Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency. His father Ramkanta was a Vaishnavite, while his mother, Tarini Devi, was from a Shivaite family.
Thus one parent prepared him for the occupation of a scholar, the sastri, the other secured for him all the worldly advantages needed to launch a career in the laukik or worldly sphere of public administration. Torn between these two parental ideals from early childhood, Ram Mohan vacillated the rest of his life, moving from one to the other and back.
Ram Mohan Roy was married three times. His first wife early. He had two sons, Radhaprasad in 1800 and of Ramaprasad in 1812 with his second wife, who in 1824. Roy'* third wife outlived him.
Ram Mohan Roy'* early education is an disputed. One view is that "Ram Mohan started his formal education in the village pathshala where he learned Bengali and some Sanskrit and Persian. Later he is said to have studied Persian and Arabic in a madrasa in Patna and after that he was sent to Benares (Kashi) to learn the intricacies of Sanskrit and Hindu scripture, including the Vedas and Upanishads. The dates of his time in both these places are uncertain. However, it is believed that he was sent to Patna when he was nine years old and two years later to Benares."
The Persian and Arabic studies influenced his thinking about One more than studies of ***** deism, which he didn't know at least while writing his first scriptures as at that stage he didn't speak or understand English.
