Question

Tell about Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Answer 1

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born in 1772 to a rich family of Bengal. He studied various languages including Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit and English. He published his first book tohfat-ul-Mohiddin in 1803, in which he stated that all religions preached the worship of one good. He strongly criticised idol worship and meaningless religious rituals.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy worked as a religious and social reformer. He was against the barriers of caste divisions and social evils, such as sati and propagated widow remarriage. As a result, the British Government passed a law abolishing sati in 1829.
He wanted Indian society to move away from the superstitious rituals to a more rational worldview. He condemned the unfair practice of the Bengal zamindars towards the peasants. He started the Brahmo Samaj in an attempt to change the excessive dependence on religious rituals of society. He demanded that women be given the right of inheritance and property.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy has very liberal views on education for girls and hence opened various schools for them.

He was regarded as the father of the Indian Renaissance.



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Answer 2

Raja Ram Mohan Roy (22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was the founder of the Brahmo Sabha movement in 1828, which engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential socio-religious reform movement. He knows more than 5 languages.His influence was apparent in the fields of politics, public administration and education as well as religion. He was known for his efforts to establish the abolishment of the practice of sati, the Hindu funeral practice in which the widow was compelled to sacrifice herself in her husband’s funeral pyre in some parts of Bengal.