Major Reforms and Celebrations of September 27

Do you know today is World Tourism Day. Take a look at the blog to know other important events of this day.

Society and its patriarchal effects have always made women endure under it. There are many things through which women are going on the name of societal notions and myths. Read the article to know about the social worker who is entitled as Father of Modern India who has worked a lot for the benefits of women

The Maker of Modern India: Raja Ram Mohan Singh

(Raja Ram Mohan Roy)

Raja Ramkanto Roy was a great scholar of Sanskrit, Persian and English languages who also knew Arabic, Latin, and Greek and was born on 22nd May 1772 in Radhanagar, Bengal. His early education began in the village school where he picked up Bengali and some Sanskrit. Later on, he also joined a madrasa in Patna where he studied Persian and Arabic which was followed by a trip to Varanasi where he studied Vedas and the Upanishads. In the 18th century, he helped many Englishmen who worked in the East India Company, while continuing his work as a Brahmin scholar in the English courts where he studied Greek as well as Latin. From 1803 to 1815, he worked as a private clerk in Appellate Court at Murshidabad. Between 1810 and 1820, he published numerous works on a wide range of subjects including religion and politics. In 1830, Rammohan Roy traveled to the United Kingdom as an ambassador of the Mughal Empire to ensure the banning of Sati Pratha. In 1831, he was titled with Raja in his name by Mughal Emperor Akbar II as he persuaded the government to increase the Mughal Emperor’s stipend by £30,000.

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SOCIAL REFORM

(An image of Sati Pratha)

In 1828, he set up the Brahmo Samaj, a reformist movement of the Hindu religion that aimed at fighting social evils in the society. He opposed superstitious practices, customs such as Sati, polygamy, child marriage, the rigidity of the caste system and sought property inheritance rights for women. As a result of his hard work in fighting Sati, the governor of Bengal, Lord William Bentinck, formally banned the practice on December 4, in the year 1829.

EDUCATIONAL REFORM

Raja Ram Mohan Roy regarded education as an effective tool to achieve social reform, and hence introduced western learning in India. He set up several institutions including the Hindu College in Calcutta in 1817, the Anglo-Hindu School in 1822, and the Vedanta College, a synthesis of western and Indian learning, in 1826. He also helped establish the Scottish Church College in 1830. His journal, the Sambad Kaumudi that touched upon various topics was very popular. He started the first Bengali language weekly newspaper and also the first newspaper in an Indian language. His newspaper Sambad Koumudi helped people form an opinion about the issues affecting their daily life in British India. Gopal Krishna Gokhale called him the ‘Father of Modern India’. Several historians consider him as one of the pioneers of the Indian Renaissance. He was a nonconformist to regressive traditions. Raja Ram Mohan Roy finally took his last breath on September 27, 1833, in England where he was dealing with Meningitis.

Other events of this Day

1. 1905 – Albert Einstein ‘Miracle Year’

(Albert Einstein)

September 27 marks the centennial of the most famous equation in the world, the E=mc². On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein submitted the paper that laid out the formula. Einstein’s E=MC square elaborates that energy is part equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. So a very small amount of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

2. 1923 –  Death Anniversary of S R Ranganathan 

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan was a librarian and mathematician from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification.

3. World Tourism Day

Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day as international observances on September 27. Its purpose is to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political, and economic value.

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