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Hullmandel, C.

Raja Ram Roy

Lithograph | RCIN 813038

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    A lithograph after a portrait of Raja Ram Mohan Roy: turned to the left, wearing a wide turban, a cloak, and strings of beads.

    Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833) was a Hindu religious and social reformer who advocated monotheism and denounced the caste system, as well as religious rituals such as sati, by which a widow sacrificed herself on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. Roy was a prolific writer and linguist whose liberal views, published in English and Bengali, sparked debate amongst orthodox Hindus. In 1828 he founded the Brahmo Samaj, a radical Hindu reformist movement that emphasized the importance of the Vedas (the ancient Hindu texts), and embraced Unitarian beliefs. In 1830 he travelled to England as ambassador of the titular Mughal emperor Akbar II to persuade the directors of the East India Company to increase the emperor's pension. He visited Liverpool and Manchester, met working people as well as the philosophers James Mill and Jeremy Bentham whose ideas he had long admired. While staying at Bristol, he contracted meningitis and died on 27 September, 1833. 

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