Indian Renaissance: Socio-Religious and Socio- Cultural Reform Movements
Raja Rammohan Roy
- He was born in 1772 and is considered as the first ‘modern man of India’.
- He studied the Bible as well as Hindu and Muslim religious texts. He had excellent command over many languages including English, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
- He established the Atmiya Sabha in 1815, which developed into Brahmo Samaj in 1828. The objective of the organization was to purify Hinduism of medieval irrelevant practices and to preach monotheism.
- Raj Rammohan Roy is most remembered for helping Lord William Bentinck to declare the practice of Sati a punishable offence in 1829.
- He also ....
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