Google celebrates social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy 246th birth anniversary

Raja Ram Mohan Roy's most significant contribution as a social engineer was towards women's rights. He opposed the regressive practice that forced a widow to immolate herself on husband's pyre.  

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He opposed the regressive practice that forced a widow to immolate herself on husband's pyre. 

The doodle on Roy, created by Beena Mistry, a designer based out of Toronto, shows Roy speaking at a public meeting with his detractors in the background. There is also the presence of a woman among the audience, this is at a time when the purdah system was rigidly followed. 

He campaigned for equal rights for women, including the right to remarry and the right to hold property. 

In 1830, he travelled to the UK as the Mughal Empire's envoy to ensure that Lord William Bentinck's law banning the practice of Sati was not overturned.

Roy was also one of the pioneers of Indian journalism. He published several journals in Bengali, Persian, Hindi and English to propagate social reforms. 

Bengali weekly Samvad Kaumudi was the most important journal that he published. The Atmiya Sabha published an English weekly called the Bengal Gazette and a Persian newspaper called Miratul-Akbar.

Roy died in a village near Bristol in England on September 26, 1833 of meningitis, and was buried there.