what was the view of Raja ram Mohan Roy on liberty
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RRR was born in the period when classical liberalism was blooming in England, the implications of liberty were being more widely understood. RRR was also closely in touch with some of the leading classical liberals.
This was, remember, also the time when Malthus was the economics professor at the East India College, commonly known as Haileybury College, where he taught the civil servants selected to work in senior positions in India. The key work that Malthus used was Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (which was not even mentioned during my training at LBSNAA in 1982-84). The ideas of liberty therefore informed the young ICS officers who came to India. The environment everywhere was liberty-friendly, and RRR's genius was to pick up on the foundational principles of liberty.
He felt an urgency towards freedom that few, today, seem to feel in India.
I think we are well advised to revert to Raja Rammohun Roy's writings for useful guidance.
Love of freedom was the passion of his soul. He exulted in the triumph of liberty in any quarter of the globe. The story is told by Miss Collet how at Cape Colony on his way to England, the sight of the tricolour flag on two French ships lying at anchor in Table Bay fired his enthusiasm. Lame as he then was, owing to a serious fall from the gangway ladder, he insisted on visiting them. The sight of the republican flag seemed to render him insensible to pain. When the news of the three days’ revolution at Paris in July, 1830 reached Calcutta, his enthusiasm was so great that “he could think or talk of nothing else.” And we are told that, when the news of the establishment of a constitutional government in Spain was received in India, Rammohun Roy gave a public dinner in Calcutta.
His feelings about the British Reform Bill of 1832 are well known. He had publicly avowed that, in the event of the Bill being defeated, he would renounce his connection with England for all subsequent times. When the Bill was passing through its concluding stages in the House of Lords, his excitement was so great that he could not even write to his friends.
… He would be free or not be at all. …..Love of freedom was perhaps the strongest passion of his soul, freedom not of action merely, but of thought.
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