INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MODERN INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Vivian Derozio had been associated with the____ movement.
A
Swadeshi
B
Back to the Vedas
C
Young Bengal
D
Young India
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vivian Derozio was an Indian teacher and poet. His influence lived on among his former students, who came to be known as Young Bengal and many of whom became prominent in social reform, law, and journalism. The Young Bengal group played a key role in the Bengal renaissance.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Young Bengal Movement was started by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, who had come to Calcutta in 1826 and was appointed in the Hindu College as a teacher of English literature and History.

Detailed explanation-3: -Derozio wanted to spread intellectual revolution among young students. This brought an intellectual revolution in Bengal called the Young Bengal Movement. His followers were also known as Derozians. Derozians attacked old traditions and decadent customs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was an Anglo-Indian who started a new wave of reformation movement in Bengal. He was a professor in the Hindu College of Calcutta who wanted to instil progressive and liberal ideas. Thus, he started the Young Bengal Movement along with his students.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.

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