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Raja Ram Roy's Visit to England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

K.A. Ballhatchet
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RajaRamRoy, the adopted son of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, went to England with his father. He remained there for several years after his father's death at Bristol in 1833.

In August 1835 Hobhouse, the President of the Board of Control, recorded that he had received an application on behalf of Raja Ram, ‘requesting that the opportunity may be afforded him previously to his return to his native country of acquiring an insight into the mode in which the public business is transacted in England’. The request appealed to Hobhouse, with his Whig and liberal sympathies, and at his recommendation Raja Ram was appointed an extra clerk in the offices of the Board of Control at a salary of £100 a year.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , February 1957 , pp. 69 - 71
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957

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page 69 note 1 J. C. Hobhouse, minute, 4 August 1835, Minutes of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India, VI,Google Scholar 460 f. India Office Library.

page 69 note 2 Board minute, 4 August 1835, ibid., 462.

page 69 note 3 Hobhouse, minute, 4 August 1835.

page 69 note 4 Calcutta Courier, 17 May 1836. The Act in question was the Act of 1833 which renewed the Company's Charter.

page 70 note 1 Auckland to Carnac, 28 May 1836, British Museum Add. MSS, 36473, 51 ff.

page 70 note 2 Carnac to Hobhouse, 21 November 1836, Home Misc. 835, 43 ff., India Office Library.

page 70 note 3 Hobhouse to Auckland, 30 November 1836, Home Misc. 837, 92.

page 70 note 4 Board minutes, VI, 486, 490.

page 70 note 5 Board minute, 26 February 1838, ibid., 512.

page 70 note 6 Hobhouse to Auckland, 30 November 1836, Home Misc. 837, 92.

page 70 note 7 Probably Alexander Ross, a civil servant on the Bengal establishment and First Ordinary Member of the Governor-General's Council. He retired on 15 October 1838. Buckland, C.E., Dictionary of Indian biography, London, 1906, 363.Google Scholar

page 71 note 1 Auckland to Hobhouse, 15 November 1838, B.M. Add. MSS, 36473, 351 f.

page 71 note 2 ibid.