
About the Author Shomik Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, IndoreShomik Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore. Product Description Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate and enquiry, scholars are still not quite sure whether he was a consistent and articulate political thinker, or a man of intellectual compromise and paradox. This book argues that Rammohun was a consistent thinker who creatively responded to the political challenges of the East India Company's government in India by reading deeply into Sanskritic and Indo-Persian intellectual traditions to develop a political thought of his own.Rammohun's political thought was concerned with three distinct but related themes: i) the restructuring of the East India Company's administration from a distant and invisible government at London to Calcutta; ii) the importanceof ethical practice in Bengali society; and iii) the legal and ethical obligation of the Company to be accountable to its subjects. Rammohun consistently stressed the importance of societal ethics and highlighted the consequencesof the distance between London and Bengal on governmental accountability. A unity of thought can thus be identified in his work.
This book investigates whether Rammohun Roy was a consistent political thinker or a figure defined by intellectual compromise and paradox. Dr. Shomik Dasgupta, an Assistant Professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, utilizes a rigorous analysis of Roy's engagement with Sanskritic and Indo-Persian traditions to argue for a unified political framework. The text posits that Roy's work was a deliberate, creative response to the administrative and ethical challenges posed by the East India Company's governance in India.
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Scholars and historians view this work as a significant contribution to the re-evaluation of colonial-era intellectual history. The text is noted for its academic rigor and its success in synthesizing complex political themes into a coherent argument regarding Roy's consistency as a thinker.
Page Count:
246
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190129123
ISBN-13:
9780190129125
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