Contribution of Raja Ram Mohan Roy


 
 
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Contribution of Raja Ram Mohan Roy

Caste and social reform: Rammohun Roy translated an old Buddhist text that was critical of caste. In Bombay, the Paramhans mandali was founded in 1840 to work for the abolition of caste. There were also others who questioned the injustices of the caste social order. Christian missionaries began setting up schools for tribal groups and ‘lower”- caste children. These children were thus equipped with some resources to make their way into a changing world. At the same time, the poor began leaving their villages to look for jobs that were opening up in the cities. There was work in the factories that were coming up, and jobs in municipalities. Some also went to work in plantations in Assam, Mauritius, Trinidad and Indonesia. Work in the new locations was often very hard. But the poor, the people from low castes, saw this as an opportunity to get away from the oppressive hold that upper-caste landowners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered. The father of B.R. Ambedkar, the leader of the Dalit movement, taught at an army school.

 
 


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