With reference to modern Indian history consider the following statements 1 Raja Rammohan ...........

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With reference to modern Indian history, consider the following statements :

1. Raja Rammohan Roy published A Gift to deists(Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhddin) in 1800.

2. He set up the Society of Friends in Calcutta to propagate the Polytheism ideals.

3. He was against Vedanta as he declared Vedanta is unreasonable and contains non-rationalist ideas.

How many of the statements given above are correct ?

Only one

Only two

Only three

None

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Explanation :

Raja Rammohan Roy(1772-1883)

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the father of Modern India’s Renaissance and a tireless social reformer who inaugurated the age of enlightenment and liberal reformist modernisation in India.
Religious reforms:
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s first published work Tuhfat-ul-Muwahhiddin (a gift to deists) published in 1803 exposed irrational religious beliefs and corrupt practices of the Hindus as the belief in revelations, prophets, miracles etc.
- In 1814, he founded Atmiya Sabha in Calcutta to campaign against idolatry, caste rigidities, meaningless rituals and other social ills.
- He criticized the ritualism of Christianity and rejected Christ as the incarnation of God. In Precepts of Jesus (1820), he tried to separate the moral and philosophical message of the New Testament, which he praised, from its miracle stories.
- He propagated the monotheistic ideals of the Vedanta as he was strongly influenced by rationalist ideas of it.
Social reforms:
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy conceived reformist religious associations as instruments of social and political transformation.
  - He founded the Atmiya Sabha in 1814, the Calcutta Unitarian Association in 1821, and the Brahmo Sabha in 1828 which later became the Brahmo Samaj.