# Ram Mohan Roy

> He convinced the British to outlaw widow-burning. In early 19th-century Bengal, Ram Mohan Roy turned religious argument into legislative change, using Sanskrit texts to dismantle the practice of sati and remaking what reform could mean in colonial India.

*Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** India
- **Born:** 1772-05-22
- **Died:** 1833-09-27
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1772, Roy grew up in a Bengal where ritual and hierarchy were rarely questioned. He learned Sanskrit, Persian, and English, then turned all three against practices he saw as corrupt. In 1828 he founded the Brahmo Sabha, a reform society that would become the Brahmo Samaj, challenging caste and ritual with a stripped-down theism. He campaigned against sati and child marriage, wrote the first complete grammar of Bengali, and pushed for modern education. The Mughal emperor Akbar II gave him the title Raja. He died in England in 1833, far from the renaissance he'd started.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 58.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 4.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #Philosophy, #Literature, #Early Modern Era

## Sources
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