‘religion’ in the Christian sense. De Roover presents ‘the Hindu reformer’ Raja Rammohun Roy as one the prime examples of those who actively applied the scriptural approach to Hinduism to rid it of its ‘ills’ in the interest of ‘social reform’. Under this approach, Roy treated the Vedas as the Hindu ‘Bible’ and attempted to draw structural parallels between the ‘Hindu religion’ and Christianity.
