Complete Biography Of “Raja Ram Mohan Roy” in Paragraph
Complete Biography Of “Raja
Ram Mohan Roy” in Paragraph
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| Raja Ram Mohan Roy |
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
India : Father of Indian Renaissance
Birth: 1772 Death: 1833
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a zealous
social reformer holding modern and progressive views. He also knew many
languages viz. English, Persian, Arabic, Latin, French and even Hebrew. He
stood firmly against all sorts of social bigotry, conservatism and superstitions
and advocated English and Western education for his countrymen. For these
views, he was even expelled from his family. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a great
scholar too. He made a wide study of different religions of the world including
Christianity and Islam. He was also a
great scholar of Bangla and translated Vedas and Upanishads into this language.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born in
1772, in a prosperous and orthodox Brahmin family at Hooghly (West Bengal). In
1830, Raja Ram Mohan Roy visited England to plead a case on behalf of the Mogul
Emperor. The Mogul Emperor honored Ram Mohan Roy with the title of ‘Raja’. In 1805, Raja Ram Mohan Roy got an employment
in the British East India Company. He retired from this service in 1815 and
thereafter settled in Calcutta devoting himself to social service.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy believed in the
fundamental unity of all religions. In 1814, he founded Atmiya Samaj’ and in
1828, the ‘Brahma Samaj’. Through these organizations he wanted to expose the
religious hypocrisies and to check the growing influence of Christianity on the
Hindu Society.
It was due to the untiring efforts,
involving considerable personal risks of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, that the then
Governor General of India, Lord William Bentinck abolished the practice of
‘Sad’ in 1829. By far, the greatest achievement of Raja Ram Mohan Roy as a
social reformer was the abolition of ‘Safi’.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy has been rightly
called the ‘Father of Indian Renaissance’ or the ‘Father of Indian
Nationalism’. He died on 27th September 1833, in England.
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