Thinkers in Modern India
The central figure in the awakening was a great scholar who is rightly regarded as the first great leader of modern India. The upper classes were selfish and often sacrificed social interest to their own narrow interests. He possessed great love and respect for the traditional philosophic systems of the East; but, at the same time, he believed that Western culture alone would help to regenerate Indian society. Who was he?
-- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
In 1809, Ram Mohan Roy wrote his famous work Gift to Monotheists in Persian. In this work, he put forward weighty arguments against belief ....
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