Raja Ram Mohan Roy

A Selection of Essays for Sociology

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Photo Credit: Rembrandt Peale, 1833. Source: Peabody Essex Museum. Description: Half-portrait oil painting of Ram Mohan Roy, painted by Rembrandt Peale in 1833. Roy and Peale met in London, a few days before Roy's death according to John Quincy Adams. Roy wears a red and gold turban common to early 19th-century Bengali Hindus.