Siva- nath Sastri, a great scholar of the nineteenth century,
tore off his Brahmanic sacred thread, to adopt the new religion, Brahmoism.
On one side were
members from the"Hindi-speaking provinces" like Algu Rai Sastri, R.V. Dhulekar,
Balkrishna Sharma, Purushottam Das Tandon,(all from United Provinces), Babunath Gupta(Bihar), Hari Vinayak Pataskar(Bombay) and Ravi Shankar Shukla, Seth Govind Das Central Provinces and Berar.
According to Samaren Roy:" Here were born many of the religious and social reformers of nineteenth- century Bengal, notable among them, Rajnarain Bose( maternal grandfather of Aurobindo and Barin), Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan,
the famous editor of the Som Prakasa and associate of Pandit Sivanath Sastri.