Social reform in India faced opposition from both political reformers and socialists.

Evidence

The path of social reform, like the path to heaven (at any rate, in India), is strewn with many difficulties. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics. The critics fall into two distinct classes. One class consists of political reformers, and the other of the socialists. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 813