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Why did Hinduism need to reform? In 1828 has traditionally been regarded as beginning of a new era in the history of the British India as it underwent one of the most significant changes in its history ever. Hinduism needed to reform due to several pressures that it was facing at the current time. Firstly the mogul empire had overtaken India in the seventeenth century. Muslims fundamentally hold a monesthics belief. Their presence was particularly felt in the North of India, which is now known as Pakistan. The Muslim leaders of the Mughal Empire imposed shariah law and often attacked temples and images of Hindu deities. Many Hindu's were converted to Islam by the incentives of a lack of caste system, there was much more of an official universal doctrine and Islam was based on the ummah (brotherhood) thus highlighting the equality of all humans. Although originally when Muslims invaded...

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