In 1825, who founded the Vedanta College in which courses both in Indian learning and in Western social and physical sciences were offered?

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  1. Aurobindo Ghosh
  2. Ram Mohan Roy
  3. Iswarchandra Vidyasagar
  4. Swami Vivekanand 

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Option 2 : Ram Mohan Roy
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The correct answer is Raja Ram Mohan Roy.

  • The Vedanta College was founded by the social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the year 1825.

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  • Vedanta College offered courses that combined traditional Indian learning with Western scientific studies
  • He was also responsible for setting the two other educational institutions.
  • They were Hindu College (1822) and  Maha Pathshala (1825).
  • Vedanta offers perpetual and universal principles of life and existence.
  • The inception of this college was a part of his reformist policies, whereby he tried to proclaim his teachings of Hindu monotheism.
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