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Rammohun Roy was one of the greatest figures of early modern India. He was born in 1772 into a Brahmin family in Bengal and campaigned for political and social reform and for the modernisation of Hinduism throughout his life. Rammohun Roy was a major writer in Bengali, English, Persian and Sanskrit. In 1828 he founded the Brahmo Samaj religious movement which is still active today. The Mughal emperor Akbar II appointed him ambassador to Great Britain. Rammohun Roy came to England in 1830 and in September 1833 travelled to Bristol to visit Dr Lant Carpenter, minister at the Lewin's Mead Unitarian Meeting House. He stayed at the house of Miss Castle at Stapleton but fell ill and died of a fever, probably meningitis, on the 27th September. His tomb in Arnos Vale Cemetery was designed in 1843 by William Prinsep.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Bristol
Title
Rajah Rammohun Roy (1772–1833)
Date
c.1832
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 236 x W 144.9 cm
Accession number
K13
Acquisition method
gift from Miss A. Kiddell to the Bristol Institution (forerunner of the City Museum), 1841, transferred to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, 1905
Work type
Painting
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Queens Road, Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RL England
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