Published: 27th May, 2022
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Union Culture Ministry will commemorate the 250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy till 22nd of May next year under the aegis of 'AzadiKaAmritMahotsav'.
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About Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian reformer who worked in religion, society, and education.
- He was born May 22, 1772, in Radhanagar, Bengal.
- He is well-known as the "Father of Modern India" or the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance".
- In 1828, he was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha, which served as the forerunner of the BrahmoSamaj, a social and religious reform movement.
- He campaigned against Hindu traditions such as Sati, polygamy, child marriage, and the caste system.
- He insisted that women have the right to inherit property.
- In 1817, he established the Hindu College in Calcutta with David Hare.
- In 1830, Ram Mohan Roy came to the United Kingdom as a Mughal Empire diplomat to guarantee that Lord William Bentinck's Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, which prohibited the practice of Sati, was not reversed.
- His most popular periodical was SambadKaumudi.
- It addressed issues such as press freedom, the induction of Indians into high-ranking positions, and the separation of the executive and judiciary.
- Akbar II, the Mughal emperor, gave him the title of Raja.
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