What exactly was Raja Rammohun Roy’s role vis-à-vis the British administration’s introduction of an English education system in early 19th century colonial India, replacing the older system that consisted of a traditional Sanskrit pedagogy? Based on the verbal admissions made by well-known products of the liberal system of English education and the historiographical analysis of early 19th-century Indian society by …
The current year marks the quarter-millennial anniversary of the birth of Raja Rammohun Roy. In order to get the drift of public opinion on Raja Rammohun Roy’s life and works, when one surveys the present-day mainstream media, as well as the supposedly more democratic social media platforms, one feels compelled to take statements like “already much has been said about …
Our past can inform our choices in the future. So besotted was Bentham with Roy that he addressed the latter as “intensely admired and dearly beloved collaborator in the service of mankind!” HIS FAME Bentham’s first acquaintance with Roy was through one of his books of which he wrote, “But for the name of a Hindoo, I should have ascribed …
