Social Contributions of Raja Rammohan Roy : Present Perspective

Authors: Aisharya De

Pages: 59-63

Abstract:

In the national life of present day India, the life and work of Raja Rammohan Roy are still of great importance. His life and thoughts are still significant today for moving and influencing the succeeding generations in India. Even today, corruption, evils and superstitions still exist in every sphere of Indian life. Sectarian bias, conflicts among different sects, polytheism, and image worship are still prevalent in the society. Those are creating disrespect between man to man and are degrading the base of the society day by day. Direction and values are lost. There is a need of regeneration and spiritual upliftment. For this there is a need to follow the ideals and ideas of Raja Rammohan Roy. Raja Rammohan Roy neutralized and synthesized the conservative circles of Hindu society and preached monotheism and he spread that message through his Brahmo Samaj movement. That message needs to be propagated in the present society. Following his philosophy, the deep routed cause of social degradation will have to be understood and accordingly measures will have to be taken. Today, with the emergence of the concepts like individual liberty, women emancipation, free expression of opinions, modernism, one should not forget that all those ideas have already championed many years ago through Raja Rammohan Roy’s writings.