Raja Rammohan Roy, the Father of the Indian Renaissance, pioneered social reforms like Sati abolition. He founded the Brahmo Samaj and early Indian newspapers like Sambad Kaumudi, blending Western education with Indian philosophy to modernize 19th-century India.
Click to View MoreRassundari Devi (c. 1809–1890) was a 19th-century Bengali woman who wrote Amar Jiban (1876), the first autobiography by an Indian woman. Despite strict patriarchal restrictions against female literacy, she secretly taught herself to read, driven by a deep desire to read religious texts.
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