayal Das, Purification of
Darbara Sikhism
Singh, Rattan
Chand, etc. in