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

The Young Bengal Movement

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The activities of the Young Bengal Movement

Derozio

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,

The Young Bengal Movement ; History of India(part:2)

 The Young Bengal Movement

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Beginning of the Young Bengal Movement:

  

The student of the Hindu College used to take lesson from Derozio, after finishing their daily routine class, All the students of the Hindu College  got idea about the ideologies of the then eminent scholars of the World,  very soon people of India could Know about the knowledgeable students of the Hindu College, The people who were real searchers of knowledge used to come to Derozio and his students for imbibing secular and modern logical knowledge , Thus within a very short time most of the learned people became secular and logical

Contribution of the Dirozio:

 

11)  He taught the students very modern international ideologies

 2) He was successful to eradicate all kind of superstations      from   the learned person and his students.

 3) He taught students to

A)  Defining ideology and way of life by free thinking

B)  Not to follow any culture blindly without judging them

C)   Grasping the truth in life and death

D)  Follow all the honesty

E)   Avert all the dishonesty and injustice

Death of Derozio:

Derozio got a very short life of 23 years, but he opened a new world to his students, They clutched the honesty and struggle against the superstitions and injustice, So he is the founder of Bengali Renesans ,

The successors of Derozio/ Other Member of Young Bengal Movement 

After death of Derozio  his students and other member of the movement had continued that movement, among them some were Tarachand Chakrabarty, Roshik Krishno Mallik, Dakkhina Ranjan Mukharjee, Ramgopal Ghosh, Mohen Benarjee were in leading, after some silence period , Mikle Modhusudhan Datta, Raj Narayan boshu and Bhudeb Mukharjee come to lead, They continued the Movement and aggravated the Hindu Widow Marriage Movement,

The Language Movement in 21, February, 1952, Recognized by UNESCO as World Wide Celebration (part:5)

 The mother tongue

The Language movement made a deep and far reaching impact on the cultural, economical, political life of Bengali people, we are discussing today the political impact,
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Cultural impact: 

1) Establishment of  Bangla Academy & Literary Conference: Bangla academy was founded on 3, December.1955, at Burdwan House, Dhaka, was the outcome of the language movement of 1952, and as such, a symbol of the movement and of Bengali nationalism, since its inception, it has been playing a significant role in the development and modernization of  Bangla,

 Bangla Academy

In 1954, A Literary conference was held by the efforts of teachers & students of the Bangla department of Dhaka University & it was inaugurated by Dr.Mohammed Shahabuddin,

  2)  Spread & practice of mass-song: One of the result of Language movement is mass song was sung, among them ‘amar vayer roke rangano ekushe February’ (My brothers blood spattered) ,’Ora amar mukher kotha’( they are my words), especially mentionable ,

  3) Establishment of Shaheed Minar: The language movement gave us Shaheed Minar which is now served as the place of national unity, dignity & cultural harmony, it was established to commemorate those  killed during the language movement, of 1952, it stands sd a symbol of the linguistic struggle of Bangladesh,

 Shaheed Minar

 4) Practice of Secular & progressive cultural activities: During the post language movement period, secular & Progressive cultural activities was gained priorities, with the falling of Muslim league secular literature & cultural girth were gained expansion and still those secular activities are exist,

The Young Bengal Movement ; History of India(part:1)

The Young Bengal Movement

 

Introduction:

The young Bengal movement is known as “New Bengal Movement” to some historians also, It began in the first half of 19^th 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,