'Luminaries of Bengal' Series | Ep 1 | Rajarshi Ram Mohan Roy

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Luminaries of Bengal Series: Their contribution to building modern Bharat. Organized by SangamTalks & Bangla Abar
Bengal became the center of action after the demise of the Mughal dynasty in Delhi and the Sultanate in Bengal after the arrival of the Europeans, especially the British.
Bengal became the birthplace of many great luminaries whose contributions are immense in getting independence from Britain and in Bharat's spiritual, cultural, and scientific development and progress.
This webinar series sheds light on these luminaries from a modern perspective by scholars and experts from around the world.
The first episode of this webinar series is dedicated to Rajarshi Ram Mohan Roy is Bharat's most forgotten and misunderstood great luminary.
He is the first person from Bharat, recognized as a Statesman outside of India and the Renaissance Man and Father of Modern India. Many people don’t know many facts about him.
This session will illuminate his life and contribution towards the birth of a new India after centuries of foreign occupation and oppression.
Panel of Speakers:
Prof Bruce Carlisle Robertson is a Lecturer with the Master of Liberal Arts Division at Johns Hopkins University, USA & is the author of books such as Raja Rammohan Ray - the Father Of Modern India.
Prof Amiya Prosad Sen is a historian with an interest in the intellectual and cultural history of modern India. Currently he is Sivadasani Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford. He was previously the Heinrich Zimmer Chair at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University.
He has served as Professor of Modern Indian History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has been Agatha Harrison Fellow to the University of Oxford[4] and Visiting Fellow to the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla,[5] and the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi. During 2007-08, he was Tagore professor at Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketan.
He is the author of multiple books, one of them being 'Rammohun Roy. A Critical Biography'.
Smita Mukerji was born in a probashi Bengali family based mostly in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, and daughter of a defence officer, She has from the earliest years soaked in the cultures and flavours of different regions of India. This imbibed in her a sense of oneness and a deep attachment and reverence for all the constituent elements of India, in particular its history. She went on to study history in university and though she got sidetracked to other fields professionally, history has been her abiding love. By occupation, she is a management professional and a language specialist. She is a mother to two wonderful young adults who share with her the passion for history and a deep love of the motherland.
Her writings can be read at hritambhara.com/
Moderator:
Mr. Chandan Bandopadhyay studied Business Management & computer science from one of the most prestigious universities in Boston, USA.
Formerly:
Engineer, Lockheed Martin (USA)
Houghton Mifflin - Harcourt (USA), oldest & prestigious publishing media house in USA.
CEO of Media house in Mumbai, producing TV programs for India & abroad.
CEO for Sahara Samay News Network
Apart from the above, he ran his business operations by establishing offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Kolkata, Pune, Bali, Addis Ababa, Boston, Moscow, Bamako, Conakry, etc.
Currently, he is working on Reforestation, Digital Education, Women & Child Nutrition, Poverty Eradication &
Sustainable Development Projects in various parts in the world (Primarily in West Africa).
He has provided leadership to many global events involving renowned personalities such as Honorable Mr. APJ Kalam, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Sri Narendra Modi at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts to commemorate India’s 50th anniversary, various US Senators, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Ms. Goldie Hawn, Dr. David Frawley, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Dayananda Saraswati & others.
He has organized more than 100 conferences & seminars on Indian Culture & Heritage. A key organizer to Global Vision 2000 Youth Conference in 1993 in Washington DC to commemorate Swami Vivekananda's centenary year celebration to his Chicago Address. He was also a key organizer to the first-ever Global Dharma Conference in 2003 in America.
He has been appointed as the Chairman of the most prestigious Indian Chambers of Commerce - Indian American International Chambers of Commerce for West Africa Region. He is also the Africa head of Global Indians for Bharat Vikas (www.gibv.org).
He has also worked with Students’ Community in North America for over a decade doing events for youth & empowerment & leadership.
He is a researcher on Indian History, especially on Bengal Renaissance specializing on Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda & Sri Aurobindo.

[@Vyom4676]

Great talk,many wrong generalisations were made but a great tribute to this huge stalwart who was and always and will be the first "mahatma" unlike mk gandhi.😂🙏

[@ramrave2913]

what is this? He was british implant.....why he is buried in england?

