Question

In 1829, Rammohan Roy founded a new religious society known as the _______ Sabha which later on came to be known as the Brahmo Samaj. 
1.  Atmiya
2.  Arya
3.  Siddhi 
4.  Jagriti

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 :  Atmiya

The correct answer is Atmiya.

• In 1829, Rammohan Roy founded a new religious society known as the Atmiya Sabha which later on came to be known as the Brahmo Samaj. 
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded Brahmo Sabha in 1828, which was later renamed Brahmo Samaj.
• Its chief aim was the worship of the eternal God. It was against priesthood, rituals, and sacrifices.
• It focused on prayers, meditation, and reading of the scriptures. It believed in the unity of all religions.
• It was the forerunner of all social, religious, and political movements of modern India. It split into two in 1866, namely Brahmo Samaj of India led by Keshub Chandra Sen, and Adi Brahmo Samaj led by Debendranath Tagore.

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy was born on 22 May 1772 in an orthodox Brahman family at Radhanagar in Bengal.
• From 1803 to 1814, he worked for East India Company as the personal diwan first of Woodforde and then of Digby.
• In 1814, he resigned from his job and moved to Calcutta in order to devote his life to religious, social and political reforms.
• In November 1930, he sailed for England to be present there to counteract the possible nullification of the Act banning Sati.
• Ram Mohan Roy was given the title of Raja by the titular Mughal Emperor of Delhi, Akbar II whose grievances the former was to present before the British king.

• Roy did much to disseminate the benefits of modern education to his countrymen. He supported David Hare’s efforts to find the Hindu College in 1817, while Roy’s English school taught mechanics and Voltaire’s philosophy.
• In 1825, he established Vedanta college where courses in both Indian learning and Western social and physical sciences were offered.
• In 1819, Ram Mohan found three journals are:
  • The Brahmanical Magazine (1821).
  • The Bengali weekly, Samvad Kaumudi (1821).
  • Persian weekly, Mirat-ul-Akbar.