Question
What do you know about Raja Rammohun Roy's movement for social reform?

Answer

  • His movement at reforming the society, religion and the status of women could be taken as the starting point of 19th century social reform in Bengal.
  • A decade before establishing Brahmo Samaj in 1828, he undertook the campaign against Sati which was the first women's issue to receive public attention.
  • Roy's ideas presented a mix of western rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality.
  • He, thus, attacked the practice of Sati on the basis of both appeals to humanitarian and natural rights doctrines as well as Hindu Shastras.

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