History of the Brahma Samaj

Sen gives himself to other new activities; such as the foundation of the Bharat Ashram the Adult Female School the revived Brahmo School the revived Sangat Sabha the revived Society of Theistic Friend: ; the establishment of the Missionary Conference the opening of a new institution called the Brahma Niketan the conversion of the Indian Mirror into a daily paper ; and the publiction of a [...] The junior students " writes the biographer of David Hare " caught from the senior students the infection of ridiculing the Hindu religion and where they were required to utter mantras or prayers they repeated lines *from the The comittee of the college where the Hindu element preponderated passed repeated resolutions during the years 1829-1830 to warn the students as well as the teachers [...] It failed to evole on the one hand the sympathy of the European residents of the town and on the other hand the co-operation of many among the educa-" 38 HISTORY OF THE BRAH1110 SA 4/1A/ ted natives. [...] The service that Ram Mohun Roy rendered to the cause of the suppression of Suttee lay in strengthening the hands of the Government by proving from ancient Hindu Scriptures that selimmolation of a widow is nowhere enjoined as a duty and that a life of piety and self-abnegation was considered more virtuous points on which the Governor-General based the preamble of the antSuttee decree. [...] In 1823 the first Council of Education was appointed and the lakh of rupees that had been set apart from 1813 for the encouragement of learning among the native races was placed in the hands of the Council for the furtherance of eduction.