File:Bust portrait of the Hindu reformer Ram Mohan Roy..jpg

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anonymous: Portrait of Raja Ram Mohan Roy  wikidata:Q100276753 reasonator:Q100276753
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Portrait of Raja Ram Mohan Roy
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Raja Ram Mohan Roy"
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Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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English: This Company Painting (a painting made by an Indian artist for the British in India) is a portrait of the Hindu reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772-1833). He came from a distinguished Brahmin family in Bengal. He entered the service of the East India Company and rose to high office, but eventually left to devote his time to the service of his people. Profoundly influenced by European liberalism, Ram Mohan came to the conclusion that Hinduism needed to be radically reformed. He preached equality for women and was active in the abolition of sati (widow burning). Ram Mohan came to England in 1831 as the ambassador of the Mughal emperor Akbar Shah II. On another visit to England he was taken ill with meningitis. He died on 27 September 1833 in Bristol, where he is buried. A statue of him was unveiled there in 1997. Sir Robert Nathan, who bequeathed the portrait to the V&A, probably purchased it from Muhammad Hussain, a judge of the Small Cause Court in Delhi. Nathan was Private Secretary to the Viceroy in Delhi in 1904-1905.
Depicted people Ram Mohan Roy Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1820
date QS:P571,+1820-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium gouache paint and ivory Edit this at Wikidata
institution QS:P195,Q213322
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IM.256-1921 (Victoria and Albert Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Delhi Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O16865/portrait-bust-portrait-of-the-hindu/

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