The Young Bengal Movement ; History of India(part:3)

The Young Bengal Movement

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The activities of the Young Bengal Movement

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1) Publishing News Paper(Quarterly/Fortnightly/Weekly/Daily):

The Young Bengal Movement started publishing paper from 1828, they published

(a) Partenin (2) Gyananneshon (3) The Hindu Pioneer (4) Bengali spectator. Not only logical ideology was their prime subject, but also protesting of injustice of the British rule was a vital subject of the Young Bengal Movement, as they wrote in the paper the Hindu Pioneer titled “The India Under The Foreigners” where they mentioned that “ There is no place of people’s representative of India in Making law and in Legislative Assembly,

There is absolute right of the British in government job, disarray in justice, arrogance of the government officials, to much expenditure in administrative work, imposing too much tax on the Indian, habitual fact of the British of collecting money and property and to go back to England are such known subjects which does require to describe,

2) Protesting Injustice of the Government:

They protested in the paper ‘Gynanneshon’ in 1831, about the mass corruption of the British throughout India, they also suggested in the eradicating corruption to increase the salaries of the Munshefs (judge), this paper also protested the‘Permanent Settlement Act’, Moreover it suggested reforming the courts of the interior for averting the riots and instability of law and order situation, it strongly  protested the torture and bribing of the police,

     3)  Starting of Mass Education and its development: 

    the appealed for increasing of education and its development, ’ Akshoi Kumar Datta’ a member of this movement protested in 1855 for free compulsory education for the children till 15 years of age including women education also,

  4)  Appealing for Introducing Handicraft and Trade based Education and Training:

 

As the farmers were landless because of permanent settlement  act, so they appealed to the government for introducing practical oriented education and some training centres for the young men of the Bengal, they even mentioned some trade and technical education and mention their syllabus structures,

   5) Appealing for Hindu Widow marriage, Abolition of Child marriage, Polygamy and Abolition of Caste System:

The Young Bengal thought that the caste system in Hindu religion is the prime cause of all kind of injustice and superstation, besides, it was considered as the inhuman and cause of breaching of all the rights, so they campaigned among the people and appealed to the government to abolish this worst system, moreover, they campaigned for Hindu widow marriage, abolition of child marriage (which  was up to 9 years only) and more than one women marriage particularly by the Brahmeens,