the better mode of spelling which we find him using in other works. We have also made some slight alterations in punctuation in some places, but never in places where the meaning might be in any way affected by an alteration of the signs. We have been obliged to give occasional foot notes in order to introduce some of these essays and tracts, and to explain the circumstances under which they were written. In some places we have also given notes to elucidate facts referred to by the author which are now well nigh forgotten, as well as to throw additional light upon certain passages in this volume, in the hope that they might be found interesting. With few exceptions the tracts and essays inserted in this volume are reprinted from the works published by the Raja himself during his life-time. The Prospects of Christianity in India' we have taken from a pamphlet published in London in 1825, containing the whole correspondence on the subject between Rev. Dr. Ware, Ram Mohun Roy, and Rev. Mr. Adam. The petition on English Education to Lord Amherst may be found in a pamphlet on the 'Education of the people of India' by Sir Charles Trevelyan, as well as in Babu Raj Narayan Bose's Essay on the Hindu College. It was sent by Ram Mohun Roy to Bishop Heber to be put into the hands of Lord Amherst who again handed it over to the Education Committee. It was published in the Gyananweshun, and selected portions of it were inserted in 1834 in the Asiatic Journal Vol. XV., p. 136. The petitions against the Press Regulation are reprinted from a copy of the original petition with annexures which was sent to England. We have inserted them among the works of Raja Ram Mohun Roy for they are generally known to be so, and for the reason that they are written in a style which was Ram Mohun Roy's own, and what is more, the feeling of patriotism and the good sense displayed in them are such as no body in India at that time, whether he was an Englishman or a Hindu, was capable of. Moreover we find them included in the list of the Raja's works made by Chunder Sekhur Deb, as well as in the list prepared by Ramaprasad Roy. There are some essays in which the names of other persons such as Prosunno Kumar Tagore, Chunder Sekhur Deb, and others appear as their authors. But it is well-known that Ram Mohun Roy was fond of writing under fictitious names, and especially of giving the names of his friends to his works. There is no doubt that tracts of this nature which we have published are Ram Mohun Roy's, as we have got the authority of Chunder Sekhur Deb in some cases, and as most of them are included in the abovementioned lists. We have also got other contemporaneous evidence regarding the authorship of some of these tracts. The tract entitled "The Answer of a Hindoo &c." which is signed by Chunder Sekhur Deb, was sent by Mr. W. Adam in a letter dated Calcutta, January 18th, 1828, to Dr. Tuckerman of Boston, as a new composition of Ram Mohun Roy. The "Humble Suggestion" is included in the list of Ramaprasad Roy, and the hand of Ram Mohun Roy is so palpable there that we have heard nobody doubting that it is a production of Ram Mohun Roy. In the Appendix to this volume we have inserted an address to Lord William Bentinck, and a petition to the Privy Council on the abolition of the Suttee. We have every reason to believe from their style and the sentiments conveyed in them, that they were written by Ram Mohun Roy, but as we have got no direct evidence regarding their authorship, we have published them in the Appendix. We have also put in the Appendix the famous Trust Deed of the Brahmo Somaj. It was mostly drafted by attorneys, but there is no doubt that the celebrated passages containing the object of the trust in words which will ever remain memorable for the broad and catholic spirit which they breathe, were Ram Mohun Roy's own. These works have been obtained chiefly from the Adi Brahmo Somaj, and from the collection of Ram Mohun Roy's works in the possession of Dr. Mohendra Lal Sircar, to whom our thanks are due. Some Tracts and Essays have been kindly sent to us by Miss Collet from England, and a few have been searched out from the public libraries of Calcutta. In this place we should mention that we are indebted to Miss Collet more than to any other person for the interest she has taken and the help she has rendered to us in our undertaking. Our thanks are also due to Mr. Anund Mohun Bose for the help and encouragement he has given us. One name remains to be mentioned. No one has laboured more or made greater sacrifice for preserving the works of Ram Mohun Roy from being lost and forgotten than Babu Eshan Chunder Bose. He it was who collected these works, and employed me, I may say, to edit them. Even in editing I have received considerable help from him. In fact the credit of this publication entirely belongs to him. BHOWANIPORE, August 31, 1885. } JOGENDRA CHUNDER GHOSE. A list of the principal works of Raja Ram Mohun Roy in chronological order, CONTENTS. 1. Translation of an Abridgment of the Vedant, or Resolution of all the Veds; the most celebrated and revered Work of Brahmunical Theology; establishing the Unity of the Su- preme Being, and that He alone is the object of Propitiation 2. Translation of the Moonduk Oopunishud of the Uthurvu-Ved... 3. Translation of the Cena Oopanishad, one of the Chapters of ... Page. 1 21 ... 37 49 71 4. Translation of the Kut'h-Opunishud of the Yajoor-Ved ✓5. Translation of the Ishopunishud, one of the Chapters of the Yajoor-Ved 6. A Translation into English of a Sunscrit Tract, inculcating the Divine Worship; esteemed by those who believe in the Revelation of the Veds, as most appropriate to the Nature of 8. A Second Defence of the Monotheistical System of the Veds; 10. The Universal Religion: Religious Instructions founded on 11. The Brahmunical Magazine or the Missionary and the Brah- 13. Answer of a Hindoo to the question, "Why do you frequent |