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Known as the "Maker of Modern India", the philanthropist and social reformer Rammohun Roy achieved international fame during his visit to Britain as India's ambassador in the 1830s.
In 1831, political philospher Jeremy Bentham proposed that the Brahman Rammohun Roy should stand for parliament, a radical suggestion some 60 years before the first election of a South Asian representative in parliament and at a time of national riots and emancipation campaigns for Catholics and Jews.
Bentham's suggestion and Rammohun's earnest consideration of it indicate his status in reform circles at this crucial moment in British political history, while raising intriguing questions regarding Rammohun's religious identity.
Dr. Lynn Zastoupil is the J.J. McComb Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee (USA). He holds a Ph.D degree from the University of Minnesota and is historian of the British empire, with a special interest in British India in the nineteenth century. He has authored two books, John Stuart Mill and India (1994) and Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain (2010). His other publications include various scholarly articles and two co-edited volumes: J.S. Mill's Encounter with India (1999 co-edited with Douglas Peers and Martin Moir), and The Great Indian Education Debate (1999, co-edited with Martin Moir). Dr Zastoupil is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Painting: Henry Perronet Briggs, Rajah Rammohun Roy, 1832 With thanks to "Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives"
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