🕯️ Raja Ram Mohan Roy: The Man Who Made India Modern

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a visionary reformer and thinker who had a big impact on India in the 19th century. His ideas and actions were the basis for the Indian Renaissance and the country’s later movement for independence.

🧠 Early Life & Education:

He was born in 1772 in Radhanagar, Bengal, which is now in West Bengal, India. He was very good at languages; he learned Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, English, and Latin. He also read Hindu, Islamic, and Christian texts, which helped him see the world in a more open-minded way.

⚖️ Social Reforms

Fought against social ills like sati (the practice of widows setting themselves on fire), child marriage, and the strict caste system.
Fought for women’s rights, such as the right to education and inheritance.
Got the British government to ban sati in 1829.

Jyotirao Phule

🧠 Early Life

Born in 1827 in Pune, Maharashtra, into a blood of the Mali (gardener) hall
Faced discrimination beforehand on, which acclimated his decisiveness to challenge the hall system and gregarious inequality
A brilliant mind who defied morals by continuing his English instruction despite violent reaction

✊ Champion of the saddened

Founded the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-Seekers' Society) in 1873 to clash Brahminical dominance, hall oppression, and religious exploitation
Trusted in instruction as a ordnance of liberation — especially for the Bahujans, Dalits, and women

👩‍🏫 Revolutionizing Education

Together with Savitribai, started India’s first academe for maids in 1848
Opened seminaries for Dalit children when no bone else defied
Indeed converted portion of his own home into a safe sanctum for abused and widowed women

💪 Fearless Voice Against Social villainies

Exposed the dissimulation of hall-predicated fashions and religious falseness through books like “Gulamgiri” (Slavery)
Criticized untouchability and idol idolization, and promoted rationalism and mortal quality
Supported equality of all people, anyway of hall, gender, or persuasion

👑 Rubric

Jyotirao Phule is glinted back as a settler of anti-estate and feminist study in India
Maharashtra observes ‘Phule Jayanti’ every April 11 to fete his contributions
His grim dedication lit the path for leaders like Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and multitudinous modern motions for gregarious justice

Indian Social Reformers