*Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, C.C.S. University, Meerut, U.P.
**Professor, Department of Sociology, C.C.S. University, Meerut, U.P.
Online published on 6 May, 2016.
Ideology very simply denotes a set of related belief held by a group of people. Most of the movements, aiming at social reforms, were directed against the existing inequalities, inhuman treatment of the majority by a few, awful customs and traditions which discriminate women from men, lower castes from the twice born etc. Most of the social reform movements attempted a limited modification in the Hindu Social order, rather than changing it totally. In all these the leader has been important for guiding the movement but an ideology is also equally important as it makes people understand and justify the implications of their action. An ideology indicates the goal, means and forms of practical activities of a social group and of individuals who take part in it. In this paper the question of ideology has been studied in the context of ‘Yug Nirman Movement’. The present study mainly focuses on “What are the aims and objectives and ideology of the movement”?, It also aims to know the changes to be brought in and how, i.e. ideas/aims, methods, programmes, means, emergence and its religious base. Data were collected from the available literature and interviews of the knowledgeable persons of the movement who themselves have seen the founder working and the movement growing and participated in propagating. All ideas, aims-objectives, programmes are influenced directly or indirectly by the ideology initiated by the founder for the revival of a religious tradition which may reform the existing patterns. We may locate the roots of in the ideology in ancient Indian Rishis. The founder gave a three-tier formula for the development of national character in term of individual, family and community reformation. He gave hundred-point programme for the multidimensional reformation of the society. To fulfill the two main ideals i.e. to establish the foundation of ‘Devetva’ in man and to descend heaven on the earth-he divided 100 points programmes which is divided into three parts as three main objectives-healthy physique, healthy mind/pure soul and civilized society. To fulfill his two ideals, he has also suggested three methods-Upasana(worship of God), Sadhana(disciplined life), Aradhana(social service).
