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Q65 (CDS-I/2015) History & Culture › Modern India (Pre-1857) › Socio-religious reform movements Answer Verified

Which of the following statements about the social reformer, Raja Rammohun Roy, is false ?

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Statement 1 is false because Raja Rammohun Roy did not belong to a gentry class whose power was diminished by the Permanent Settlement; rather, he was born into an orthodox Brahmin family that had long served the Mughal rulers. His family actually benefited from the new land revenue systems, and Roy himself was a wealthy zamindar and moneylender. Statement 2 is true as he explored Vedantic Monism and Christian Unitarianism to promote monotheism [1]. Statement 3 is true; he translated the Vedas and five Upanishads into Bengali to prove that ancient texts supported monotheism [1]. Statement 4 is also true; his first organization was the Atmiya Sabha (Society of Friends), established in Calcutta in 1815 (or late 1814) to propagate monotheistic ideals and campaign against social evils [1].

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  1. [1] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 9: A General Survey of Socio-Cultural Reform Movements > Socio-Cultural Reform Movements and their Leaders > p. 206
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