[@MrAnimitra]

Really!! Had there not been Raja, who would have saved you from being converted to Christianity.. English as a language and culture had been the private asset of Missionaries altogether.. Now, if you prefer to be a Christian to learn English it's your choice but I am indebted to Roy for rendering me an opportunity to learn, read and write English while retaining my own Dharma

[@ramrave2913]

@@MrAnimitra abe answer my question, why he is buried in england? not creamted in india...

[@cbando2002]

​@@ramrave2913Kid, In england back in those days cremation was not allowed. Around 1870s cremation became legal. That is why. His friend built a hindu mandir on top of his samadhi. Please read the following on his last day: Acknowledgment by who's who about The Most Inspiring Son of Mother India sribandyo.blogspot.com/2023/04/celebrating-250-th-birth-anniversary-of_66.html

[@muditgandherva3148]

He was a British staunch .

[@Vyom4676]

No he was not,and also he saw british in comparison to the muslim rulers,so is it really surprising that he praised them.Also he had friends who were nominal christians but good people ( eg;digby). So the statement above is wrong.

[@muditgandherva3148]

​@@Vyom4676have a nice day

[@A_PROUD_INDIAN810]

​@@Vyom4676lol

[@MrAnimitra]

and thanks to him, you can engage in English or else servitude at Nawab's court would have been the sole destiny of yours..

[@Vyom4676]

@@MrAnimitra is it addressing me sir ?

[@A_PROUD_INDIAN810]

Its sad and shameful that a platform like sangam giving the chance to talk about an anglicised converted christian who hated the sanatan dharma and wanted to end it and even had immense hatred for the vedas and sanskrit too

[@srikantmookerjee1698]

Requesting both Sangam and KZbin to bar this person for the vitriolic propaganda released against an icon of Hindu Renaissance.

[@VitthalGucci]

It's a shame , when people take away nothing from these discussions, instead preferring to cultivate unevaluated ideas that breed hatred , divisiveness and prejudice.

[@A_PROUD_INDIAN810]

@@VitthalGucci why don't you read the books that Ramu kaka wrote,it would give an idea to you that Ramu himself bred the divisive idea of Hinduism which he tried to change into a monotheistic religion.But I have an idea that you are too intellectually challenged to understand that.

[@the_anuragguha]

Some right wing amateur historian on twitter defaming Raja Ram Mohan Roy...bcz they studied history from Whatsapp University and also when it comes history they have zero academic credential

[@sreyanshuchaterjee3962]

oh really, tell me wise fart, why did he resort to praise monotheistic thought, coming short of abrahamizing the Hindu identity. You cant be throwing excess opium wealth at a problem and force an outcome to claim supremacy. What was the ultimate objective?

[@preshitx]

They are quoting primary sources which whether they found on whatsapp or google will remain primary sources and thus if you have anything against their narrative , provide counters rather than crying here.

[@sreyanshuchaterjee3962]

@@preshitx This is the trope of pseudo marxists now. You can do better. If you feel you have some knowledge to share, respond to my statement. If you are from bengal, such practises were among the Kulin Brahmins only. This miniscule bad practise was shown as all hindus on the same principle as you being a eater of gowmutra.

[@Vyom4676]

Again,ad hominem is a logical fallacy,quote those whatsapp historians and debunk those with proper references.

[@Vyom4676]

And also for those who say,he was not against sanskrit and teaching of darshanas,because he established vedanta college there 2 doubts which i need clarified. 1.where is it's current location,we have the erstwhile hindu college(presidency) and sanskrit college too so kindly provide the location of that institution. 2.by name it is clear that he is going to teach possibly vedanta,but will it be a traditional toll way ? Given his outlook,many so called scholars ? also came out of brahmo samaj who used to write works on vedanta so called,which were just repeating the same points which he had said in his translations and digests( eg.chandrashekhar basu,debendranath tagore etc.)when one reads their work it is very clear that they don't know(as they themselves say)traditional concepts of nyaya,vedanta.So how is this even a valid point,to prove that no he was not against traditional learning when his own successors( an exception sitanath dutta)have been non traditionalists.

