Who described Raja Rammohun Roy as 'the inauguration of the modern age in India'?
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Correct answer: A. Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagore paid this tribute to Rammohun Roy (1772–1833), founder of the Brahmo Samaj, campaigner against sati and advocate of Western science and English education. Tagore saw him as the figure who opened India to modern rational and humanist thought — hence 'Father of the Indian Renaissance'.
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