| Name(s) |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
| Date of
Birth |
May 22, 1772
– Radhanagore, Bengal, India |
| Date of
Death |
September 27, 1833
– Bristol, England, U.K. |
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Identity |
Indian religious, social, and educational
reformer. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
July 13, 1830 - The General Assembly's
Institution, now the Scottish Church College,
one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal
Renaissance, was founded on this day by
Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
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Other Events &
Developments |
- He was a great humanitarian, who
challenged the traditional Hindu culture and
advocated the lines of progress for Indian society.
- He is recognised as the "Maker of Modern India".
- He is also regarded as the "Father of the Bengal
Renaissance".
- He, along with Dwarkanath Tagore and other Bengalis,
founded the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, which is
regarded as an influential Indian socio-religious reform
movement during the Bengal Renaissance.
- He is known for his efforts to abolish sati,
the Hindu funeral practice in which the widow immolated
herself on her husband's funeral pyre, and child
marriage.
- He was a great proponent for revival of the ethics and
principles of the Vedanta school of
philosophy as found in the Upanishads.
- He made early translations of Vedic scriptures
into English, co-founded the Calcutta
Unitarian Society, founded the Brahmo Samaj,
and campaigned against sati.
- He sought to integrate Western culture with Indian
traditions and established schools to modernise the
system of education in India.
- He was the first person amongst the
educated Indians, to sail to England in 1830.
- At the time, Roy was an ambassador of the Mughal
emperor Akbar II, who conferred on him the title of
Raja.
- Roy died in Britain at Stapleton, Bristol,
on 27 September 1833 due to meningitis.
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Commemorations |
The epitaph of Roy at his tomb monument
(built by Dwarkanath Tagore in 1843) in
Bristol, England, reads as under:
- Beneath this stone rest the remains of Raja Rammohun Roy
Bahadoor.
- A conscientious and steadfast believer in the unity of
the Godhead, he consecrated his life with entire devotion to
the worship of the divine spirit alone. To great natural
talents, he united thorough mastery of many languages and
early distinguished himself as one of the greatest scholars
of his day. His unwearied labours to promote the social,
moral and physical condition of the people of India, his
earnest endeavours to suppress idolatry, and the rite of
suttee and his constant zealous advocacy of whatever tended
to advance the glory of God and the welfare of man live in
the grateful remembrance of his countrymen.
- This tablet records the sorrow and pride with which his
memory is cherished by his descendants.
- Given at the end are the dates and places of his birth
and death.
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