Later he is said to have studied Persian and Arabic in a madrasa in Patna and after that he was sent to Benares to learn the intricacies of Sanskrit and Hindu scripture, including the Vedas and Upanishads. One view is that "Ram Mohan started his formal education in the village pathshala where he learned Bengali and some Sanskrit and Persian. The nature and content of Ram Mohan Roy's early education is disputed. He had two sons, Radhaprasad in 1800, and Ramaprasad in 1812 with his second wife, who died in 1824. Torn between these two parental ideals from early childhood, Ram Mohan vacillated between the two for the rest of his life. One parent prepared him for the occupation of a scholar, the Shastri, while the other secured for him all the worldly advantages needed to launch a career in the laukik or worldly sphere of public administration. He was a great scholar of Sanskrit, Persian and English languages and also knew Arabic, Latin and Greek. His father, Ramkanta, was a Vaishnavite, while his mother, Tarini Devi, was from a Shaivite family. Kulinism was a synonym for polygamy and the dowry system, both of which Rammohan campaigned against. Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the six families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century – those from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for living off dowries by marrying several women.
His great grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin. Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency. 2 Christianity and the early rule of the East India Company (1795–1828).
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