Correct option is D
- In collaboration with David Hare and Alexander Duff, Raja Ram Mohan Roy established Hindu College at Calcutta in 1817.
- In1825, Raja Ram Mohan Roy established Vedanta college where courses in both Indian learning and Western social and physical sciences were offered.
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the social reformer who worked hard for the abolition of this 'Sati ' ritual.
Ram Mohan Roy was given the title of 'Raja' by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor, who sent him to England to represent him. - He started India’s first English medium school in 1816 in Kolkata that later came to be known as the Anglo-Hindu school.
Roy founded the Brahmo Samaj in 1828. - This move is often credited with playing an important role in reforming and modernizing Indian society.
He is often called the 'Father of Indian Renaissance. Freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale called Roy the 'Father of Modern India'. - Due to the fierce campaign and lobbying of Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others, Sati practice was formally banned in all the land sunder Bengal Presidency by Lord William Bentinck on 4 December 1829.
