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Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from the Worst Ever Education Disaster

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  Rammohan, Sanskrit, English Education and the Rescuer from   the Worst Ever Education Disaster Allegations: Certain Social Media writers accuse Rammohan for “Killing Sanskrit”, “Adopting English Education”, “Macaulay being inspired by Rammohan” etc. All these accusations started after reading a letter that Rammohan wrote when the British allocated some budget for India’s education of which much of the funds were to be spent for establishing a Sanskrit College in Calcutta.  Rammohan, in his letter, discouraged British to establish the Sanskrit College. He wrote that if British wanted Indians to be in “darkness” then they should establish the Sanskrit College. The ”wanna-be-scholars”(WBS) in social media and certain book writers never mention that in the same letter Rammohan requested that if the Britishers truly cared for Sanskrit then they should support existing Sanskrit Schools run by Hindu Pandits. The WBS never cared to explain or understand about Rammohan’s intention. Here some
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Hindu Nationalism, Sanskrit the National Language and Bengali Writers' Visions

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  Hindu Nationalism, Sanskrit the National Language and Hindu Bengali Writers' Visions Rammohun Roy, Bankimchandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore (re-)construct a glorious past of the Hindu nation on the basis of Sanskrit literature (van Bijlert present volume).  What were the reasons and motivations for the Bengali Hindu intellectuals to use Sanskrit texts as an ideological basis for nation building? In what follows we will take up for examination writings by Rammohun Roy, Bankimchandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore, three famous and influential Bengali authors whose writing career spans almost a century. They all wrote on Hindu religion and the Indian nation. As to Indian culture and the nation, the following motivations and assumptions can be extracted from many Bengali and English texts of that period: (a) gaining respect and self-respect, (b) the antiquity of Sanskrit, (c) the classical character of Sanskrit literature, (d) apparent universal extension of Sanskrit ove
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First Indian to envision Home Rule - An independent India and First Revolutionary to Revolt against British

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  Celebrating 250 th Birth Anniversary of Rajarshi Rammohan Roy   First Indian to envision Home Rule - An independent India and First Revolutionary to Revolt  against  British Who was Rajarshi Rammohan Roy? Part 5 of 6 2 nd Edition - January 2, 2023, by Sri Bandyo   Highlights:   ·          First Indian to envision Home Rule - An independent India ·          The 'Father of Indian Journalism' ·          First revolutionary to fight British   ·          Sowed seeds for all types of required movements ·          First to estimate EIC's draining money out of India ·          Raja Rammohan Ray: The Father of Modern India       First Indian to envision Home Rule - An independent India Ram Mohan’s English biographer rightly observes that he “presents a most instructive and inspiring study for the new India of which he is the type and pioneer. He embodies the new spirit, its freedom, its large human sympathy, its pure and sifted ethic
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