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Critically comment in 150 words: “The chief value of Raja’s (Raja Rammohan Roy) labours seems to lie in his fight against the forces of medievalism in India.”

  • UPSC 2017
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Raja Rammohan Roy's enduring value lay less in founding institutions than in dismantling a medieval worldview through reasoned argument.

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