{"id":2817,"date":"2013-08-05T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2013-08-05T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:00:49","slug":"raja-ram-mohan-roy-book-review-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%9c%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%ae-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%b9%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%b0%e0%a5%89%e0%a4%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Raja Ram Mohan Roy :Book Review : \u0930\u093e\u091c\u093e\u0930\u093e\u092e \u092e\u094b\u0939\u0928 \u0930\u0949\u092f"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sirlendu Mukherjee , DeLhi University , Pioneer Review AT LINK BELOW
\nhttp:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/book-reviews\/roys-british-connections.html<\/p>\n

Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain<\/p>\n

Author: Lynn Zastoupil<\/p>\n

Publisher: Palgrave, Rs 995<\/p>\n

Much has been written on the \u2018prophet\u2019 of modern India (irrespective of how you define modernisation), yet for a multi-faceted personality and a polymath like Rammohun Roy, so much had remained unknown. Lynn Zastoupil, a professor of History, at Rhodes College, USA, deals extensively and brilliantly with those less familiar aspects and shows through painstaking research how Roy\u2019s \u201cpassions intersected with the projects of reformers and humanitarians in Britain\u201d. He tells us that \u201crational religion, liberty of the press, constitutional reform, free trade, modern education, the condition of women, and suppression of inhumane practices are causes that Rammohun shared with many Britons\u201d. Zastoupil reminds us that such factors were a preparation for the Victorian Britain or the Age of Reform. Even the masterly works of Asa Briggs (1959), Dorothy Marshall (1962) and Kitson Clark (1962) miss many such strands. In \u2018Recovering Roy\u2019s significance for this modernisation project\u2019, he suggests that \u201cRammohun\u2019s celebrity is a mirror in which the making of Victorian Britain is reflected\u201d.<\/p>\n

After the \u201cturbaned Bengali Brahmin\u201d arrived in Liverpool on April 8, 1831, along with his companions and his cows, his \u201csocial calendar was filled\u201d through \u201cmorning, noon and night\u201d. Roy was already a well-known name in Britain. The author examines the contribution of Unitarians in the making of modern Britain through their campaign for liberty of conscience, freedom of press, civil rights, minority rights, etc. Zastoupil reiterates that Roy\u2019s adoption of the Unitarian identity was always a \u201cfluid entity\u201d, and never a rejection of \u201crational Hinduism\u201d \u2014 more a means to enter the \u201cworld of respected middle-class reformers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Despite evangelicalism, Britain had space for radical dissent and it provided a niche for Roy. Zastoupil shows how \u201cAbolitionism\u201d, the campaign against slave trade\/slavery became a model for the reformers and feminists in Britain and provided \u201canother clue to Roy\u2019s transnational celebrity\u201d. The campaign against Sati in India \u201cparallels the anti-slavery campaigns in key respects\u201d in Britain, and thus helped \u201cforge the idea that Roy was a partner in the moral crusades and spirit of reform sweeping through early 19th century Britain.<\/p>\n

Zastoupil suggests that Roy\u2019s emergence as a transnational celebrity was helped by free press and free trade activists. Roy used to send many of his writings and petitions to important people in England, including parliamentarians like Thomas Denman (of the Luddites defence fame) and Col James Young, who voiced his ideas in Parliament; Douglas Kinnaird helped spread his views outside. Both the Whigs and the Radicals saw in Roy \u201cthe principle of liberty vindicated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Robert Rickards, a parliamentarian and commentator on India, held that liberal institutions were the antidote to centuries of Muslim oppression and opined that Roy\u2019s writings on Christian and Hindu religious themes would \u201cimmortalise\u201d his name forever. Roy\u2019s access to Cabinet ministers made Prasanna Kumar Tagore think that Roy was India\u2019s unofficial member of Parliament!<\/p>\n

Zastoupil shows how the \u201cglobal circulation of texts and individuals made it possible for Roy to form intellectual and political alliances in Europe and North America\u201d, to pursue his varied objectives. Moreover, \u201che wielded the power of satire to bring the coloniser down to the level of the colonised; in Britain, it seems he employed the black arts of ultraradical journalism against the colonial establishment\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Bentham suggested that Roy, \u201cas a representative of British India, a half-caste, and a negro,\u201d should go to Parliament! However, the \u201cOath\u201d to Christianity factor prevented him from seeking it. Roy, despite his sympathy and understanding of various strands of belief-systems, had remained a Hindu till the end. One may, however, wonder what Zastoupil really means (like some others before) in saying that Tuhfat-ul-Muwahiddin was influenced by \u201cIslamic rationalism\u201d. Tuhfat… was, in fact, a critic of prophetic religions and much more. Certainly, Roy would have faced a fatwa, earned the wrath of \u2018progressive\u2019 historians and would have been blacklisted by the \u2018secular\u2019 establishment, if he had written this in post-1947 India!<\/p>\n

Zastoupil asserts that Roy belonged to \u201cthe story of modern Britain\u201d as he was \u201clionised\u201d by various \u201cgroups and individuals\u201d who helped usher in the Victorian Age. A book like this is rarely produced and looks grand with half-a-dozen photographs of this unique personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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