[@MrLee-gj2jz]

How and why the hell is this RRR guy being featured on Sangam Talks? - Meenakshi Jain has already debunked the Sati myth. RRR generalised the practice being done by his own sect to all Hindus, shaming Hindusism. That stigma is yet to be erased. - RRR propagated Brahmo Samaj as a total new religion. In the 1893 World parliament of Religions, the Brahmos declared themselves as separate from Hinduism. - The Brahmo Samaj created havoc in Punjab when Brahmo Bongs moved in after the British annexation of Punjab; this directly led to Punjabi Hindus embracing Arya Samaj as a counter and is responsible for the Hindu-Sikh split that is the direct precursor to Khalistani demands - RRR worked for William Carey, a British baptist who sole purpose in India was conversion - RRR was a supporter of the British colonial project in India - RRR campaigned against Sanskrit education in India and wanted to impose English The list goes on and on.

[@srikantmookerjee1698]

whatsapp university education.

[@Vyom4676]

@@srikantmookerjee1698 again,srikanta you are coming out as an idiot by commiting argumentum ad hominem and also non sequitor.I mean what kind of response is this ,so lazy. Try hard to defend him and stop featuring adya sankara image with such bullshit and 3rd rated response. What he has said some of them are correct but in wrong perspective so try being polite like how rammohan used to behave.

[@MrLee-gj2jz]

@@srikantmookerjee1698 Read the below references and get educated properly. - Jain M (2016), Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse, Aryan Books International - Nash, J. V. (1933) "India at the World's Parliament of Religions.," The Open Court: Vol. 1933 : Iss. 4 , Article 1 - Jones, K. W. (1973). Ham Hindu Nahin: Arya-Sikh Relations, 1877-1905. The Journal of Asian Studies, 32(3), 457-475 - Sastri S (1912), History of the Brahmo Samaj : Volume I: Ram Mohun Roy - Adi Brahmo Samaj - The Brahmo Samaj of India, Brahmo Mission press - Mahajan VD (1975), Leaders of the Nationalist Movement, Sterling Publishers - JC Ghose, (1901), The English Works of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Calcutta S. Roy And feel free to also forward to your other Brahmo-ron friends on Whatsapp.

[@A_PROUD_INDIAN810]

@@srikantmookerjee1698 that's what you bengalis think....ram mohan was blot on bengal bloody anglicised cretin

[@VitthalGucci]

Aren't you lucky that you can publicly thrash the 'RRR guy' in despicable English. 😮 The joys of reform and progress.😢 The lack of the Sanatan value of inquiry, evaluating and evolving is however rarely addressed. Understandably , demonising is easy and evaluating is an arduous task,

[@parjanyashukla176]

If Bengalis are really proud of their contribution, the grave of Ram Mohan Roy should be exhumed and cremated on the banks of the Ganga. It is easy to keep on talking incessantly, but doing anything in practical life requires courage. It is really a shame that North Western regions like Punjab and Rajasthan faced waves after waves of invasions but still have their culture by and large intact, while Bengalis were so easily captured by the Turks and the British, as if ready to embrace any idiot. How exactly did East Bengal became Muslim majority when Turkic attacks actually happened from the North West?

[@MrAnimitra]

That means you're a mere Joe public daring to speak on Bengal without knowing a tint of the region.. Neither you know of Islamist proselytization here nor of the defiance against it. For you in particular, the devastating riot at Jamalpur, Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) in 1907 had brought "Anushilan Samiti" to public sphere in 1907..and that was the legacy of a millennium-old struggle.. Now, why East Bengal in spite of spite of having several Hindu-majority areas went to Pakistan.. It's due to betrayal of (then) Delhi leadership. Now, go through documents of partition of India in 1947 and educate all... including you and other ignorant souls..

[@ramrave2913]

@@MrAnimitra abe answer this, why west begal has so many muslims remained?

[@parjanyashukla176]

​@@MrAnimitra"Daring" to speak on Bengal? 😮 We are not talking about late British era here, I am asking you to just solve this puzzle for me : Islamic attacks happened from Central Asia via the Punjab route. Then how come Rajasthan, UP, Bihar never became Muslim majority but Bengal in the far Eastern corner was a Muslim majority by 1947? And how come Firangis lived in Calcutta for so long (till 1911), even 10,000 Bengalis with just swords could have finished them off.

[@srikantmookerjee1698]

@@parjanyashukla176 different issues. :)

[@srikantmookerjee1698]

@@ramrave2913- answer this why is Peshwar (Purushpur before) non Hindu now? brain mein logic dalo yaar