WBBSE CLASS 7th Raja Rammohan Roy || Biography Writing

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WBBSE CLASS 7th Raja Rammohan Roy || Biography on Raja Rammohan Roy

Biography Writing

Write a Biography on Raja Rammohan Roy.

Raja Rammohan Roy

i. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great socio-religious reformer.

ii. He is known as the “Father of Indian Renaissance”.

iii. He was born on 22nd May 1772 in the village Radhanagar, Hooghly, West Bengal.

iv. His father’s name was Ramakanto Roy and his mother’s name was Tarini.

v. Rammohan Roy took his higher education in Patna, India.

vi. He had learnt several languages such as Bangla, Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit only by the age of fifteen.

vii. He was against idol worship. He went to Varanasi and studied the Vedas, the Upanishads and Hindu philosophy deeply.

viii. Raja Rammohan Roy was the founder of ‘Bramha Samaj’. He is known as the ‘Maker of Modern India’.

ix. He played a major role in abolishing the role of Sati and established the ‘Hindu College’ in 1817, with the help of David Hare.

x. He was given the title ‘Raja’ by the Mughal Emperor Akbar Shah II.

xi. He died on 27th September, 1833.

xi. (He passed away at Bristol in England on 27th September in 1833 and we say, "The sun of the East went on setting in the West."

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