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A quick explainer for people saying silly things about Ram Mohun Roy: in that period (18th-19th c), faced with a combination of extreme orthodoxy, social malevolence and oppression, many reformers aimed at theological overlap and unity to rid social evils. As Lynn Zastoupil wrote
in the 2002 paper 'Defining Christians, Making Britons: Rammohun Roy and the Unitarians', "Rammohun's religious development led him toward a universal theism that owed something to Islamic rationalist, Hindu Vedanta, and radical Christian traditions.
The extent of his debt to these distinct traditions is still debated" and perhaps will always be debated. Some silly people use this to make claims suggesting that Roy was "anti-Hindu", some sort of Trojan horse. That's like saying Subhas Bose was fascist as Communists always
claim - this is the sort of nuance-free history only propagandists thrive in. One really cannot take such conspiracy theories seriously. Roy was one of the pioneers of modern India and had an immense contribution to the making of the modern Indian mind. This does not take away
from earlier kings who discarded and banned sati. But to insist on vilifying is just foolishness.
