Answer» Correct Answer - Option 2 : Rani Rashmoni
The correct answer is Rani Rashmoni. - Rani Rashmoni left an indelible mark on Calcutta way back in the early 19th century.
- She built the famous Dakshineswar Kali Temple.
- She was born on 28 September 1793 at a village in Halishahar, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.
- Rani Rashmoni was also known as a feisty and defiant lady.
- Her clashes with the English East India Company are legendary.
- The officials had no choice but to bow down to the wishes of Rani Rashmoni and withdrew the imposed tax on the fishing. Only then, she removed the iron chains from the river.
| Kamini Roy | - She was a Bengali poet, educator, and activist.
- She was the first woman honors graduate in British India.
- She was the president of the Bengali Literary Conference in 1930.
| | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | - He is often called the 'Father of Indian Renaissance'.
- Freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale called Roy the 'Father of Modern India'.
- Ram Mohan Roy was given the title of 'Raja' by Akbar II, the Mughal emperor, who sent him to England to represent him.
- Roy was opposed to idol worship and the orthodox rituals of Hinduism. He championed scientific temper and faced a backlash for his views.
- Roy translated the Vedas and Upanishads into Bengali, Hindi, and English and wrote summaries and treatises on them.
- He started India’s first English medium school in 1816 in Kolkata that later came to be known as the Anglo-Hindu school.
- He founded the Brahmo Samaj in 1828.
| | Kadambini Ganguly | - She was one of the first women graduates from India and the entire British Empire, who moved on to become one of the first female physicians trained in western medicine in the whole of South Asia.
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