section_path: National variations/India
section_name: India
paragraph_text: India
  
  In 18th-century India, Tipu Sultan was an enlightened monarch, who "was one of the founding members of the (French) Jacobin Club in Seringapatam, had planted a liberty tree, and asked to be addressed as 'Tipu Citoyen, ' " which means Citizen Tipu. In parts of India, an important movement called the " Bengal Renaissance " led to Enlightenment reforms beginning in the 1820s. Ram Mohan Roy was a reformer who "fused different traditions in his project of social reform that made him a proponent of a 'religion of reason. ' "