Editing Raja Ram Mohan Roy (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Ram Mohan Roy 49 Bedford Square blue plaque.jpg|thumb|[[Blue Plaque]] issued by the [[Greater London Council]] on the wall of house at the 49 Bedford Square, where Roy lived during his days in the UK.]]
Roy's commitment to English education and thought sparked debate between [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name ="Choudhuri">{{cite journal| last=Choudhuri |first=Indra Nath |title=Tagore and Gandhi: Their Intellectual Conflict and Companionship |journal=Indian Literature |volume=59 |number=2 |year=2015 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44478532 |pages=146–157|jstor=44478532 }}</ref> Gandhi objected to Roy's devotion to English education and thought and disallowing independent thinking by being overly supportive of the Western philosophical discourses.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sociopolitical Thought of Rabindranath Tagore|page=354|publisher=Sage|year=2020|isbn=978-9353885007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wA0IEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA354}}</ref> Tagore wrote a letter rejecting Gandhi's view, saying "[Roy] had the full inheritance of Indian wisdom. He was never a school boy of the West, and therefore had the dignity to be a friend of the West."<ref name ="Choudhuri"/>

In 1983, a full-scale Exhibition on Ram Mohan Roy was held in Bristol's Museum and Art Gallery. His enormous 1831 portrait by [[Henry Perronet Briggs]] still hangs there and was the subject of a talk by [[Max Muller]] in 1873. At Bristol's centre, on College Green, there is a full-size bronze statue of Raja by a modern [[Kolkata]] sculptor Niranjan Pradhan. Another bust by Pradhan, gifted to Bristol by Jyoti Basu, sits inside the main foyer of Bristol's City Hall.{{Citation needed|date = December 2018}}

A pedestrian path at Stapleton has been named "Rajah Rammohun Walk". There is a 1933 Brahmo plaque on the outside west wall of Stapleton Grove, and his first burial place in the garden is marked by railings and a granite memorial stone. His tomb and [[chhatri]] at Arnos Vale are listed as a Grade II historic site by [[English Heritage]] and attract many visitors today.{{Citation needed|date = December 2018}}