biography
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Rammohun Roy or Raja Ram Mohan Rai
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1774–1833)
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| biography:
| Religious reformer, born in Bengal of high Brahman ancestry. He came early to question his ancestral faith, and studied Buddhism in Tibet. He published various works in Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit, with the aim of uprooting idolatry, and helped in the abolition of sati. He issued an English abridgment of the Vedanta, and published The Precepts of Jesus (1820) and pamphlets hostile both to Hinduism and to Christian Trinitarianism. In 1828 he began the Brahmo Samaj Association, and in 1830 the Emperor of Delhi bestowed on him the title of raja. |
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