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Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj, 1828. Ram Mohan Roy, also written as Rammohun Roy, or Raja Ram Mohun Roy (1772-1833), was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the first Indian socio-religious reform movements. He campaigned for the abolition of sati (suttee) the Hindu custom where a widow sacrifices herself on her husband's funeral pyre. A lithograph from L'Inde Français, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere.