Ram Mohun Roy was an Indian scholar who set up educational societies.
I would think the author is speaking about an political event in which people vote.
August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment gave women the right to vote for things. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. IT took decades to achive this. Decades of agitation and protest.
<span>The Democratic party was seen as to blame for this Panic. The Specie Circular, implemented under Jackson and Van Buren, was seen as the major driver of the inflation and price increases that led to the Panic of 1837. This led to restrictions on credit, less borrowing, and therefore, bank failures. In addition, farmers were having trouble meeting their loan terms, due to the inflation on their farm products, and were losing their lands to larger, wealthier farmers. All this led to a Panic that lasted until the mid-1840s.</span>
They wanted to form their own way