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Raja Rammohan Roy : Social Reformer of India
1. Raja Ram Mohan Roy (May 22, 1772 - September 27, 1833) was a founder (with Dwarkanath Tagore and other Bengali Brahmins) of the Brahma Sabha in 1828 which engendered the Brahmo Samaj, an influential Indian socio-religious reform movement. 2. His leverage was clear-cut in the areas of government, public management and learning as well as religion. He is best renowned for his efforts to abolish the perform of sati, the Hindu burial perform in which the widow was compelled to forfeit herself on her husband's burial pyre. 3. It was he who first presented the phrase "Hinduism" into the English dialect in 1816. For his varied assistance to humanity. 4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy is considered as one of the most significant personalities in the Bengal Renaissance. His efforts to defend Hinduism and Indian privileges by taking part in British government acquired him the name "The Father of the Bengal Renaissance" or "The Father of the Indian Nation." 5. Roy was born in Radhanagari, Bengal, in 1774 (some causes propose 1772). His family backdrop brandished devout diversity -his dad Ramkanta was a Vaishnavite, while his mother Tarinidevi was from a Shivaite family. This was odd for Vaishanavites did not routinely wed Shaivites at the time. 6. He was wed three times by the time he was 10 years old, which dropped in the firm structure of his polygamous and caste customs. His first wife past away early in his childhood. He conceived two children, Radhaprasad in 1800 and Ramaprasad in 1812 with his second wife, who past away in 1824. Roy's third wife outlived him. 7. Rammohan begun his prescribed learning in the town pathshala where he wise Bengali and some Sankrit and Persian. Later he is said to have investigated Persian and Arabic in a madrasa in Patna and after that he was dispatched to Benares (Kashi) for discovering the intricacies of Sanskrit and Hindu scripture, encompassing the Vedas and Upanishads. 8. Religious reforms of Rammohan Roy
13. He passed away at Stapleton, then a town to the north east of Bristol (now a suburb) on the 27th September 1833 of meningitis and is interred in Arnos Vale Cemetery in south Bristol. |
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