Sophia Dobson Collet was devoted to Sadharan Bramho Samaj and a great disciple of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. She wrote about Raja Ram Mohan Roy and tried to collect every critical news about the Bramho movement worldwide. This collection has 58 volumes of newspaper cuttings and handwritten notes created by Sophia Dobson Collet. Related regions, towns/cities provided by project holder: Bengal; Himachal Pradesh; Karnataka; Uttar Pradesh; Bihar; Meghalaya; South India; Sindh; Northern India; Lahore; Punjub; Deccan; Maharashtra; Odisha; Gujarat. Kolkata; Simla; Kanpur; Bengaluru; Bogra; Gaya; Dacca; Bhawanipur; Burdwan; Allahabad; Mumb; Hyderabad; Karachiai; Bolton; Mangaluru; Ghazipur; Poona; Lahore; Roopur; Shillong; Kaira; Bombay; Narail; Chinchura; Naihati; Howrah; Cuttack; Narayangunge; Khetwadi; Solhapour; Madras.
Extent: 58 volumes of newspaper cutting collage, handwritten notes.
Custodial history: Sophia Dobson Collet (1 February 1822 – 27 March 1894) was a 19th-century English writer and thinker. She was influenced by Rammohun Roy in her early life and became interested in the activities of Brahmo Samaj and the Hindu reform movements in India. Collet meticulously collected material on the activities of the Brahmo Samaj from different sources and published several books on Brahmo Samaj including the Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy, which was published by F. H Stead after her death in 1900 and considered as the most detailed and accurate account on Roy’s life and work. The private papers of Sophia Dobson Collet came under the custody of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, Kolkata.
Arrangement: Arranged choronologically by the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj Library.
Author(s)/Creator(s): Sophia Dobson Collet.
Scribe(s): Sophia Dobson Collet.
Editor(s): Sophia Dobson Collet.
