His writings also sparked interest among British and American Unitarians. He promoted a rational, ethical, non-authoritarian, this-worldly, and social-reform Hinduism. He established a number of schools to popularize a modern system (effectively replacing Sanskrit based education with English based education) of education in India. He sought to integrate Western culture with the best features of his own country's traditions. He successfully campaigned against sati, the practice of burning widows.
The Brahma Samaj played a major role in reforming and modernizing the Indian society. He preached the unity of God, made early translations of Vedic scriptures into English, co-founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society and founded the Brahma Samaj. Ram Mohan Roy's impact on modern Indian history was his revival of the pure and ethical principles of the Vedanta school of philosophy as found in the Upanishads. The Persian and Arabic studies influenced his thinking about One God more than studies of European deism, which he didn't know at least while writing his first scriptures because at that stage he couldn't speak or understand English. However, it is believed that he was sent to Patna when he was nine years old and two years later he went to Benares." The dates of his time in both these places are uncertain. Later he is said to have studied Persian and Arabic in a madrasa in Patna and after that he was sent to Benares to learn the intricacies of Sanskrit and Hindu scripture, including the Vedas and Upanishads.
One view is that "Ram Mohan started his formal education in the village pathshala where he learned Bengali and some Sanskrit and Persian. The nature and content of Ram Mohan Roy's early education is disputed. He had two sons, Radhaprasad in 1800, and Ramaprasad in 1812 with his second wife, who died in 1824. Torn between these two parental ideals from early childhood, Ram Mohan vacillated between the two for the rest of his life. One parent prepared him for the occupation of a scholar, the Shastri, while the other secured for him all the worldly advantages needed to launch a career in the laukik or worldly sphere of public administration. He was a great scholar of Sanskrit, Persian and English languages and also knew Arabic, Latin and Greek. His father, Ramkanta, was a Vaishnavite, while his mother, Tarini Devi, was from a Shaivite family. Kulinism was a synonym for polygamy and the dowry system, both of which Rammohan campaigned against. Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the six families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century – those from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for living off dowries by marrying several women. His great grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin. Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency.
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