Question

Ramabai
Ranade
Raja Ram
Mohan Roy
Social
Reformers
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Answer 1

Answer:

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Ramabai Ranade (25 January 1862 – 25 January 1924) was an Indian social worker and one of the first women's rights activists in the 19th century. ... Ramabai was also a founder and President of 'Seva Sadan Society' in Mumbai and Pune. Ramabai devoted her life to the betterment of women's lives.

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy Contribution

Work and ideology

• He was opposed to Sati, polygamy, child marriage, idolatry, the caste system, and propagated widow remarriage.
• He stressed on rationalism and modern scientific approach.
• He believed in social equality of all human beings.
• He started many schools to educate Indians in Western scientific education in English.
• He was against the perceived polytheism of Hinduism. He advocated monotheism as given in the scriptures.
• He studied Christianity and Islam as well.
• He translated the Vedas and five of the Upanishads into Bengali.
• He started the Sambad Kaumudi, a Bengali weekly newspaper which regularly denounced Sati as barbaric and against the tenets of Hinduism.
• In 1828, he founded the Brahmo Sabha which was later renamed Brahmo Samaj. He had also founded the Atmiya Sabha.
• Brahmo Samaj’s chief aim was the worship of the eternal god. It was against priesthood, rituals and sacrifices. It focused on prayers, meditation and reading of the scriptures.
• It was the first intellectual reform movement in modern India where social evils then practised were condemned and efforts made to remove them from society.
• It led to the emergence of rationalism and enlightenment in India which indirectly contributed to the nationalist movement.
• The Brahmo Samaj believed in the unity of all religions.
• He worked for the improvement in the position of women. He advocated widow remarriage and education of women.
• His efforts led to the abolition of Sati in 1829 by Lord William Bentinck, the then Governor-General of India.
• He was a true humanist and democrat.
• He also spoke against the unjust policies of the British government especially the restrictions on press freedom.
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy and his Brahmo Samaj played a vital role in awakening Indian society to the pressing issues plaguing society at that time and also was the forerunner of all social, religious and political movements that happened in the country since.
• He visited England as an ambassador of the Mughal king Akbar Shah II (father of Bahadur Shah) where he died of a disease. He was awarded the title ‘Raja’ by Akbar II.