how much successfully was the bengal Renaissance
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For over 500 years, the city of London has provided food for thought to Bengali intelligentsia back in Calcutta, now Kolkata. Throughout the duration of East India Company rule in India, there were calls for greater power for Indians in their own land starting from greater autonomy, social justice and finally outright independence. This brought leading intellectuals to London, many of whom finally shaped the famed nineteenth century Bengali Renaissance. This is a journey to some of the less visited places in London which bear the legacy of some hallowed sons of Bengal.
In 1830, the Father of Modern India Rammohan Roy had travelled to London as an envoy the Mughal emperor Akbar Shah II, who invested him with the title of Raja. He stayed in London at the house of Joseph Hare, brother of celebrated Indologist David Hare, in Bedford Square, before moving to Bristol.
While in London, he campaigned on behalf of 1832 Reform Act as well as spread his Unitarian message of Brahmo Samaj in UK, a legacy later carried forward by another stalwart, Keshab Chandra Sen, evidences of which can still be seen at Lewin’s Chapel. West of London, the town of Bristol carries forward the legacy of the Raja even to this day. He died at Stapleton, on 27 September 1833 of meningitis and was reburied at the prestigious newly built Arnos Vale Cemetery in southern Bristol in an ornate mausoleum designed byWilliam Princep and funded by Prince Dwarakanath.