Author: Om Prakash
Publisher: Anmol Publications
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8126115157
Description
Raja Rammohun Roy as a man had a unique personality combining together his kindness and nobility, catholicity, decency and decorum, sense of prestige, sympathy for the distressed, conviction, simplicity and fearlessness.
Amidst plenty of literature on the theme, this book gives an authoritative account of Rammohun Roy in historical perspective.
Contents
Sati-Efforts for its Abolition
Indigo Trade and Land-Ownership
Champion of Free Press
On Bengali Prose
As Ambassador of emperor of Delhi
Voyage to Europe
Views on Revenue system
Assessment on Judicial System
Select Committees and the reform Bill
Rammohun as a Man
Scholar, Humanist and Educationist
Political and Economic thought of Rammohan Roy
A Social and Religious Ideology
Views of Indian Tradition, etc