Ram Mohan was an ardent advocate of western education through the medium of English. In a letter, dated 11 December, 1823, to Lord Amherst, he wrote, “we now find that the Government is establishing a Sanskrit school under Hindu pundits to impart knowledge as is already current in India. This seminary can only be expected to load the minds of the physical distinctions of little or no practical use to the society.... The Sanskrit system of education would be best calculated to keep this country in darkness .... But as the improvement of the British native population is the object of the Government it will consequently promote a more liberal and enlightened system of instruction, embracing mathematics, natural philosophy, chemistry and anatomy with other useful sciences which may be accomplished with the sum proposed by employing a few gentlemen of talent and learning educated in Europe, and providing a college furnished with the unnecessary books, instruments and other apparatus.” He protested social evils like idolatry, child marriage, Sati system. ....Read more