Raja Rammohan Roy As A Harbinger Of Indian Liberalism

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: A, Presidency College, Kolkata, course: Modern History, language: English, abstract: This paper concentrates on the contribution of Raja Rammohan Roy the nighteenth century luminary towards the developement of Indian liberalism. This essay deliberates on the magnitude `as well as the undeniable limitations of his approach towards the democratization of the Indian socio-cultural fabric. It tries to establish Rammohan neither as a zeitgeist of colonial India , nor a souvenir of the'' pre-modern'' India but a symbiotic bridge between the two.