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RAJA RAMMOHAN ROY IS CONSIDERED AS ' FIRST MODERN MAN OF INDIA'.WHY?

a. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was rightly regarded as the first great leader of modern India who sought to reform the country of its degenerative practices.

b. He was pained by corrupt and stagnant practices of caste system, superstitions and wanted people of the country to develop scientific temper and approach.

c. He sought to reform Hindu religion by condemning caste rigidities, idol worship and other rituals.

d.In 1828, he founded Barhmo Samaj for the purpose of developing modern outlook in the people, to purify Hinduism and to preach belief in one god.

e. He was a strong champion of women's rights, he stood for equality and led a struggle against Sati. He got a law passed banning sati.

f. Raja Ram Mohan Roy aimed at spreading modern education as it promoted modern ideas and thinking which he strongly believed would reform the Indian socuety.He founded the famous Hindu college, vedanta college to encourage scientific,  thinking among the people .

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Rammohan roy is the first modern man of India. I believe that he has first unleashed the way to think and analyze the religion. Society and any other socio cultural aspects in a true way of self manifestation in the light of universal. He even taught the principles of universal cooperation lines of cultural understanding. As a whole he has first opened and paved the way of cultivating and upgrading the humanism by progressive intellectual thoughts and actions infront of the India.

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it is so cuase he was the frist Indian to figth against the inhuman practise like sati.

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raja ram mohan roy was responsible for the spread of liberal ideas of the west provided further stimulus for the emergence of reform movements. These movements introduced important changes in social and religious life of the people of India. He studied all types of holy books , and did not believed in superstitions. He was a champion of women's rights and attacked polygamy. He was in favour of modern education and had modern thoughts. Thus, he is the modern man of India.

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