Author: Ramram Basu

Ramram Basu was born in 1751, in Chinsurah, Hooghly District in the present-day West Bengal state of India.He initially joined as the munshi (scribe) for William Chambers, a Persian interpreter at the Supreme Court in Kolkata. Then he worked as the munshi and Bengali teacher for Dr. John Thomas, a Christian missionary from England at Debhata in Khulna.created a number of original prose and poetical works, including Christastava, 1788; Harkara, 1800, a hundred-stanza poem; Jnanodaya (Dawn of Knowledge), 1800, arguing that the Vedas were fundamentally monotheist and that the departure of Hindu society from monotheism to idolatry was the fault of the Brahmins; Lippi Mata (The Bracelet of Writing), 1802, a miscellany; and Christabibaranamrta, 1803, on the subject of Jesus Christ.Despite his active engagement with Western missionaries and Christian texts, Basu remained a Hindu and died in Kolkata on 7 August 1813.