INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -While in Murshidabad, in 1804 Raja Ram Mohan Roy wrote Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhidin (A Gift to Monotheists) in Persian with an introduction in Arabic. Bengali had not yet become the language of intellectual discourse.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ram Mohan was attracted to Islamic monotheism and believed that monotheism supported one universal model for humanity. He said that monotheism is also the fundamental message of Vedanta. His idea of a single, unitarian god was a corrective to the polytheism of orthodox Hinduism and to Christian trinitarianism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s first published work Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhiddin (a gift to deists) published in 1803 exposed irrational religious beliefs and corrupt practices of the Hindus as the belief in revelations, prophets, miracles etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. He played a major role in abolishing the role of Sati. Raja Rammohan Roy was a great scholar and an independent thinker. He advocated the study of English, Science, Western Medicine and Technology.