Madhya Pradesh Higher Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar has triggered a fresh controversy with his remarks about 19th-century social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, whom he called a “British agent”.

Speaking at a Birsa Munda Jayanti event in Agar Malwa, Parmar claimed that the British had created “fake social reformers” to serve their agenda, and named Roy among them.

“Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a British agent. He worked as their broker in the country. There was a vicious cycle of religious conversions that he started,” Parmar said, adding, “If anyone had the courage to stop it and protect tribal society, it was Birsa Munda.”

The minister further claimed that during the British era, missionary schools were the only educational institutions available, and that they used education as a cove

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