What reforms did Raja Ram Mohan Roy insist on?
Religious
Solution
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born in Bengal. He translated Sanskrit Upanishads into Bengali. In 1828, he founded ‘Brahmo Samaj’ and proclaimed that ‘God is one and there is no need to worship idols to propitiate him'. Organizations like ‘Manavdharm Sabha’, ‘Paramhamsa Sabha’ and ‘Dnyanprasar Sabha’ were inspired by his work.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s first published work Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhiddin (a gift to deists) published in 1803 exposed irrational religious beliefs.
He opposed idolatry, and corrupt practices of the Hindus as the belief in revelations, prophets, miracles, etc.
He was against the perceived polytheism of Hinduism. He advocated monotheism as given in the scriptures.
In 1814, he founded Atmiya Sabha in Calcutta to campaign against idolatry, caste rigidities, meaningless rituals, and other social ills.
He criticized the ritualism of Christianity and rejected Christ as the incarnation of God. In Precepts of Jesus (1820), he tried to separate the moral and philosophical message of the New Testament, which he praised, from its miracle stories.
