Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Swami Dayanand Saraswati sheet3-mark answer frameExplain any three contributions of Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Indian society.
How to lay out the answer. Follow the frame, then write it in your own words.
- 1 · Open with who he was. Raja Ram Mohan Roy of Bengal blended Indian and western thought to reform society.
- 2 · Fight against sati. He showed that sati had no religious sanction, and Bentinck banned it in 1829.
- 3 · Brahmo Samaj, 1828. It taught one God and opposed idol worship, empty rituals and child marriage.
- 4 · Modern education. He ran an English school in Calcutta, opened a Vedanta College (1825) and helped found the Hindu College.
- 5 · Close in one line. So he is remembered as a pioneer of social reform in modern India.
Scoring tip: Three clear points with the years 1828 and 1829 are enough. Do not tell his whole life story.
