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'''Manav Dharma Sabha''' was one of the earliest socio-religious reform organization in [[Gujarat]] and [[British India]]. It was founded on 22 June 1844 in [[Surat]] by [[Durgaram Manchharam Mehta]], [[Dadoba Pandurang Tarkhadkar]] and a few others. The goals of the Sabha were to expose the hypocritical arts present in Christian, Muslim and Hindu religions. It had a very short life span and ceased to exist as Dadoba left for [[Bombay]] in 1846 and Durgaram left for [[Rajkot]] in 1852.<ref name="Jones1989">{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Kenneth W.|title=Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HV4nHv8urgC&pg=PA137|year=1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-24986-7|page=137}}</ref><ref name="Haynes1991">{{cite book|last=Haynes|first=Douglas E.|title=Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928|url=https://archive.org/details/rhetoricritualin0000hayn|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06725-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/rhetoricritualin0000hayn/page/116 116]}}</ref><ref>''From Plassey to Partition'', Sekhara Bandyopadhya, p 153, {{ISBN|81-250-2596-0}}</ref><br />
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The main objective of Manav Dharma Sabha was to highlight the positive side of true religion based on truth and morality. The organization accepted the concept of [[monotheism]], a concept which belies in existence of one God only. The organization used to organize public meetings every Sunday in which the speakers used to exhort to give up [[Caste|casteism]], to encourage widow remarriages and to stop the practice of idol worship. The main activity of the organization was to abolish superstitious beliefs from the society and to ensure that people do not practice black magic, witchcraft and such other malpractices.<ref name="Kendra2007">{{cite book|editor1-last=Thaker|editor1-first=Dhirubhai|editor1-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|editor2-last=Desai|editor2-first=Kumarpal|editor2-link=Kumarpal Desai|title=Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4oMAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Smt. Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra, Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust|location=Ahmedabad|page=78|chapter=Social Reforms in Gujarat|oclc=680480939}}</ref><br />
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