Bengali Brahmos are those who adhere to Brahmoism, the philosophy of Brahmo Samaj which was founded by Raja Rammohan Roy. A recent publication describes the disproportionate influence of Brahmos on India's development post-19th Century as unparalleled in recent times.

Distinction between Brahmo and Brahmo Samajist

One aspect of Brahmoism is recognition that not only explicit faith and worship makes for a Brahmo, but also genealogy, which is implicit. People with even a single Brahmo parent or a Brahmo guardian are treated as Brahmos until they absolutely renounce the Brahmo faith. This often causes tension within the Samaj, for example, when an offspring of a Brahmo follows atheism or another religious belief without renouncing Brahmoism formally. There are differing views between the Theist and Deist streams of Brahmoism on the retention of such people within the fold. Additionally, a Brahmo who opts not to subscribe to membership of a Brahmo Samaj remains a Brahmo but ceases to be a Brahmo Samajist.

People associated with Brahmo Samaj

Banerjee

Chakrabarty

Chattopadhayay

Bose

Das

Dey

Dutta

Ganguly

Goswami

Gupta

Mahalanobis

Mitra

Moitra

Mukherjee

Nag Chaudhuri

Pal

Pal Chowdhury

Ray/Roy

Sanyal

Sarkar

Sen

Sen family

Sinha

Baron Sinha family

Tagore

Tagore family

Others