Enlightenment · South Asia · Culture
1770
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Born
1770
In a Brahmin family of Bengal, a son was born who would grow to condemn sati, translate the Upanishads, argue with Christian missionaries in Sanskrit and Persian, found the Brahmo Samaj, and become the first Indian social reformer to think in both Eastern and Western languages at once. He would die in Bristol in 1833.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.