Hungarian Information and Cultural Centre
cordially invites you to a
lecture
ADAPTIBILITY OF HINDU VALUES
Pre- and Post-Independence Hindu Movements
Orsolya Szász
on Monday, 18th February, 2013 at 6:00 pm
at 1/A Janpath, New Delhi 110 011
(Near Hotel Claridges)
Please join us for tea after the programme
by
The lecture will be presented by Orsolya Szász who is presently in India
under the Indo-Hungarian Exchange programme doing research work
affiliated with the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Delhi. The field of her
research deals with Hindu values and social welfare activities among the
d i s c i p l e s o f G u r u S a t p a l j i M a h a r a j .
The presentation focuses on the last period of Hindu history, which is the
best example of the adaptibility of Hindu belief, world-view and practices. In
the second half of the 19th century, the joint threat of British political
authority, the Christian missionary activities and the Muslim influence
founded those reforms and revived Hindu movements which sought to
evoke the ancient Hindu traditions while easing from the degradations,
s u p e r s t i t i o n s a n d s o c i a l e v i l s a t t a c h e d t o t h e m