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Biography of Raja Ram Mohan Roy



EARLY LIFE

Following the customs of the time, Raja Ram Mohan roy ( রাজা রামমোহন রায় ) had a kid marriage at age nine however his first spouse passed on not long after the marriage.

He was hitched for a second time at ten and had two children from the marriage. After the demise of his second spouse in 1826, he wedded for a third time and his third wife outlasted him.


Ram Mohan Roy's initial instruction is a contested. One see is that "Ram Mohan began his conventional training in the town pathshala where he learned Bengali and some Sanskrit and Persian.


He became significant student and researcher of Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, English and Bengali; and unknown dialects, for example, Greek, Latin and Hebrew.


Later he is said to have contemplated Persian and Arabic in a madrasa in Patna and after that he was sent to Benares (Kashi) to become familiar with the complexities of Sanskrit and Hindu sacred text, including the Vedas and Upanishads.


REFORMER

He ventured out from home at an early age and avoided the common acts of icon adore and a few universal acts of the time. Roy left home and went through Himalayas and Tibet while learning Persian and Arabic alongside Sanskrit.


This impacted his considering one god, as he lectured solidarity of God and made early interpretations of Vedic sacred writings into English in the later pieces of his life.

Ram Mohan Roy's effect on current Indian history was his recovery of the unadulterated and moral standards of the Vedanta school of theory as found in the Upnishads.


He lectured the solidarity of God, made early interpretations of Vedic sacred texts into English, helped to establish the Calcutta Unitarian Society and established the Brahma Samaj.

After the passing of his dad in 1803, he moved to Murshidabad where he distributed his first book, a Persian treatise with an Arabic prelude, "Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin" or "A Gift to Monotheism".


In 1814 he settled in Calcutta and in 1815 established the Atmiya Sabha. In 1828 he built up the Brahmo Samaj, "One God Society." In 1830, he had gone to England as an emissary of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar Shah II, who contributed him with the title of Raja to the court of King William


In 1830, Raja Ram Mohan Roy made a trip to the United Kingdom as a diplomat of the Mughal Empire to guarantee that Lord William Bentinck‟s Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 forbidding the act of Sati was not toppled.


He was against the act of icon love, daze confidence and strict ceremonies. Rammohan needed to change Hinduism. He kicked the bucket on 27th September 1833 in England.

Strict REFORMS


As a Hindu, Rammohan was very much aware of the feeble focuses from which Hinduism was enduring. Based on the Vedas and Upanishads, he gave another life to Indian culture.

He deciphered religion with reason and restricted symbol love and ceremony. He accepted that each religion has a similar truth. He censured the ceremony of Christianity and would not acknowledge Christ as he manifestation of God.


He needed to rearrange and to modernize the Hindu religion being affected by the western idea of reason and logical idea.


BRAHMO SAMAJ


Campaigned against Hindu traditions as sati, polygamy, kid marriage and station system.Demanded property legacy rights for ladies.


In 1828, he set up the Brahmo Sabha a development of reformist Bengali Brahmins to battle against social disasters.


He upheld between station relationships, ladies instruction, widow remarriages and so on. With his


Dynamic influence Lord William Bentick,the then Governor General of British India passed the well known Regulation XVII in1829 that arranged Sati as illicit and deserving of courts.

The Brahmo Samaj received functional strides to proliferate its strict and social thoughts. It built up different scholarly social orders and instructive organizations.


Rammohan advocated the reason for English language and western arrangement of training and upheld the move of Lord Macaulay. He began the English school, the Hindu College in 1817(presidency school) and the Vedanta College at Calcutta.


Rammohan began distributing papers and magazines for which he was known as the "Father of Indian Journalism". He altered the Bengali paper, "Sambad Kaumudi", and the Persian paper "Mirat-Ul-Akbar".


POLITICAL

With the glorification of antiquated Indian culture, the Brahmo Samaj as an organization helped in creating certainty among Indians in their very own religion.


Rammohan additionally had confidence in the opportunity of man and contradicted the racial prevalence of Europeans. Raja Rammohan Roy is called as the Father of Indian Renaissance because of his mass arousing and discerning reasoning.


Brahmo Samaj had various branches set up in removed territories like Punjab, Madras, Uttar Pradesh and so on.

 
 
 

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