Raja Rammohun Roy : An Apostle of Indian Awakening (3 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Biographical aspects: Preface. 1. Autobiographical sketch. 2. Ram Mohun Roy/Rabindranath Tagore. 3. Rammohun Roy/Brajendranath Seal. 4. Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833)/D.N. Bannerjea. 5. Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 6. Raja Rammohan Roy/G. Paramaswaran Pillai. 7. Biographical sketch/Mary Carpenter. 8. Ram Mohan Roy/Manilal C. Parekh. 9. Ram Mohan Roy 1772-1833/F.B. Bradley-Birt. 10. Raja Ram Mohun Roy. 11. Rammohun Roy and Modern India/Ramananda Chatterjee. 12. Raja Ram Mohan Roy/C.F. Andrews. 13. Rajarshi Ram Mohan Roy/Manilal C. Parekh. 14. Rajah Rammohun Roy\'s Mission to England/Brajendranath Banerji. 15. Raja Rammohan Roy and his "Timour Mission"/J.K. Majumdar. 16. Visit to Bristol - the Rajah\'s death and interment/Mary Carpenter. 17. Traits of the Raja\'s character/R.N. Samaddar. 18. English impressions of Rammohun Roy--derived from documents which reached England before his visit/Mary Carpenter. 19. Some early American comment on Rammohun Roy. 20. Estimation of the Raja\'s worth/R.N. Samaddar. 21. Tributes to the Rajah\'s memory. 22. Anecdotes/R.N. Samaddar. 23. The Greatness of Rammohan Roy/F. Max Muller. 24. Sonnets on the interment of the Rajah Rammohun Roy at Stapleton grove. 25. Raja Ramohun Roy/Indira Gandhi. 26. Works of Rajah Rammohun Roy. Index.

Vol. II: Social Aspects: Preface. 1. Social reforms in the Brahmo Somaj/P.C. Mozoomdar. 2. Ram Mohun Roy as a social reformer. 3. Campaign against Sati/Upendra Nath Ball. 4. Conference between an advocate for and an opponent of, the practice of burning widows alive. 5. Suttees and duels. 6. Prevention of a Suttee. 7. Suttee--the burning of widows. 8. Sati-regulation XVII, A.D. 1829 of the Bengal code. 9. Number of Hindoo widows immolated on the funeral pyres of their husbands. 10. Bentinck\'s Minute on Sati. 11. Public activities/Manilal C. Parekh. 12. A pioneer journalist/Saumyendranath Tagore. 13. Ram Mohun Roy as a journalist/Brajendra Nath Banerji. 14. Freedom of the press. 15. Rammohun Roy and English intellectuals/S.N. Ray. 16. In the school of practical life and of Western civilization/Manilal C. Parekh. 17. Ram Mohun Roy, 1772-1833 -- the father of Modern India/H.V. Hampton. 18. Rammohun Roy and western education/G.L. Chandavarkar. 19. To his excellency the right honourable Lord Amherst, Governor-General of India in Council. 20. Rammohun\'s Universal humanism/Brajendranath Seal. 21. Economic reform/Saumyendranath Tagore. 22. Indian peasantry. 23. Brahmo Samaj and Freedom Movement/A.C. Banerji. Index.

Vol. III: Religious and Judicial Aspects: Preface. 1. Raja Rammohan Roy - founder of a Universal religion 1772-1833/P.K. Sen. 2. Rammohun Roy on religious freedom and social equality/Brajendra Nath Banerji. 3. Raja Rammohun Roy\'s religion/S.C. Roy. 4. A defence of Hindoo Theism/Rammohun Roy. 5. Humble suggestions. 6. Defence of Hindu Theism/Upendra Nath Ball. 7. Essential religion of the Brahmo Somaj/P.C. Mozoomdar. 8. Foundation of the Brahma Samaj/Upendra Nath Ball. 9. The trust deed of the Brahmo Samaj. 10. Practical activities of the Brahmo Somaj/P.C. Mozoomdar. 11. List of Brahmo Missionaries. 12. Religious sympathies and affinities/Manilal C. Parekh. 13. A letter on the prospects of Christianity and the means of promoting its reception in India. 14. Ram Mohun Roy\'s views on Christianity. 15. Ram Mohun as a lawyer. 16. The judicial system of India. 17. The rights of women. 18. Hindoo law of inheritance. 19. Regulation III of 1828. 20. The revenue system of India. Index.

"Raja Rammohun Roy, a pioneer social, religious, and political reformer, is often called the father of modern India. He was a man of capacious powers of intellect, broad religious sympathies and a very powerful though genial personality. A man of sterling qualities, he was fully equipped with erudite scholarship. He presents a most instructive study for the New India of which he is a pioneer. In a fulsome tribute, R. Venkata Raman has said, "the Raja was distinctly different from the other Great Men of India before his day. In range of vision, in reach of sympathy, in versatility of power, in variety of activities, in co-ordination of interests and in coalescence of ideas... (he) is a unique figure in the history of India, if not in the annals of the race."

These volumes, it is hoped, will be well received by the academics and the scholarly community for making a serious study of Rammohun Roy." (jacket)