Ram Mohan Roy
Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian · India · Academics · Lived 1772 to 1833 · aged 61
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Something wrong?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.
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Portrait of Raja Ram Mohun Roy, 1833
Bust portrait of the Hindu reformer Ram Mohan Roy.
Painting of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy (রামমোহন রায়) অথবা রাজা রাম মোহন রায়
Raja Rammohan Roy
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Ram Mohan Roy in Mahaapurushhula-jiivitamulu (page 8 crop)In their own words 3
, Ram Mohun replied by writing a satire in Bengali, Padari Sisya Sambad, published in 1823, in order to ridicule the doctrine of Trinity.
Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and Distinctions of Big Mansions.
Roy’s resentment of Christians as ‘persons who travel to a distant country for the purpose of overturning the opinions of its inhabitants and introducing their own’.
About this person
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.
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