INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, Raja Rammohan Roy established Hindu College at Calcutta in 1817.

Detailed explanation-2: -MG Ranade is regarded as the ‘Modern rishi’.

Detailed explanation-3: -David Hare, an associate of Ram Mohan Roy took keen interest in starting this college. He had come from Scotland to sell watches in Calcutta, but later made the spread of modern education in Bengal his life’s mission.

Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1828 Roy formed the Brahmo Samaj (Society of Brahma), a Hindu reformist sect that utilized Unitarian and other liberal Christian elements in its beliefs. The Brahmo Samaj was to play an important part, later in the century, as a Hindu movement of reform.