Ram Mohan Roy argues from the Upanishads for one God without image, founds the Brahmo Samaj, and campaigns against sati until its abolition in 1829; he opens the age of Hindu reform, in which India's traditions answer print, missions, and empire with their own scriptures.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 1772–1833 (exact)
- Era
- Colonial; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Calcutta; today Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- Ram Mohan Roy
- Key texts
- The Precepts of Jesus (1820)
Primary Sources
- Ram Mohan Roy, The Precepts of Jesus
Secondary Sources
- Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India (Cambridge, 1989)
- King, Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the Mystic East (Routledge, 1999)
Provenance: HIST-0325; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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