The Young Bengal Movement
The young Bengal movement is
known as “New Bengal Movement” to some historians also, It began in the first
half of 19th century, the Hindu College was established in Kolkata
in 1818-19 after establishing the Fort Willium College (1880-1802), one of the
bright students of that college was
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831),After completing his Degree Derizio was appointed as a teacher
of that college. He was the founder of the ‘Young Bengal Movement’, that was a
period when Renesans took Place in all over the Europe, Besides , the French
Revolution and industrial revolution winded the Indian educated people,
particularly the educated people of Kolkata vividly. But then the people of India
were under the British Rule, so they
were fumbling some way of people’s welfare and educational revolution, The
people of Kolkata, who got education were fervently thinking about mass
education, free thinking and freedom of India,
The student of Hindu College
earned the modern and European education. They learned the thought and ideology
of Jhon Stuart Mill, Herbert Spenser, Benthum, Francis Bacon, Gibbon and other
eminent social scientists of the western world, so their thinking and idea was
much progressive then the other people of Kolkata, As a result, they made a
‘Discussion Society’ and began a movement of ‘Free thinking and free
Expression’ which was known as ‘The Young Bengal Movement’
Derozio
Bengali Movement:
The common people , who were not
ecquainted with those ideologies,
Indicated those young as arrogant, revolutionists of the customary thinking,
belief, and extremist, they declared one
kind of war against the religion and prevalent customs,
Founder of the Young Bengal Movement:
Derozio was the founder of this
movement, though other some teachers and students occasionally did this type of
free discussion meeting earlier, his father was a Portuguese but mother was
Bengali, who lived in Kolkata, he studied in Mr.Dramond’s school in Dharmatola,
Kolkat, who was a free thinker and eminent educationist in that time,Derozio
was inspired in free thinking by that Scotch
teacher Mr, Dramond, after successfully completing his education he
joined as a teacher in ‘The Hindu college’ in 1826. He got only 5 years chance
of teaching before death,
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