HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
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What did Raja Ram Mohan Roy actively seek reforms in?
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Promoting intercaste marriages
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Teaching the Vedas in schools
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Ending the practice of Sati
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Building more temples
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He started a campaign for the abolition of ‘Sati System’ in which wife of the dead burned herself in the funeral pyre of her husband. He also condemned polygamy, denounced casteism, advocated the right of Hindu widows to remarry etc.
Detailed explanation-2: -Raja Ram Mohan Roy adopted the strategy of creating public awareness and also bringing about government legislation to eradicate social evils that plagued the society then.
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