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22/05/22 10:09 AM IST

250th Birth Anniversary of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

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  • Under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM), the Ministry of Culture is commemorating the 250th Birth Anniversary of Shri Raja Ram Mohan Roy from 22nd May 2022 to 22nd May 2023. 
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on 22 May 1772 in an orthodox Brahman family at Radhanagar in Bengal.
  • Ram Mohan Roy’s early education included the study of Persian and Arabic at Patna where he read the Quran, the works of Sufi mystic poets and the Arabic translation of the works of Plato and Aristotle. In Benaras, he studied Sanskrit and read Vedas and Upnishads.
  • Returning to his village, at the age of sixteen, he wrote a rational critique of Hindu idol worship.
  • From 1803 to 1814, he worked for East India Company as the personal diwan first of Woodforde and then of Digby.
Ideology 
  • Ram Mohan Roy was greatly influenced by western modern thought and stressed on rationalism and modern scientific approach.
  • Ram Mohan Roy’s immediate problematique was the religious and social degeneration of his native Bengal.
  • He believed that religious orthodoxies have become causes of injury and detrimental to social life and sources of trouble and bewilderment to the people, instead of tending to the amelioration of the condition of society.
  • Raja Ram Mohan Roy concluded that religious reform is both social reform and political modernisation.
  • Ram Mohan believed that each sinner must make restitution for his sins and it is to be done through self-purification and repentance and not through sacrifices and rituals.
Source-PIB 

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